First Fast...maybe IF....maybe extended

(eat more) #1

i didn’t plan it but i also didn’t plan keto…i guess that’s how i roll :joy:

i’m about 18 hours in…have only had bpc, bcaa, and electrolytes
did hills, sprints, jogging, abs, jump rope, and medicine ball slams and didn’t DIE!

i have a later work night so if i don’t eat before** or during i’ll hit 24…

**not likely due to time as i chose to post here instead of eating hah!

i’m not hungry…my stomach is a little weird but that’s likely the bcaa/electrolytes and a slight headache but that could have been the case doing the running stuff that i don’t normally do

go me! :blush:

First 72er!
Ok, Mikki made me do it, first fast has begun
(Jaidann) #2

WOW - nice job!

(Stephanie Hanson) #3

Excellent. I drink pickle juice for fasting headaches. It works wonderfully for me.

#4

Yeah - go you. x

#5

18 hours is the WORST, if you made it past that, you got this for the night! Fast on lady😉

(eat more) #6

i’m over 26 hours so we’ll call it extended :blush:

might as well break it tomorrow at this point…

having some broth now…might even have more lol

a girl at work was eating turkey with eggplant, lentils, and brussels sprouts…oddly it all looked and smelled really good but eating it myself never even crossed my mind lol (at around hour 19)

hour 21-22 i felt a little funky but it passed…

i think working out and working made it easier.

who knew? (i’d be doing this and could lol)

(Michael Critchfield) #7

Great job. My family has always fasted one day a month and donate the money we would have spent on food for that day to feed the poor. I have never been able to fast until Keto. Now I can go a couple of days without even trying. I love Keto.

#8

Very interesting ritual. Nice.

(eat more) #9

update:
i’m not super educated on fasting so i either broke at 28 hours with a little almond butter (only non liquid intake) or i’m on hour 37…38 by the time i finish this post LOL…having bpc now :blush:

i slept well, feel pretty alert :flushed:, and already had a bathroom “business” meeting (tmi?)
last night before the bite of almond butter i was feeling and literally thought “ok you did it…maybe let’s not do this again”
but i feel really good today

so i’m wondering if the “hcg diet” is really just a form of keto/fasting (with an unnecessary component).
it’s under 500 calories, low carb, has fat fasts, egg days, nut days, etc (i’ve been thinking about this for a while)

to be clear i am not advocating or suggesting the hcg diet in anyway.
i think it effs up ppl’s relationship with food and themselves and there’s no HF with the LC…i just do see some similarities…

i’m feeling accomplished even if maybe im doing it “wrong”…or at least outside the accepted fasting “rules” (cuz i don’t really know what they are…i just jumped)…really accomplished that i did the workout i did fasted and didn’t die…it was hard but it would have been hard with food too (maybe harder?) lol

thanks for reading fine ppl :blush:

(John) #10

I don’t think there really are rules any more. In the strictest sense maybe not but to me if you are under a couple hundred cals I would consider that fasting.

I have always been too chicken to fast (mmmm chicken) but I haven’t eaten in 14 hours now, so maybe I will give it a try. Now that I said something i’m hungry :frowning:

#11

It’s not the ultra-strict water fast, but it would still qualify as a fast, so good work! :smile:

I’d say that it is still effective in helping to reduce insulin resistance as well as allowing autophagy.

I just finished a spontaneous 36 hour fast and I had a few calories here and there from non-dairy coconut/almond milk creamers, some chicken bone broth with sea salt and 1/2 tbsp butter where the carbs were 0 and protein only added up to 2 grams for the entire day. I could’ve kept going, but decided to make it an OMAD until Saturday morning’s breakfast instead of making it 60 hours.

(Michelle) #12

you ARE accomplished!!! Working those fasting muscles. GO YOU!! :+1:

(eat more) #13

that’s how i jumped…“meh it’s already been 14 hours…let’s just see what happens…you can eat anytime you want” :joy:
i think it’s definitely different when you give yourself permission to make the choice to do/not do versus “can’t” or “have to”

i actually tell ppl that are trying to quit smoking that i never told myself that i “couldn’t”…we are rebellious creatures even against ourselves/own good

(eat more) #14

i want to workout NOW but don’t have time :cry:

(eat more) #15

we’re “spontaneous fasters”

i might just be spontaneous…anyone want to go to vegas? :joy: (i kid)

(John) #16

That’s funny because I quit smoking sort of the same way, I said smoke all you want, but don’t buy another pack, we’ll see how long people let you mooch. It wasn’t long.

#17

What would you estimate the calorie count of the few BPCs you had?

(Jodi Stewart) #18

Beautiful idea @Mcritchfield!

(eat more) #19

fast broken with actual food at 45 hours (salami, a slice of bacon, and pistachios)

it was frighteningly easy…i began to wonder if i’d ever eat again :joy:

the only real reason i broke it was because it was “close enough” to 46 and i was freezing (it’s 75ish degrees here)

@Kirkor all of yesterday was around 500

EDIT: it was actually 47 hours
7pm wednesday - 6:15-30ish in friday

46 must have been in my brain because of @ron-coleman 46 day fast lol

#20

Awesome Mikki! I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s time for me to do some fasting of some sort.