June 2026 Intermittent/Extended Fasting

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #1

Here is June’s thread.

Hope you all are doing well. I am holding the line and doing a lot of mixed fasting days, some OMAD, some 2MAD, with an occasional 3 meals. I like to keep my body guessing. :slight_smile:

April 2026 Intermitten/Extended Fasting All Welcome
(Tracie Angel) #2

Happy June! Love the strategy of keeping your body guessing—it sounds like you’ve found a really great, flexible rhythm with the OMAD and 2MAD mix. Holding the line is a victory in itself. Wishing you a great month ahead, you’ve got this!

#3

Things go better for me now though the OMAD days are still sporadic. I have OMAD and 2MAD days, the latter is often still okay unless I overdo plants… I am good at keeping my fat intake lowish now. Or I just don’t track often enough to see the >200g days popping up. But I don’t think I have many of those anymore. Early low-carb was tough, I missed fat for years (and got those 200-260g days regularly, still holding back on fat… woe was me). Sure, I still would like to eat fatty but it’s not nearly that bad now, I don’t have a deep longing, just could enjoy myself more, anyway, I can do a fat fast day if it’s that important for me.

Fat fast days didn’t happen lately because I didn’t want super high-fat or had other plans. Or got hungry before 5pm, fat fast is impossible for me then.

I really need more OMAD days. It helps so much. It’s hard to mess up an OMAD day now, with my current knowledge, subtle preference shifts and everything I have compared to years ago. And it’s sooo convenient. I like to be satiated all day. It’s sooo lovely to fast until 5pm while being perfectly satiated then not hungry then subtly hungry and maybe in the end really hungry but in a fun, challenging, not suffering way? :slight_smile: I really love fasting as long as it’s not unpleasant. It’s chill. Eating easily mess up the peace and getting satiation from that is a very hard, tiresome task sometimes. Why my satiation is so complicated… Many people just eats something, not even much. A youtuber called my smallest OMAD mealsize “out of control” lately. I can’t really understand how is 1500 kcal too much, it’s a cute meal, not even big and even my energy need is significantly bigger. It’s a very nice size for me (well a tad small but sometimes happens). But many people lives in a 5MAD world (and apparently forgets not everyone is like that). It sounds utterly miserable but of course, I come from my “getting satiated is a big task” experience, it must be easy if a random tiny meal does the trick. Or not, I really hated my 5MAD carnivore days with tiny meals. Getting hungry every hour, not fun! But that was just 5-6 hours and I was in peace outside of it as normal. My mind needs those food breaks. A few hours and a longer while sleeping isn’t enough. I wake up and I still have several hours of fasting peace, it’s great.
But even if I don’t eat, I think about food way too much, not always but some days are bad. I should do something about it. I know the reason and solution I believe but it doesn’t make the change easy.

Have a nice June, everyone! Ours started with rain so I am happy. The soil really needed it. We tried to visit the nearby lovely waterfall - and it was EMPTY. We had no idea it could happen but well, an important, bigger but shallow lake of Hungary almost dried out too (and summer is coming. ouch). The drought is very severe :sob: SPRING drought, it’s new. We only had it in summer before.
But there was rain and another, bigger one will come soon. So yay!

(Bob M) #4

That’s a good strategy.

I was planning on doing a longer fast this week, but I (re)got covid. Don’t feel that bad, but probably not the best time to have a longer fast.

#5

Hope it’s not too bad & you’re over it’s soon…
24hrs into a fast at the moment.

#6

I have OMADish days, one after the other… I think I got the hang of it now! :slight_smile: My meal is around 18:30pm every day as it’s dinnertime for us since the days are longer and it’s not like I get some sudden irresistible hunger at 17:15 or something. If I can skip lunch, I can wait until dinner.
(OMADish as I did have a few little bites here and there before dinner but it’s really minimal! Works for me, my main goal is having only one proper meal. It’s nice to do it clean but it’s not the most important thing.)

I need to prepare myself for the mental part of EF… I wasn’t hungry yesterday at all, I just ate my dinner because that was the plan. It’s probable I would have gotten hungry later but it felt a bit of a waste not even trying to do EF but mentally I was very very prepared to eat my food (I freshly cooked something I really liked and haven’t eaten since ages, among others)… Not feeling hunger was surprising, I don’t have that nowadays. But now I will consider the possibility.

I plan a fat fast day for tomorrow! A bit closer to fasting than OMAD… It is OMAD (how could I split that minuscule food into two? :D) but a very simple, special kind, just a few bites. Requires more of the right attitude for fasting (as I have to give up eating a substantial, normal meal and most food options are out) but not nearly as much as EF. No danger of getting hungry too late, way less food noise too (I have that even when perfectly satiated, well it depends but I usually think about food a lot). It’s so so simple and chill!

