Hullo From Sunny Brighton, UK

[FoxBase]

Hey! Found this forum as a result of my interest in fasting.

Have used ADF quite a lot and done a few 7 day fasts, as well as a lot of 2 and 3 day fasts…typically use them for pre-summer diet. Seems to be a bit harder to get in to this time around and wondered if my increased fruit consumption was making the difference…thought keto (on feed days) might help…

…as an aside to all of this I also get quite bad water retention around my belly, seemingly due to carbs…so now wondering if keto wouldn’t just be better for me altogether…

…as an experiment I tried fasting for 3 days and then refeeding on very low carbs - felt great…and then repeating but refeeding normally - got a food hangover and water retention…

Currently on day 3 of a fast…and have resolved not to eat until my body fat is where I want it. I train quite a lot - martial arts and various other things…interested to see how a keto diet interacts with training.

Anyway, I’m rambling…hello!

[MarkGossage]

Hello and welcome from sunny Worthing UK…
I fast fairly often and have been trying a one meal every other day experiment… although not all that successfully to be honest… too many temptations.
I recently joined a gym as I had so much extra energy on keto and enjoy exercising fasted…

[FoxBase]

Hi! Nice to meet someone from the sunny south coast!

Is your one meal at the end of the second day? I find that quite tough going too - it’s like your body is just getting in to the swing of it then you pull back…always feel much hungrier on a 3rd day morning as a result, whereas typically I’m not a morning-hungry person…though if I eat earlier in the day then it’s game over, I’ll be eating for the rest of the day…

I’m a fan of fasted exercise too! Especially those days when you feel almost super-human! Glad to hear that keto is supporting your gym activities…looking forward to it!

[MarkGossage]

I have hardly ever had breakfast in the past 18 months except a week when we were on hols and it was included in the hotel price… great meaty buffet. I tend not to have any morning hunger pangs just have a couple of mugs of tea and then a coffee with double cream for 11’s (usually 12’s for me).
Yes I have dinner after 47 hours of fasting although have been mixing it up a bit with feasting and fasting for a couple of days each. I’m still trying to loose a few extra pounds (about 20) after loosing 100 so far. It’s certainly getting more difficult to drop the pounds but I’m pretty determined to get there. Keto is for sure the way to go for that.

[mikki]

hi

check out these threads…i think they are exactly up your alley

Simple diagram that demonstrates weight loss

Here’s a simple diagram that I used recently to help someone understand how I employ fasting and keto in effort to lose weight. Thoughts? [image]

Fast/Feast cycling

I’ve heard fast/feast cycling can be helpful for lowering insulin and breaking stalls so I decided to go for it and just do my own n=1 albeit rather sloppily. My goal will be to try fast/feast cycling (that is salt-water fasts alternated with days of double normal caloric intake) for as long as 1) I need to 2) it shows it isn’t detrimental to my over all progress. It will be sloppy because I don’t track calories, and never will if I can help it especially for this test as I feel like seeing su…

I LOVE fasted training

[Fiorella]

Welcome, and thank you for sharing your experiences. I hope you find this forum helpful.

[FoxBase]

Thanks so much for the links @mikki ! I love reading about this stuff and other peoples experiences/goals etc!

Fasted training is fantastic Interestingly…my kung fu is quite cerebral - doing it while fasted makes things so much easier in that context as well as the physical/flexibility side of things…I wouldn’t want to do it any other way.

[FoxBase]

Thanks for the warm welcome! Am beginning to think that this is my kinda place

[mikki]

you’re going to have so much fun here
tons of “fun” reading!

the jason witrock one is fun for when you decide to eat LOL

Wittrock's n=1 Ketogenic 4000 kcal Overfeeding 21 Day Challenge

The ketogenic diet is thought by some to make weight loss easier, and weight gain more difficult, due to its macro make up. Some debate that it is merely the effect of the the appetite suppressing effect that accompanies a LCHF diet. (And then yet others, who are not ketogenic, debate is there is not any appetite reducing effect at all.) As you all know, there have been very few, if any, studies to determine if one gains slowly while overfeeding on a ketogenic diet. There have been a few n=1 se…

[FoxBase]

Thanks @mikki

Got to confess that I’m a bit of a geek…don’t know what it is about nutritional science but my mouth does actually start to water when I find new things to research

[mikki]

you’ve found your tribe LOL

[FoxBase]

Hahaha - finally! All those years of being the crazy one have borne fru…ahem cheesy bacon

[ba6abb595c203347b90a]

Hello and welcome!

[Brenda]

I wasn’t a geek before keto.
Three years ketogenic and total immersion into this community? I am now told I am one.
Lol.
I may even make a graph soon and share it. Heh

[farmgirl]

I may even make a graph soon and share it. Heh

Oh no…you wouldn’t go that far, would you?

[Ryan_Andrew_Dixon]

Hey guys, I see Sussex is lacking a Keto friendly community so thought I would form a facebook group, come check us out and join the conversation

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1510862789027790/