Your Daily Fasting Thread

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Don’t always trust the scale. Good job. I am on the 5th day of my 7day fast. I am really missing that sweet rush of dopamine when i eat my favourite food. What do you do to deal with that? I still have unhealthy ways to deal with that.

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Just finishing day 5…

-my dad just recently passed away less than 2 weeks ago and so much to handle I’m not really grieving -my ex husband the dead beat dad is after my son yet again bringing chaos into our life even just tonight no respect-I’m in a relationship that nobody would ever understand including me most of the time

Just a few reasons…fasting for health/wellness weight loss and empowerment and strength. I’m going thru all this yet fasting F everything I’m holding strong in the storms

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I’m on day 18 of (attempting) 28, longest I’ve ever done and my body is very angy with me right now. My stomach’s fat pouch and thighs have shrunk a little but are still holding on to the fat for the apocalypse my body thinks we’re going to have. But the area above my bellybutton is like.. zoop. I measured myself across the navel this morning, I’m now 85cm, and I was 1 freaking hundred and 15 last August.

So although the scale isn’t budging, something is happening, and that’s enough for me.

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I’m 16 hours into my 72 hour fast. Doing it for chronic tingling and burning in my body from probably a badly leaky gut. The carnivore diet has helped me a lot but I think regular extended fasts will help my gut heal hopefully.

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First time poster in fasting. I have been fasting sporadically almost a year, today I finally reached one of my milestones weighing less than 100kg (220 lbs) and had nobody wanted to share this with so thought I would post here.

Today is day 5 of water fast. Started off as 72hr but has continued to now hour 110.

F29, SW:250, CW:219, GW: 160

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on a cut rn

used to just eat like 500 less calories than my tdee (around 1700) for about 1200-1300 cals though i barely saw results for a month

this month i went for a way higher deficit at 1k (eating somewhere around 600-800 cals a day) and actually saw results in the first 2 weeks, but at best i was getting 60-80 g protein.

now i’ve read a couple times that eating such a small amount may mess up with muscle mass so i’d like to know how fast works.

at best i’d do 24 hour fasts every other day, and eat again at a small deficit. will it mess up with my muscle mass?