New month, new topic.
I’m just holding the line lately. I think I would like to drop a few lbs. again. So will up my fasting game this month.
How is everyone else doing?
OCTOBER 2025 IF/EX Fasting chat
Janie
(Jane)
#3
Will finish up on a 72-hr fast tomorrow at lunch. Wasn’t a particularly hard fast this time (not always the case).
About 53 hours in right now and numbers are:
Glucose: 100
Ketones: 2.5
GKI: 2.5
Needed this fast for a “reset” to eliminate the carb-creep sneaking up on me. 
Janie
(Jane)
#4
Thankfully I live on a remote, rural piece of land and we don’t get any trick or treaters, so won’t have to deal with leftover candy laying around after tomorrow night.
Hugh_Walter_Jennings
(Hugh Walter Jennings)
#5
Had to look up GKI
This morning my first BG reading was 94. My blood ketones were 1.0
So if I did the math right GKI is 5.2
Is that high, low, or normal ?
Edit : looked into it further. AI says I’m in a good range
Janie
(Jane)
#6
5.2 is great for a normal ketone diet. I only check my blood glucose and ketones when I am fasting because I enjoy seeing the numbers.
Many here will say the ketone pee sticks stop working for them after a few months, but that doesn’t apply to everybody. After nearly 8 years of keto they still work for me and track my ketone meter. So… I use them occassionally since they are much cheaper than ketone test strips, but it doesn’t give me any data numbers - just a… yes you are on track or oops - too many carbs (or wine LOL).
Janie
(Jane)
#7
Made it through another fast and will be breaking it at lunch today for 72 hours. Not hungry but 72 hours is enough for me.
Glucose: 82
Ketones: 2.2
GKI: 2.0
Will probably do another fast the week before Thanksgiving, just because. I will be back from a business trip (7 days, 12-hr shifts but not nights this tiime - yay).
Driving to Houston to spend it with my sons and grandsons and DIL is cooking so will be easy for me. No taste-testing, no leftovers.
