Best wishes. I hope all goes well for you at your appointment tomorrow. - very impressed by your 4 day fast. I hope you’ll post again to let us know how you are feeling as you progress through to the end of your fast.
Glad to hear you had good results. I know it’s a rhetorical question... but, Eat if you fancy eating! Eat if you need the nourishment! Laxatives probably take a lot of good stuff out of your system as well as the waste, I guess?! Take it easy 😊
I am pleased to hear the procedure went well and you are feeling so exhilarated!
I have read the 4-5 day fasts are really great for resetting the body (as long as you have plenty of unloved body fat to burn laying around!) Once a month for four days sounds hard.
Many experts say that you get most of the benefits of a fast in the first 72 hours... but, I think, it depends on why you fast.
I am 15% fat - so I think I do not need to lose any more weight.
I was thinking that, If I needed to lose more weight, I would fast 20:4 most days but eat nothing for two consecutive days a week... which would be a 68 hour fast... (and, I think, very much more beneficial than the Mosely 5:2: eating little or nothing on two non-consecutive days a week - but not so easy to do.)
I think that to get the benefits of weight loss, autophagy, longevity etc. an Alternate Week Fast (AWF) might be effective, fasting 7 days a fortnight... but you could fast any number of days a fortnight.
I do not feel too good today - but I do not know if that is due to lack of sleep, the heat, the procedure yesterday, or what.
I ate a bit more last week, to get my glycogen reserve up, and I have, so far, lost seven pounds in four days. I had to take laxatives - so my gut is totally empty... I will see where my weight stabilises next week. I think that one tends to lose half to one pound of fat per day on a water fast.
I still have not eaten since Monday Lunchtime... but I have done some shopping today, and I plan to start eating tomorrow. That will be 116 hours... or nearly five days.
Well done you! I hope you are feeling better today!
Sorry if I'm missing something, but, when we fast and are stable in ketosis, I do understand that the body goes right to burning excess body fat as fuel, and makes the feeling of hunger unnecessary for survival. But if you have so little fat to burn, what does it use as fuel?
I am 15% body-fat, and the minimum "essential fat" for a male over 60 is about 12%, so I do have a little in reserve.
The body uses autophagy to "eat" or recycle old cells, and rubbish, decreasing the requirement for food or fat reserves.
I need to work out if I want to be "fit" or "athletic"... and having a little more fat reserves helps all-cause morbidity in the old or elderly (I am 70).
If you run out of fat you start to burn muscle.
I have known four ladies who were very slim (three were about 6 stone) who, I think, starved to death when they became ill. They all knew that they were underweight, but could not gain weight.
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