#Share your daily fast story thread! 📃
     ⏳ Length of fast (start/end/total)
     ❓ Why are you fasting? (ex: weight loss, other health benefits, spiritual/religious reasons)
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OMAD, 3 days in.
Reasons : Health reasons (anti aging), was already fit.
I did a 2-3 week prep of skipping lunch. I was on a 3 meal a day schedule for years…and even with periods of eating between meals.
I also take 500mg Metformin but that’s another story. I’m not diabetic.
I was amazed that on my first OMAD day, I took a capillary glucose level and I was at 0.98g/L after 23h of fast. I’m barely feeling any hunger. And I already feel II have better cognitive performance. I had to stop my intensive sport activity (road cycling 4-5h once per week on weekends) due to lack of time. How should I approach cycling intensively next time ? Alimentation-wise ? (I’ll skip the Metformin the evening before)
Time to get back on track and cut the string on my yoyo. Starting a 4 day fast today. I’m also planning to kick the beer and go low carb for a while when i come out of it. I was doing 3 days a week before holidays, but I might try eating one me every other day. Just thought I’d write down my commitment to the 4 day. However, I’ve done 5 a few times and am only not doing 5 because I like to eat on weekends with my wife.
(F41/SW310/CW290/GW175)
In general i have been eating keto-ish for a while now. In mid January I did a 90hour+fast. . .basically dinner on Sunday until dinner on Thursday. The next week I did the same. It was hard, but fine. . . my weight dropped, then I gained a bit back and then i basically started again. Then last week I tried to do rolling 48s. . . so it was Sunday dinner until Tuesday dinner and then it was hard to start again so I ended up eating dinner on Wednesday and then again on Thursday. Then it was my son’s birthday this weekend, so i said screw it, but as I started to eat kind of anything i felt starving. . . like I could not get enough. Anyway, that was a terrible bump up in weight (i know mostly water, but some real weight to for sure.
Anyway, I ate dinner last night and then restarted. . . today is fine (water, black coffee, tea). . . my question is what is really a better plan to execute LONGER or rolling fasts?
I also seem to have a terrible dump syndrome situation so I need to be strategic about when I eat. . . TMI (for sure) but if i am in the 18+ hours of fasting and I eat I need to be near a bathroom within the hour. I have tried the avocado then wait an hour then some lightly cooked veggies, then wait and a piece of chicken. . . NOPE. . . last week rice helped, but then I feel like i am un-keto right off the fast, which saves me stomach problems, but I am not sure helps with the goal.