#Share your daily fast story thread! 📃
⏳ **Length** of fast (*start/end/total*)
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Started up again this week with OMAD but since dinner yesterday I decided I’m gonna do a fast until sometime in the afternoon on Saturday and ease myself back into 72s again. I want to lose weight but also save some money lol food is expensive nowadays.
Instead of obsessing over scale numbers I decided to just gauge my progress with how close or far my belly is to the steering wheel. From touching it’s now an inch away so progress is being made! 😂
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I have been doing morning OMAD and fasting ~24 hours at a time (was aiming for a 48, but cut it short at 32 a few days ago.
Yesterday’s OMAD: Bunch of sweet Italian sausage, 6 eggs, spinach, a banana, glass of orange juice. 1935 calories. Up 1.8 lbs. Height 6’1. Weight: 242.8 yesterday, 244.0 today. Frustrating. Dying to get out of these damn 240s.
Rational thoughts: Probably sodium from all that sausage, like 3400mg total yesterday, compared to around 1000mg the previous day (mainly had beef, eggs, skim milk). Also, I did go for a long walk w/the dog at the park, and did some lifting with heavy dumbells. Nothing crazy, overhead presses, shrugs, and curls. Still frustrating though. This is the first month in a while I haven’t had multiple 3000+ cal cheat days, and stuck to fasting, and it’s slowed to a crawl.
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I’m in the tail end of my 48 hour rolling fast… gotta admit I am enjoying this. I might actually push this fast another 24 hours, maybe into Saturday. What surprises me most is that my hunger levels are not an issue in the second half of the 48 hour fast. Usually day 2 is hard… but today is not an issue. I just had a large cup of black coffee this morning. Odd.