@ctviggen: I hope you get better soon!

#7

I made my very delayed track for this week (therefore I barely could use my memories). Yeah I need a fat fast day. I deleted the rest of this paragraphs, no one needs that including me. Plans, I need those :frowning: Or keto (preferably very close to carnivore) but it’s June so it won’t happen. BUT it was an easy, too indulgent, satiated week so no wear and tear on me, it’s something :smiley: And I am a bit used to OMAD (or something similar… yesterday I needed some extra protein for my tiny second dinner, I neglected protein a bit and the huge amounts on the previous days don’t matter, my body has this annoying daily quota thing) now.
So I will do this cleaner, better, with less indulgence in the wrong direction. And with frequent fat fast days, they are useful. I easily overeat protein in a single dinner anyway so my average still will be good.

Maybe EF would do good to me mentally. We will see, I am open for it on Monday. I will push for it. I needn’t to practice staying hungry until it gets serious this week and looking at my macros and considering I had most of my food for dinner, it’s no wonder.

(Bean) #8

I want to start a fast tomorrow or Monday. Depends on what hubby is doing. He’s willing to cook for himself, but sometimes that’s worse.

I am very out of routine and my GKI is a bit off the rails. I think a little accountability would be helpful. I am really only thinking of 48-72 hours, but that is a lot harder for me in the summer because my work routine is more flexible.

Anyone else fasting soon?

#9

Just done a 48 HR fast, I cook for hubby but try to plan.something really easy & especially something I don’t like!

(Bean) #10

Just wrapped mine up, as well. I managed to have food for DH to heat and eat. Not so many “fresh cooked” smells, lol.

Had a whopper of a headache this fast. I did resolve some shoulder inflammation. Yay! Think I’ll add some fat next time. I’m at my goal weight. Fasting is therapeutic for me.

I guess there’s a limit to how much fat a body can pull from reserves when at lower BMI.

#11

Had some very indulgent days (eating early and eating carbier at my SO’s Mom… she can bake as well as always…), got hungry too early yesterday but now I got serious again (and my body cooperates). Nice OMAD day for today (not totally clean but almost) but I really would like to do more. The plan is not eating tomorrow, we will see. I don’t cook tomorrow (pressure can some fruits though, I try to focus as I need to pick it too. or maybe I skip?) and I don’t have anything particularly nice either, OMAD often makes the next day chill too so I don’t expect non-physical problems. So I just wait until I get properly, seriously, really hungry. Today it didn’t happen, my hunger was small but I had nice food and it’s easier to plan a fasting day when my SO has extra work so on Monday or Wednesday.

I am fine with fresh cooked smells and cooking is really good when fasting - if I don’t need to taste it. I can cook almost anything without it but just almost so sometimes it’s incompatible with fasting. And I have my favs and it’s so sad not to taste those right away… I always make sure not to have leftover meat (or some other tempting food) when I plan a fasting day. I have no control over my garden but I still should possess the ability to NOT eating fruit for a single day, right? Once I skipped two whole weeks! But it will be a challenge.

Yep. There is even a formula but of course people are too complicated and don’t always follow it. But still, there are serious limits as far as I know. Well, it’s not my problem, that’s sure, I am around my heaviest now, I did my 5 day fast when I was way, way lighter.

#12

Ended my fast this morning too, 60hrs in the end.

#13

That’s nice! I wish I can do that some time in 2026 too.
Meanwhile I ended up with a rare low-cal OMAD. Still good. While I still think about food sometimes, I pretty much lost all appetite for now. So I eat when hungry or feeling the need for food. Good. Until I start missing the joy of eating (serious hunger usually kills it for me). But I had so much of it all my life, it can last for a while.

I am adamant at sticking to OMAD now, I am curious what would happen. It always broke apart in the past, I only had a single time when I could stick to it for a while but I ate carby then, it made OMAD ridiculously easy while keto made it nearly impossible. But I know more now, added useful items and new recipes… Maybe it will work this time.

(Bob M) #14

I’m not sure what’s going on, but I was planning a 3.5-4.5 day fast. This is my first day, and my CGM told me I was at 72. I thought it was wrong, so I took a pin-prick test, and got 74. On the first day of fasting. Compare with the last time I did a long-term fast, where I didn’t hit the lower 70s until day 3:

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I felt a bit shaky too, so I bailed. I did have ketones of 1.2 mmol/l, but that didn’t seem to help.

I’m wondering if covid affected my pancreas. This implies it can:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-024-01796-2

I’m not that far out from having covid. I may try again next week.

I’m also on Jardiance, which itself causes lower blood sugar.