November 2018 IF / EF Chat ALL WELCOME

[juice]

Had a big lunch and finishing a coffee with heavy cream, then going to fast 36hr. Plan is to cycle 36hr fast, feast one meal, fast again a few times and see how it works.

Most interested in how this works for you, indeed.

[Gaff]

Yeah the timing doesn’t quite work out (i.e. ate at 12pm today, I’d next eat at midnight tomorrow?) but I will work something out along those lines. 6am, 6pm could work and then occasionally break it up with a lunch.

[Gaff]

OK, so I’m fasting again since 12pm today through all of tomorrow, then will try this latest experiment on Thursday morning with a lovely large breakfast. I’ll then fast 36 hours through to Friday evening and have a big dinner.

I’m aiming to keep fasts around 24-36 hours now except for occasionally shaking it up with a second (or even third) meal. I’ll follow this pattern for the next few weeks, measure blood glucose more regularly each day, and won’t fast beyond 36 hours.

[Madeleine]

Hey, all - I’m at 60 hours for my Nov fast. Twice I year I’ll do (or aim for) 7 days, but the other monthly fasts are just 3-5 days. Three days would take me to tonight, but I’m working late anyway so I think I’ll get to at least 4 days this time.
Salt!!! I had salty tea last night before bed (which was actually delicious) and then put a pinch of salt under my tongue when I went to bed, and for maybe the first time ever during a fast, I slept beautifully. Very happy about that, since rough sleep has been my main challenge with fasting.

[Jezza]

Starting Day 5 today. I’ve wanted to quit a couple of times, but I’m so far in at this point that it would be pointless to start over in a couple of days. I did go for a short walk yesterday (in the dark and cold!) followed by a hot bath when I was feeling stressed out. That did the trick! My blood ketones are 1.4 so I know I’m burning fat for energy. As long as I feel fine there is no reason to quit.

[ctviggen]

You know, Dr. Fung says if you make it through days 2 and 3, you should easily be able to go 7 days. I have not found that to be true, though. One time I made it to about 4 days and got so freaking hungry, and suddenly, that it was all I could do to make it until 4.5 days.

I’m on day 3, as is my wife. I’m drinking pickle juice at night for the salt, along with taking in salt and potassium, and using magnesium oil. I’m also taking iodine. This might be making me less cold, though last night I slept with a long, heavy shirt on, which is unheard of.

[collaroygal]

You know, Dr. Fung says if you make it through days 2 and 3, you should easily be able to go 7 days. I have not found that to be true, though. One time I made it to about 4 days and got so freaking hungry, and suddenly, that it was all I could do to make it until 4.5 days.

That is my experience too, I am fine on days 2/3, but starting the 4th day always ends in me caving and eating something. I am not sure if it has anything to me starting my fasting protocols when I was within 20 lbs. of my goal weight or not. But once I made it past 4.5, I was at goal and I can’t even do 100 hrs. without some added fats. I used Richard’s calculator so I knew I had the stores to tough it out. But I just can’t do longer fasting now, under 90ish hrs. I’m fine.

[Shortstuff]

Drinking it is likely to make you throw up, it’s an old method of inducing vomiting. Shouldn’t be an issue if only using tiny amounts though. I actually like salt in coffee now.

[Madeleine]

Is their a difference between drinking salt water and putting it under the tongue?

I don’t find a difference between drinking (a little bit) and putting in under my tongue, but I think I saw a discussion on here recently (last day or so) about this.

[juice]

You know, Dr. Fung says if you make it through days 2 and 3, you should easily be able to go 7 days. I have not found that to be true, though.

Lots of people say day two is the hard one, but for me day one is the difficult one. [wanders off muttering about n=1 or something]

[Shortstuff]

Go with it if it works for you, no need to change.

[Madeleine]

Hi, everyone!
I’m at 65 hours. All good so I really have nothing to update. I just like checking in

[islandlight]

I’m doing 44-hour fasts, e.g., I stop eating at 10 pm Wednesday, resume eating at 6 pm Friday. I exercise in the afternoon, so during Thursday exercise I feel normal, because it’s before my regular eating time and my body doesn’t yet know I’m fasting. On Friday afternoon I still feel fine in general, but when I do challenging exercises I find I’m not really 100%.

I’ve reorganized my exercise schedule so I’m doing lighter exercises and shorter sessions on the second day (Friday). This should work better!

[ctviggen]

I think all the days are hard. I’m on day 3 and thinking to myself, “What am I doing?”

It’s also a mental thing. If you mentally give up, you’re done, regardless of whether your body could go longer.

I’m personally trying to stretch to 4.5 days for the autophagy (assuming it takes that long – I keep reading different periods before it kicks in).

Laurie, 3+ years ago, I could workout a few times a week while fasting 4.5-5.5 days. I can’t do that any longer. I do like to workout after about 36 hours or so (say, eat Sunday, workout Tuesday morning), but if I’m fasting longer than that, I no longer work out. If you can workout at all while fasting that long, that’s pretty good.

[Justin_Jordan]

That’s been the case for me too, actually. So ADF ends up being relatively difficult

[Digital_Dave]

At 72 hrs. and heading down to the basement to work out for a while. Just been trying to stay busy during this weeks Fast.

[Bubra007]

Fasting until Friday morning. So far I’m 68 hours in. This is my second time fasting since being a keto It definitely is much easier this time than last!

[GentleBen]

I’m nearing the 30th hour of a 48-hour fast. But when I wake up tomorrow around 40+ hours I am planning on a cup of coffee with 1tbls of HWC followed by a long dog-walk of 6+ miles. Want to see how extended walks do on an extended fast. I walked 3.5 miles today with no ill effects.

I was going to make this a 72-96 hour fast but just learned we’re having kin overnight Friday and it wouldn’t work out.

So after this 48 I’ll just try to sneak in a 20-22 in there somewhere.

There’s always next week for another EF. And there’s going to be a lot of them between now and Christmas Week.

[Jezza]

I’ve been listening to The Complete Guide to Fasting (again). He says all kinds of things about hunger disappearing after Day 1 or Day 2. SO not true for me . I’ve been hungry every day of this fast (off and on, so the thing about hunger coming in waves is true). I’m in ketosis. I have fat to burn. I’m not feeling that bad. So that’s what’s keeping me going. No magical elimination of hunger.

And there’s going to be a lot of them between now and Christmas Week.

Same.

I think all the days are hard. I’m on day 3 and thinking to myself, “What am I doing?”

It’s also a mental thing. If you mentally give up, you’re done, regardless of whether your body could go longer.

Yeah…sigh. I have to constantly remind myself of “What am I doing?” GOAL…I have a goal…I am achieving my goal…that’s it. I can sulk all I want, but that’s it

Starting Day 6 today. Definitely winding it down today with broth. Same again tomorrow.

[Alex_PN]

Had a decent week so far with my evening OMADs, not feeling too bad at all actually bar one “hangry experience” earlier this week when I’d worked out, was really cold and then my dad decided to write off the kitchen for a few hours meaning my eating was delayed, I got really narky really quickly!

Scales seem to staying put around the 238/240 mark (220 is goal), but after tonight’s steak/pork dinner it’s my 36 hour fast through till Saturday! So I will be eating big tonight, loads of butter, loads of mayo loads of coconut oil.

Then it’s December!

have to say, generally, the longer I go, the more bouncy I seem to be feeling…