Rounding third and sprinting for home!
Starting January 1st, I’m alternating a week of fasting with a week of keto OMAD, for weight loss and general health. My goal is to get under 200 pounds.
It’s day six of my THIRD seven-day, 168-hour fast of the year! 126 hours in.
Once again, I am kinda regretting not taking a “Before” pic, just for my own records. (I don’t do that because one time, when I did? I dieted for a month, took a second photo, saw no appreciable change, got discouraged, and quit. So, no “Before” pictures, just like no weighing myself, while I kick this lifestyle change off!) I feel smaller, and I THINK I look smaller, but is it all in my head? It can’t be; I haven’t eaten for three full weeks out of the new year. But who knows!
Anyway, planning to use my Feburary FFFID (Free Floating Fuck-It Day, where I am allowed a single off-plan meal) for a Valentine’s dinner with my sweetie! Looking forward to that.
Gave rolling 72s a shot in August for the entire month and loved it. Work & the holidays happened and I put myself/my weight loss on the back burner. I was planning on rolling 72s again with OMAD for breaking the fast and repeating for a few months beginning this month but just realized from when I ate last until I eat the meal breaking my fast it will be at least 92 hours possibly a little longer. 72 is the longest fast I’ve done. I didn’t plan that very well I suppose. Technically I could eat at 10pm tonight but I’m not eating that late and wanted my meal to be dinner when I get off work tomorrow between 6-8pm. So I guess I’ll really be doing rolling 92s. Sorry if I’m rambling, just wrapping my head around an additional 20hrs I hadn’t accounted for. So far I’m doing great though! So I’m hopeful it won’t be a problem, just mentally adjusting to this realization.
Ive Finished my 3rd fast! I lasted 1 week and 18 hours! I lost 8 Pounds this week and a total 30 pounds since January 1.
Now I’m going to go and eat a good lunch and then restart my next 7 Day fast.
Just finished a 100 hour fast! Having some pretty gnarly hunger pains so I might break it even though I wanted to go another day. I’m going to keep doing these rolling 4-5 day fasts because I feel like they’ve been really beneficial in terms of health and saving time/money.
I wish I could figure out how to post images on comments in Reddit. Because then I would post the results of my rolling 48-hour fasting over the past month. I’m down 15.3lbs, and that includes 3 days where I totally broke diet and drank and ate everything, and the recovery day afterward where I would eat more just because I felt so bad.
During my feeding window I pretty much just have a giant green smoothie with all of the nutrients I can cram into it, and then I’ll have a giant salad at Whole Foods with paleo-friendly meats on it (or close).
I’m proud of the progress and I feel fantastic. I started around 251.4lbs and I’m down to 236.1lbs. I do find this approach to fasting to be relatively easy, and I can still exercise even on my fasting days. I find the psychological component to be most important - always knowing that I’m eating tomorrow gives me confidence that I can keep going.
I have done longer fasts for sure, upwards of 14 days, but I never felt like doing much while fasting, and I found it very isolating. Now I feel I can socialize more, go to workout classes, etc. and still be dropping on average half a pound per day.
Others who have done this have report significantly high fat loss percentage compared to lean tissue. I didn’t do a DEXA, I just wanted to drop more weight and fast, but I’m happy with the progress.
I’ll be on the road for the next two months so the real challenge will be keeping up with this going forward.
Kinda struggling as I’m also very active in my job, burning usually an additional 2000-2500 calories a day on top of my metabolic rate, so a total calorie deficit of 4500-5000 daily. I remember it was easier in September last year.
I’m attempting a fast the rest of the day, and tomorrow. I finished up a pastry I made a few days ago for breakfast,which perhaps I should not have.
Fasting the rest of the day. I might break from that if insomnia hits, but maybe I will be able to avoid it.
If i work in a food factory that requires me to taste the product, could I get away taking the tiniest little nibble from the corner of a chip 2-3 times per day, or would that rob me of the autophagy on a multi-day fast? Worst case scenario, I guess I could just chew, rinse and spit into a nearby sink, but that would probably be awkward to others.