#Share your daily fast story thread! 📃
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My body is finally used to/pushing my existing schedule from 48/48/72. I was set to eat on Saturday, but didn’t feel hungry so I skipped the meal. Wasn’t even hungry on Sunday, but I ate so I wouldn’t have to fuss with electrolytes. Fasted yesterday and I’m feeling pretty sure I’ll push this 48 into a 72 as well. If I do, I expect to cross the halfway mark (26 pounds lost) when I weigh in tomorrow morning.
Feeling great, absurdly tempted by the popcorn someone made in the office, but otherwise great.
Started adding light lifting in addition to my 10k steps.
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After 4 days I broke my 7 days fast today. It was a first for me, so it is maybe to be expected to quit early. While I’m sure I could have sticked through, I decided I have way to important things in front of me to be not at my highest capacity. Mostly I had trouble focusing on complex tasks, caused by little annoying headaches and the worry wether will I collapse due to lack of some weird salts. I learned a lot though:
- I have no immediate need for food, probably never had in my life. (Weird flex)
- Hunger is a very subtle sensation if you are in control of it.
- It feels easier to quit eating than smoking.
- Eating still is just a wonderful thing though.
Also I feel very good today, maybe the healing and repair cells eating themselves stuff has something to it. I will do it again definetely, with better preperation though: E.g. the right supplements from the beginning, also timing, to not do it in times where my performance is critical to the survival of the human species.
And, this is a cool subreddit - rather low bullshit; surprising for a somehow nutrition related topic.
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Starting a 7 day fast today. I need to reset my relationship with food, I’ve been eating fast food and take out nearly every day since I started my new job. I’ve also done keto before and I know that I feel much better mentally when my body’s running off of ketones so I’m looking forward to that mental clarity too.
The longest I’ve ever fasted before was about 50 hours. Any tips from people who have done longer fasts would be much appreciated!
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6.5 days down, 14.5 days to go. Pretty smooth sailing. I threw out the last dill pickle I had so I could down some (free-of-sugar) pickle juice last night - was tempting not to just take the 10 calories and eat the pickle lol
EDIT: I waited to start weighing until I felt vacation water weight was off, but the last 3 weigh-ins were 228.8 -> 225.2 -> 223.2 - interested to see if the pace holds up, because by my calculations I should only be losing a little over 1 pound per day.