When you know you are scheduling a multi-day fast, is there anything you do different leading up to it? Like extra fat the week before, or cutting out IF the week before, or any strategies that help an extended fast be successful (besides being fat adapted from keto diet)
Prep for an extended fast
BillJay
#2
Within the last few months I realized that my fasting schedule resulted in decreasing my average weekly calories far too much and I wasn’t eating enough when I did eat and it hurt my metabolism so my advice would be to make sure you’re actually eating enough before and after any fasting window to avoid any metabolic slowdown.
The sad thing was that my wakeup call actually came in 2015 when a metabolic analysis showed my resting metabolic rate at 1,400 calories and didn’t realize fasting had indirectly exacerbated the issue and only recently started properly fasting/feeding and my metabolic rate seems to be rising again.
Stephanie
(Stephanie Hanson)
#4
Megan Ramos mentions in Fasting Talk that fasting should be drastically different from eating days. She mentions that people who eat very little normally should increase intake for 3 days prior to fasting.
I’m on my third day of a feed-up. I begin fasting tonight. I want to test her theory.
Fiorella
#5
Yes, I do exactly what Bart does. Wrap food and put in freezer, boil/pickle eggs, render fats, etc. whatever may go bad during my planned fast gets addressed to reduce any waste to zero as much as possible.
I don’t change anything in my eating pattern the days leading up to the fast.