On Friday I completed a 6-day soft dry fast and I wanted to share my results. I’m also welcoming any ideas on how I can improve my results in my next fasts.
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Background
First off, I’d like to say that I have experience with water fasting (longest water fast was 25 days, with electrolytes). I started experimenting with dry fasting about 3 months ago. I would have started sooner, but I was scared by what I was reading at the other fasting subforums.
It took me a while to go over the first 24 hours without water, then 48 hours, and so on. Especially since my habit every morning was to drink 500 ml of water upon waking up, on both fasting and non-fasting days. I’m proud that DF has given me the power to quit that because it was throwing my electrolytes out of balance constantly.
The 6 days I completed is the longest I have dry fasted so far. Through DF I went from 132+ kg to 119 kg which is my current weight. For the record, I’m 165 cm, 32-years-old. So, I still have a long way to go.
Besides losing weight, I have a few issues I would like to hopefully cure or at least manage through DF. One of them is a droopy eyelid after an infection. The doctor told me that there is scar tissue in the eyelid which makes it droopy (so it’s not a muscle or neurological issue), and I would like to see if dry fasting will help with that because it also affects my confidence.
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What didn’t work
The problem with all my previous fasts was that I was not consistent after the refeeding process would end, and I would gain all the way back and then some more.
For this DF, I paid a lot of attention to not overdo it with calories, and to keep it low carb/keto. Also, contrary to the previous times, I did not allow myself to have a long “resting” period before starting the next fast.
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Results & Refeed
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Observations
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That’s all I have so far! I’m going to try to do more than 6 days for this DF round. In any case, I’ll be posting an update for the results.
If you have any suggestions on what could be improved, please feel free to share!
Good report.
Walking is great in so many ways so I would suggest more of it during your fasts.
Good luck on your next ones. It can be an up and down process so it helps to keep that in mind so you’re not discouraged. I’ve been fasting for a couple years now and by no means have it perfected. Refeeding and my diet inbetween fasts have normally been an issue for me. Do more updates if you will (and for anyone else reading), it helps to motivate me to do the same.
it appears losing weight is one of your motivations, depending on what you can in your lifestyle there are options for working out with optimal results: look into bfr training to get more squeeze out of your lifting sets, unilateral exercises to target muscles imbalances and to build muscle faster in conjunction with the bfr, pullups/dips/deadlifts/advanced pushups search yt, plyometrics and uphill cardio / sand terrain cardio.
equally important is your diet, too much protein can cause aminoacidemia, also if you’re loaded in carbs you’re never burning fat so understand your nutrition.
most importantly is resting and the repair and recovery utilizing ice and heat therapy, massage guns, foam rollers, lacrosse and tennis balls, full body stretching, hyperbaric oxygen chambers if you need results asap.
play around with hemp or cannabis gummies for faster recovery and try to get a professional massage once a while to cover your blind spots to avoid serious long term injuries especially at the neck and shoulder and ankle /knee areas .
good luck!