70 day fast (combined)

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(Kaii) #1

I’m looking forward to this journey but I’m slightly nervous I won’t lie. I am 25 years old, female with a lot of bad habits to purge. I’m not one to go slow and steady I just usually jump in head first into any challenge so I’m going into this 70 day cleanse because I’m just tired of being unhealthy.
Background:-
I’ve been a sugar addict for as long as I can remember. Started smoking when I was 15 and it’s been hard to quit. Luckily I’m not aversed to fruit and vegetables as my family loves them and I’ve grown up eating them a lot. I do, however, have a binging problem and emotional eating problem. On my worst day I could eat 6 125g packets of sweets, murder plates of ribs with lots of chips and wine and smoke a pack of cigarettes in the space of 8 hours. Something has to change. I weigh 84.5kg/185 pounds and I’m constantly exhausted and have terrible issues with shortness of breath. I have PCOS as well.
THE PLAN:
Over the next 70 days I will be on a combined fast.

  • 10 day smoothie/soup/juice fast.
  • 50 day water fast
    -10 day juice/soup fast.

Wish me luck.

(Richard Morris) #2

A smoothie/juice fast is almost assuredly not ketogenic.

Additionally a 50 day fast is a potentially dangerous activity even with a physician monitoring you. This is not something we officially or unofficially support.

If you have PCOS and lack energy then a ketogenic diet is a viable treatment option. You don’t even need to fast for a ketogenic diet to dramatically reduce your secretion of insulin, although of course many people who start of with ketogenic diets do add in intermittent and extended fasts.

But to try to do any fast on the back of a juice cleanse is like pulling on your hand brake as you are driving down a freeway.

At 25 you haven’t yet done much damage to your metabolism compared to most people here in their middle years with decades of damage. However juice cleanses followed by dramatic calorie restriction is one way to supercharge the damage to your metabolism.

(G. Andrew Duthie) #3

Don’t see anything with respect to whether you are working with a doctor on this.

While shorter extended fasts (less than a week) should be possible and reasonably safe for most people, a 50-day water fast should almost certainly be done only under the supervision of a competent medical professional with experience in this area. And that includes refeeding once the water fast period is done.

Please note that this is not medical advice, as I am not a medical professional. Just pointing out that your plan, if not supervised by a competent medical professional, may carry significant risks.

If you have never fasted before, I would strongly recommend that you start with a few smaller fasts.

(Jane) #4

If it were me (not that I would attempt what you are doing, but beside the point) I would replace the soup/juice fast with protein powder dissolved in water. That is what many doctors put their gastric bypass surgery patients on to reduce their fatty liver as much as possible before surgery.

(Jane) #5

Can I ask why you decided to do this and what your goals are? It doesn’t align with keto that is for sure or anything Dr. Fung recommends.

If you are looking for instant results you may not get what you expect, but I wish you well.

#6

There are plenty of very ambitious fasting protocols that seem much safer to me, but in any case so many folks do juice fasting and can probably guide you, but this is not the place to get advice on it because that’s not what we do here!

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #7

I think that’s pretty exteme considering if you’ve never fasted before and are not fat adapted. I certainly would not do it with juices.

My starting weight was similiar to yours
I am 5’4, started at 80.8kg and am currently 66.2kg within 5 months.
It’s entirely achieveable.
Why waste all of that time attempting unsustainable fasts when you can just get started on Keto and get to be where I am with a few extra months work?