I fasted for 115 hours, with a low weight of 144.2. Broke fast, rolled right into a 96 hour fast, with a low weight of 142.2. Now I’m at 68 hours with a weight this morning of 143.8. It’s frustrating because I thought I’d be out of the 140s soon and I’m hungry and feeling unmotivated by seeming to hover around the same weight toward the ends of my fast. But, my period did start yesterday, could that have something to do with it?
Yes. Mine does. I recommend for the sake of your sanity, please stay off the scale while fasting until you reach the number of days you targeted to fast for.
Periods may play a role in the stalling of your weight loss but also keep in mind, the closer you are to your goal weight, the slower the pounds tend to come off as well. So you may have two factors working against you right now.
But I still strongly recommend staying off the scale because if the numbers are not moving as quickly as you’d like it will lead to exactly what you’re experiencing, loss of motivation and the desire to give up.
I thought I’d have this issue but I didn’t, weirdly enough.
I’ve been doing rolling 48s for the past two months. I lose between 2-3 lbs a week. Last week I lost nothing and this week I gained 2 lbs.
I know my body really holds onto fat, so I don’t mess around with any refeeding. I keep it light and simple. I’m still pretty far from my goals so this really sucked. Fasting is really my last hope for weight loss. Keto did NOT work for me.
I have no idea why after two months of the same-old-same-old, my body decided it would gain weight when I wasn’t eating.
Fat cells must be replicating on their own.
yes lol. No joke, I panic EVERY time I’m on my period because I gain 7lbs, freak out, then like 3 days after my period it disappears overnight, the water retention is real, not to mention our hormones.
I will still continue to panic every time though, its routine lol.
My body can’t handle too much fasting right before my period. It’s so much harder and I feel like my body is under so much more stress around that time and maybe that in combination with hormonal factors I hold onto water weight. I just stick to OMAD until a couple days into my period. Otherwise it feels like more torture just for less progress.
You have to understand that rapid weight fluctuations, either down or up, don’t mean anything.
To lose or gain fat, your body has to convert fat into energy or vice versa. Fasting allows your body to compensate your caloric deficit by (mostly) using fat reserves. But the thermodynamics of it don’t change: to lose a pound of fat, you need a caloric deficit of ~4000 kcal, and the opposite to gain a pound of fat.
All the rest is water, food in your digestive system, glycogen, etc. So I would encourage you to keep track of the calories you spend in a day by estimating your BMR and active kcals, and focus on that. All other fluctuations are just noise or temporary.
But more specifically, yes, some women tend to retain more liquid during their periods.
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