#Share your daily fast story thread! 📃
⏳ **Length** of fast (*start/end/total*)
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I normally weigh myself at the start of my fasts, but my schedule is a day off right now, so needed to weigh myself a day early to keep my data consistent.
So not fasting yet, as my next fast starts tomorrow night, but just needed to toss this data somewhere positive, and it didn’t seem big enough to start it’s own thread over but:
I’ve lost 20 pounds in my first month of doing weekly 3-day fasts.
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Watching a girl on YouTube brought me here. She is on day 16/28 and documenting the whole thing. I salute everyone so much going through this journey! The discipline and foritude required to get through this is amazing. I will be starting next week wish me luck!
Here is her channel by the way if you want to check her out.
https://youtu.be/je3O7Bid_dw
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Hi all!
Just venting here !
This is my second day with intermittent fasting this time around (17-7) while doing keto and still working out every morning. Skipping breakfast is so hard !
I feel grumpy, light headed and ghrelin pains. Anxiety attack too, for the first time in a while.
Please tell me it gets better !
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⏳ Length of fast: Started today, attempting 72 hours on water for the first time.
❓ Why are you fasting? Weight loss, detoxication, body reset.
📝 Notes: Just started a few minutes ago. Tired of failing myself. Tired of always talking about and reading about fasting but never putting in work. Tired of having my set point weight stuck at 140 for so long.
Stats: Female, 5’3”, CW: 140 lbs
If anyone is interested in joining, I’m all for it.
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On day 8 fasting so far and feel good, but here’s the thing: I work as a server in a large restaurant Fri/Sat/Sun and I’m worried I’m not going to make it through the shift without discomfort. I think I will have to break the fast before then, but I was thinking about doing it with bone broth and then continuing to fast with bone broth and some low-cal veg like napa cabbage. <50kcal/day. I am fasting for weight loss so not too worried about autophagy ceasing. But I also don’t want to put myself on a starvation diet without realizing it, so here I am… bone broth with napa cabbage, maybe some shirataki noodles, once or twice a day - would that be feasible to continue losing weight?