In my limited experience (and quite a bit of reading and forums), nausea from the fast is not common so watch that closely.
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If you took medicine (or supplements) on an empty stomach that you usually take with food this can be hard for some people and that will definitely produce nausea in many cases. (high does B vitamins, B 100mg x ALL, and Omega/fish oil are worst for us in this regard.)
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Be careful of SALT only if you go a long fast or drop a lot of weight/water. Potassium is at least as important as Sodium salt on the longer runs, and many of the docs say that “keto flu” is really dehydration/electrolytes, sodium first.
So many people are accustomed to avoiding salt, it’s easy to overlook that with no food you are missing something on the order of 4 grams your body receives every day. Add big weight drops to this as the carbs unload and you can lose even more.
My ‘water fast’ is really an ‘electrolyte fast’ (no sugars etc if I use commercial or I just make my own) with plenty of Na, K, and Magnesium and other electrolytes.
daddyoh Eric, my wife had both knees replaced, and one should repaired almost replaced, and both my knees and hips are replacements. I was starting consider both shoulders for repair/replacement after several years of 3 x year steroid injections when the pain would return.
Then I started carnivore, most for the weight loss, and because Jordan Peterson looked 10 years younger than he had 4 years earlier after doing it about a year. Without any expectation, neither should has ever twinged again, and I am over 1 year out from the last steroid injections.
Told my shoulder surgeon (walking through the office with my wife for her post-op knee check) and the immediate response was: “Carnivore, that’s an anti-inflammatory diet.”
Still say they might have mentioned that BEFORE the 3 years of pain and injections.
Not sure if I can get up and down without hands (easily) but that’s mostly due to the weird feeling (no pain) of putting a numb knee on the ground. I can get up without bending either knee or touching either knee to the ground (basically a push-up, then pike to downward dog and up, but I could do that the post- op week of my bilateral replacement.)
Robinette71Tamela, at 60 hours you are cooking along (forgive the allusion please. 
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Your photo shows you as pretty trim but for people with a lot of fat like me (maybe 40 lbs left and maybe being male), weight really started dropping away between the 3-7th or later days.
It was almost scary fast the first time. 22 lbs or so in 12 days, then almost 30 lbs in 14 the next time. (I gained a lot back but the fat wasn’t there, the gains were mostly water, and I did end up with real weight loss as well.)
Right now I am down about 4 1/2 since 2 full days ago, and we’re only just past 1.5 days on this fast.
You are doing fantastic, so enjoy as long as you feel good and want to keep going.
[andesite] Way to go. Especially with the no coffee. What’s a keto-aid? (I’ll google.)
If you feel good, do go for the 4 days (
100 hours ) as long as you are having fun.
As to weight, you just have to factor in water retention as not very important to true weight loss and only an issue for how you feel.
Our scale tries to show water composition (along with weight and fat percentage) but it isn’t very good at the water though I think it’s pretty good at %fat.
Chat away – when you have time with your busy schedule. We love to hear about both your successes and challenges.
Hardrock_keto_chick If you are feeling Ok, you can go as long as you choose.
FYI Folks: My wife is sleeping better than she has in weeks or months (I think, since she isn’t even up yet and went to sleep about 10-11 hours ago.)
I was up most of the night – one issue for me is that fasting brings on the energy so I sleep 4 hours and then never got back to sleep so she didn’t seem to notice when I went back to bed, and then left again. (But I am stealthy and quiet like a ninja and got the dogs out very early so they wouldn’t wake her up to potty.)
She’ll be at 38 hours even if she gets up now, so sleep is a doubly good thing for her.
I found some really good sites for AFIB that I need to check out today. Mine is under control but I’m still taking medicine and now I have a mild (Type 1) left bundle branch block so I want to get off more medicine (because it could well be the anti-arrhythmic drugs or the blood pressure meds causing the heart block, or it could just be low magnesium etc.)
Carol has dropped 3 serious meds as of now and has several targetted for reduction as soon as we are sure she’s stabilized without those others – and she take a LOT of different meds for a variety of significant chronic issues (5+).
I’ve dropped 3 (one still tentative), and I’m in the process of reducing the blood pressure meds as the weight disappears and my body heals.
Need to get my cardiologist to prescribe and EXA Test (magnesium and other minerals) – hard to figure out why she never did this or similar since she is quite good. (Probably saved my life in 2011 though a bit conventional probably.)
Happy Fasting and Good Health to everyone whether you fasting now or just lurking in preparation…
Stay safe out there folks.
Yesterday I had 2 keto-aids and lots of water and green tea.
welcome!