@meganjramos et. al.
I enjoyed so much you pod cast and your speech at ketofest. Thanks for all you do to help the community!!!
I have been fairly strict keto for about 6 months with about 1.5 months of zero simple carb before that. I am 6’4" and @ the beginning of the year I was ~300lbs. I lost about 3-3.5lbs/week fairly consistantly for the first several months. I then did IF, followed by a couple of 1 day (36hr.) fasts and a 2 day fast, kind of a natural progression. I then went on a holiday for about 1.5 weeks wehere I had limited dietary options and was not horrible but not good. Since coming back I have been keto and it took a week or two for hunger patterns to feel right. I’ve done a couple of 1 day fasts and a two day fast. However, my weight loss seems stalled. After the 2 day fast I gained nearly all of it back over the next 5 days. So last Friday I did a 36hr (1 day) fast and Monday I did a 1 day fast… So I’m thinking this is “switching it up” by book ending my weekends with 36hr fasts. It’s perhaps a different way to get weight loss to resume? I’m about 235lbs now and I would like to shoot for 195-205, a good cycling weight for my height… Oh, I’m 55yrs old with a family history of diabetes. My fasting glucose is high end of normal 110-120ish and my hbA1C is a bit high at 5.8%.
I’m thinking the idea of “switching it up” is to introduce metabolic “confusion”? Is there some reference material about the science of switching it up" or is it from your observations of the different methods you try to help your patients. I could roll into MWF fasting if that made sense and I still do not progress this way…
I’m a hair OCD and fairly pattern oriented. So it will require conscious effort on my part to switch it up. I’m also a gadget/techy guy who tracks weight systematically every day (along with RHR) to extract short term and medium term dietary/exercise impact to my health.