Definitely realistic.Worth noting. If you dry fast,
Dry fast 1day - 12h to drain the carbs 12h fat lossDry fast 2day - 12h drain carbs, 36h fat lossDry fast 3day - 12h drain carbs, 60h fat loss (also you get growth hormone boost)
In other words you get 1x, 3x, 5x fat loss for 1d,2d,3dSo you get a better pay back the more days you do.
If you do 2 1days every week, you will consistently lose 1kg a week (Which is still good)If you do 1 3day every week, you will lose around 3kg a week.
Also, be SURE to do HIIT tabata rowing once a day - to boost the hormones and make body metabollic. HIIT tabata means run a tabata timer in the background, and for 20 seconds, row as fast as you possilby can, trying to get a new record each time, then rest 10 seconds, then repeat another 8 cycles. The last 5 will be agony, and fel very slow and unpleasant, but every cycle you need to try to beat a new world record, you will ‘hit the wall’ and move suddenly very slowly and uncomfortable, but theis is EXCELLENT for fat loss and making you more fit - it makes your metabgolism very big. ITs good to keep little tables of how many reps you do on each cycle, very quickly write down, because you won’t feel like you’re improving, but whnen you look back over your numbers in a month you will be shocked how far you’ve improved.
Totally cut out junk food especially sugary drinks, fruit juices, sweets, white breads, white pasta - anything that creates big sugar hits, food binges - when you have to keep eating and can’t stop like cake, chocolate, soda, burgers etc. Crap food you want more and more and more, that is a sign of insulin desensitivity, you want to notice those foods that cause this urgent ‘I need more I need more’ feeling and cut them out.
If you get in a food binge (uncontrollably stuffing your face with cake and other junk) also noticing as the binge approaches what you are doing and what you are eating, because certain foods really kick it off - usually the high sugar ones - and modern sodas. Then bring the binge to a close by going and having e.g. burger meal and then stopping
REALLY listen out for the mental signal when your body has ‘had enough’ - your brain will clearly send you a signal to stop when you have eaten enough, and it is probably much lower than you think. So stop, put the meal down or in the fridge etc. and then leave it until your brain clearly gives the signal that it wants the food again - you want to get back in touch with this signal and start learning to recognise it again.
Definitely doable.
You are as tall as I am and I can give you some of my stats.
I lost about 35 lbs in one month (here you can find a comment I posted 3 days ago https://www.reddit.com/r/Dryfasting/comments/uqitb0/comment/i8vfp2h/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context= 3).
You have a lot of time, between now and September, to lose fat and possibly increase your fitness.
Manage your journey by listening to your body but knowing it’s doable!
Please keep us updated on your journey / progress!
It should. The whole idea is not to eat what has been getting you fat in the first place when you finish your fast. Try to eliminate carbs and sugar as much as possible and your will thank yourself later. Good luck!
It´s so individual what works best but well worth a try, unless you wanna start smaller and work yourself up, rather than shocking yourself like crazy to start with.
However, not sure why you would wanna make the 36h a dry fast?
Walking 10k steps is a ton harder while dry fasting than water fasting, but what you lose extra is water, which you don´t really benefit more from, especially if you´re gonna have the energy to row the next day?
But yeah, some kinda intermittant fasting schedule that is (when “worked up to”) at least 20 hours fasting window per session and at least 3 days per week.
But losing a lot of weight is a marathon, not a sprint. I think most people would benefit from taking steps to adapt and make it a more steady regarding the progression. Let´s say you start by doing Keto or something like that, perhaps just cutting out all sugar and gluten for 2 weeks while getting 12h fasting in during the nights. Then adding a bit more and more fasting gradually. Thing is - you need less to lose weight to start with so you could end up with a more steady weight loss while making it easier for yourself to adapt, compared to if you instantly go all in with semi-long dry fasts while doing kinda heavy workouts.