After dinner (big spinach and kale salad with ranch dressing, a whole tomato, cheddar cheese, and cauliflower, with a side of cottage cheese) last Thursday, around 6pm, I started my first on-purpose fast. I drank water and different kinds of undoctored tea. I figured I’d go at least 16-18 hrs, maybe 24, and I ended up going 46! It was so easy that I just kept going. I regret breaking it because I wasn’t even that hungry - it was a social situation. After I ate something, I was RAVENOUS, so I ate more. The only ‘bad’ thing was the popcorn lol. Then, an hour later…wooo…hours of intermittent diarrhea (sorry, TMI). That was last night.
Anyway, I haven’t eaten yet today and I’m not hungry, so I suppose I could just start as of last night, whenever it was that I ate some watermelon (it was at least 2-3 hrs after I broke my fast), but if I’m gonna go longer, psychologically I feel like I should eat something before I go a long time, and I also have some fresh produce that will go bad soon, which will make me feel wasteful. So maybe I’ll go eat soon.
I just weighed myself: 276.0 lbs and 60% fat, 43% total body water (I think this is a little bit independent of the others), 25% muscle, and 4.4lb bone (this can’t be right, can it?), according to my smartish scale (I know it’s not the most accurate method of body composition, but it’s easy and I’m good with a ballpark estimate). I hadn’t thought to weigh myself on Thursday, and I hadn’t weighed myself in quite a while, but I do know I have been up to about 290 sometime sort of recently.
I’m hoping for autophagy as well as weight loss, so I’m not gonna do the bone broth. I think I’ll take vitamins and add a little pink salt to a bit of my water. If it goes well, I’m open to extending past seven days, but I can’t go more than like twelve because I’m going to a Phonetics conference with a colleague and they’re feeding us. LOL. I also don’t want to explain to my colleague why I’m skipping the complimentary dinner. So I figure that at the very latest I need to break my fast around lunchtime that day.
I’m going to post updates here, whether or not anyone comments. If it goes well, I’ll copy bits of what I said and make a post on my blog.
NOTE: I have been trying to eat keto but kinda fell off the wagon in mid July and have been going back and forth. So the plan is to mostly eat keto and fast a bunch. If this goes well, I’ll do alternate day for a few weeks at least, and then I might want to do it again. ALSO, I did just finish The Obesity Code and I’ve read the extra bits from Dr. Fung’s fasting guide. I’m reading up on stuff.