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My current regimen.

Hey ladies and gents! I’m looking for advice about my current regimen. Fasting: 48hrs from Sunday 4pm- Tuesday-4pm 48hrs Tuesday at 8pm until Thursday at 8pm. Friday fast until about 6pm. Eat whatever I want all weekend until Sunday at 4pm. This is my current cycle and it seems to be working well for weight loss, though sometimes I get a bit light headed by late Thursday afternoon. Any tips on improving weight loss and energy?

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Looks good! I’ve done a similar schedule in the past.

Electrolytes (if you’re not yet using them) could help with feeling light headed.

I found I wasn’t losing as steadily as I wanted and ended up tying it to my weekend consumption. When I made the weekend slightly more “in control” calorie-wise I saw more consistent loss.

After doing this schedule for a bit I ultimately found that I started practically inhaling food when I broke my fasts, and the scale would just break even after the 48s. That was a trigger to tell me that I needed to back off to OMAD or 20:4. It was slower loss but took the urgency out of eating.

Best of luck with your progress!

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I encourage you to look towards maintenance.

If, when you’re allowed to eat, you eat whatever you want the whole window long … what does that look like when you’re done fasting? What’s your healthy eating plan look like for the long run?