The start of my 1st EF journey

(Cody) #1

After some careful consideration, I started my Egg Fast yesterday, and I honestly expected to be hungry after going from a Keto diet to 2 eggs a meal(with added butter or fat depending on how I’m cooking them, and a mozzarella cheese stick). I plan on continuing it for at least 5 days as long as all bodily systems hold up because I’ve never fasted before so I don’t know the extent of how it will affect me.

I’ve been reading through some posts here and saw several warnings to not go right back into a LCHF diet because of certain weight gains. In another post I made about the stall I was experiencing, someone mentioned how they transitioned by cutting down on the eggs they had in their meals, and replacing them with Keto foods progressively.

Is this a good way to go about doing the transition?

(Sonia A.) #2

I found this article on how to transition back to keto. I hope it helps.

(Barbara Greenwood) #3

I’ve never done an egg fast (don’t like eggs enough) but I am just starting a kefir fast. I’ll watch your updates with interest

(Cody) #4

Just a quick update. Earlier upon driving to my Mother-in-Laws for a housewarming party, I started feeling hella dizzy, and I didn’t know why. So I started thinking about what I had done differently in my Keto from when I first started my Egg Fast, and it hit me that I wasn’t getting nearly enough sodium as I needed to be so I happened to find some soy sauce packets in the car and drank them and start to feel a little more mental clarity a short while after.

After getting to our destination, I asked for some table salt, and put some in my water, and drank that. I began feeling like my old self shortly afterwards. I can’t believe I didn’t even think about my sodium intake. Hindsight is 20/20, as they say.

(Cody) #5

Quick Update. Woke up just earlier to make my meals for the day, drained the system, weighed myself afterwards. No change in weight it seems save for a few ounces here and there…in the wrong direction. Today’s meals will all three be Scrambled Eggs cooked in Bacon grease with a Jalapeño cheese stick.

I hope I’m going to get back into Ketosis again soon or all of this will have been for naught. I miss Bacon.

(Barbara Greenwood) #6

Are you back home now? I’ve read that table salt (while better than nothing) is not as good as more natural types of salt because it is so highly refined. We benefit from having the other minierals that you find in e.g. Himalayan or sea salt.

(Cody) #7

No, I’m at work right now, so regular household table salt is all I have access to right now. I tested myself again with a keto stick, and I still have the same amount ketones in my urine as when I first started my egg fast which according to the packaging, is just a small amount. So I guess that means that I might be in ketosis, but it’s not really being effective right now. Originally, I had only planned to do my egg fast for 5 days, but if it doesn’t start working, I might have to extend it longer. I mean, it’s not really an issue, but but I would like to get back into my regular keto eating habit. This is my 3rd day of egg fasting, and I had lunch a little over 2 hours ago, and tested myself roughly 20 or so minutes ago. I don’t know if this kind of result is normal with ketones and ketostix, but I really hope that it puts me back into gear.

(Cody) #8

Just a quick update since I’m off work now. Everything was going good today up until a little past my lunch meal. Shortly after I had my Scramble Eggs (cooked with a little bacon grease), and a mozzarella cheese stick, one of my old enemies reared its ugly head. Acid Reflux. I’d forgotten how painful it can be. I use to get it more often before I started Keto, but haven’t had it in a long while.

The only thing I could think to do while I was at work was to keep drinking water to water down my stomach acid(funny thing, stomach acid gets frothy when it’s watered down and you burp it up. Well, for me at least. Had forgotten about that too.) to keep it subsided until my last meal of the night which was again Scrambled Eggs (cooked with Bacon grease), and cheese.

Even now I can feel the disgusting beast trying to claw it’s way out. Day 3 is done at the very least so I hope I can at least hold out until this stall that I’m in breaks soon. I’m doing what I’m doing to better myself for the sake of my son.

I was pushing 340, but I’m broad and 5’10"-5’11" so I could pull the weight ok enough. When i woke up this morning, drained the system, and weighed myself, I was still at 297.something. Granted, that seems like a lot, but I have to lose more. I NEED IT! Keto is the addiction, and weight loss is the drug.

I want to be there to see my son graduate, to get married, to have kids of his own…so I do this for him. If it’s within my power, I will not leave my son without a father.

(Doug) #9

Right on, Cody, let’s live better and longer. I was 340 at my heaviest, and the last time on the scale it was right at 300. Probably in the high 290s now too. Cheers, man.

#10

Don’t fret over the color of the ketostix, it’s more like a yes/no result than a meaningful measurement of blood ketone status.

Sometimes the reflux is a result of too little or weak stomach acid, which causes the opening of the stomach not to close properly. Perhaps when you get home you could try some apple cider vinegar if you have some. Or some pickle juice, which will be salty too.

(Cody) #11

Morning update(well my morning. I work nights so I shift a normal schedule forward by however many hours). Drained the system, and saw that my weight has gone up instead of the much hoped down. Is this kind of thing normal? If any of you have done this, have you experienced this? I drank my waters, I constantly move at work, I’m getting roughly 5.4-7 Carbs a day, I’m almost sure that I’m getting enough fat(almost), so there’s that.

(Cody) #12

Okay, so just a quick question to anyone that still paying any attention to this thread. What should I do, if I see no weight loss on this egg fast, but instead see weight gain? That’s what I saw this morning, much to my dismay.

What are your guys’s thoughts? Also, after I get home from work, and wake up in the morning, or afternoon in my case most likely because of my work hours, I shall do my normal wake up routine, and weigh myself again, and make a small update. I really hope that it will start working, because I really miss bacon.

(Sonia A.) #13

I’ve never done an EF. But weight isn’t a good indicator of fat loss or gain. Your weight can fluctuate from one day to another and for different reasons (dehydration, bowel movements, salt intake…).

You shouldn’t worry about one reading. A better indicator of weight loss is measuring your waist, chest, hips, thighs and arms. That’s what I do. Sometimes, my scale tells me I’ve gained several pounds and when I measure myself, I find that nothing’s changed. Another good sign of weight loss is how you feel in your clothes.

Don’t obsess over the scale’s numbers, they only lead to madness :smile:. So KCKO, or I should say keep calm and egg fast on :wink:.

(Sonia A.) #14

If you’re really worried about weight gain, you can eliminate cheese from your EF to see if it’s a problem to you.

(Cody) #15

I was only eating 3 ounces of cheese a day so I didn’t really expect it to make much difference. The cheese sticks were my main source of calcium intake.

(Sonia A.) #16

There’s calcium in eggs.

https://www.incredibleegg.org/eggcyclopedia/c/calcium/

But, like I said, it’s not a necessity to cut the cheese. But, for some people, it causes inflammation and water retention.

(Cody) #17

Small update. Ketone levels are in the medium level now Instead of small. Weight is dropping slightly from what it was, but I’ve been having some annoying intestinal effects. Yeah, lets put it that way. :stuck_out_tongue:

(Cody) #18

earlier today was the end of the 5th day of my egg fast. If I had just planned to do it for 7 days, should I start beginning the transition period back to regular Keto?

(Barbara Greenwood) #19

It’s up to you, surely? I saw a link recently for a transition back to keto, which I think took 3 days to get you back to normal eating. You could start that now… or complete 7 days of the EF and then transition.