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Fasting while taking college classes?

Fall semester just started and I’m taking some classes that require a lot of brain power (like physics and anatomy). I really want to incorporate some 48-72 hour fasts, but I’m worried that it will affect my performance in school. Does anyone have experience with this? I will have four day weekends which I could experiment on, but I’ll still have a lot of graded homework and quizzes to be doing during that time.

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Check out this post I made about fasting and college.

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It’s an individual experience. I’ve seen several people on here mention unresolved brain fog or lack of energy while fasting. Personally, I study in a relatively intense field and I am 11 days into an extended fast without any issues.

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I did several 1-2 week fasts while in university. The first 2 days or so were difficult. After that I felt much more alert and actually felt that I performed slightly better.

I have chronic trouble staying awake in class or long un-engaging work meetings. When I was fasting, I never have a problem with that.

You could start in the weekends and see how you are doing, but honestly my biggest hurdle was social/roommate pressures. People wanted to go out, go to dinner, make dinners together, as well as the smell of food twice a day in my apartment made it the most difficult.