IMPORTANT: DO NOT PRACTICE MULTIDAY FASTS DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS AS IT MAY COMPROMISE YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM!
From mid January I experienced a six week weight loss stall. I weigh daily which means there is a lot of fluctuations, so to confirm what was going on, I uploaded my data weightgrapher.com which smooths things out allowing me to confirm the trend.
Yup. I wasn't losing weight. It was flat. So at midnight 28/29 February, after a dinner party where I ate and drank whatever I felt like, I started my first extend fast. It ended up being 62 hours.
Attached is the graph of my weight from weightgrapher. The lower line with all the decorations is my trend weight line over the last month - nicely sloping down. The blue line above is 28 days previously. You can see the flat line, then the dip while I fasted. The weight rebounded and then - when I got back on WOE that I had been on before - the gentle decline resumed, and is still going a month later.
Now, I still say now is not the time for extended fasts, but I decided to post this because I have the data at hand, and who knows what the future holds. I hope this will be useful for someone in the future, when we have got the best of this virus.
Note to admins, if you are around: can we add a topic for extended/multiday fasting?
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It’s interesting to see and hear what you did to break the stall. I’m going to wait till we move into our new normal - whenever that is - to try a fast. I just don’t feel I have the headspace to cope with it yet. I am trying a couple of days a week with reduced meal sizes now. I’m still feeling full with LCHF but trying to see if that minor change can help keep the weight loss going.
Me too. Am constantly amazed that I can feel so satisfyingly full between my two meals often having 18 hours without eating. Never a need to snack now.
I had some seeds and yogurt on Sunday, and a few hours later went for a 50km ride with only a cup of black coffee, and didn't even think about food. I was hungry when I got home, but not at all on the ride.
Good for you, Badger. That's fantastic to see immediate results and to take charge.
I've been thinking about doing the same. I've moved from OMAD to 20-4 or even 18-6 out of boredom and to keep BF company for lunch. 🙄 Lousy reasons to eat. My joints are swelling up and the pain is worsening.
I just can't get motivated to do a long fast when he's around and I'm cooking so much for others. Bleh.
I think you are at a hard place. Yes, fasting will reduce your inflammation, and your pain, but if you get CV19, you are going to want inflammation to fight the virus.
I think you should keep doing what you are doing for now. Better alive and creaky than the alternative.
Not to be daft, but help me understand "if you get CV19, you are going to want inflammation to fight the virus", please? I thought inflammation could act as an host to a virus? .
After your response, S_b, I searched for Inflammation related to virus.
"Inflammation is your body's way of protecting itself from infection, illness, or injury. As part of the inflammatory response, your body increases its production of white blood cells, immune cells, and substances called cytokines that help fight infection. Classic signs of acute (short-term) inflammation include redness, pain, heat, and swelling."
Indeed! You are correct. I do want the process of inflammation to happen (just prefer to not have it hang on in swollen tissues. 😋 )
It's easy to focus on the bad parts of inflammation.
Thank you for reminding me of the positive aspect of this.
I had a good example of it last summer, where something - maybe a mosquito - bit me. The next day I had a swelling on my hip, about the size of two hands, red and itching. I saw a doctor and he explained to me "Either you have an infection and your immune system is behaving in an appropriate way to fight it, or it's an allergic reaction and your immune system is overreacting. They both look the same."
I don't know what it was. Probably not actually a mozzie, because I found several other similar spots on my body later - hence how I knew it was allergic - so presumably something crawling under my clothes. Probably not a spider, anything can trigger my immune reaction.
I have an over reactive immune system, so I have had similar reactions before though this was the worst. But there is also a sewage works near where I was bitten, and sometimes the river has untreated sewage in it. A fellow rower got bitten on the river, had a similar red mark around it and two days later she was in hospital on an antibiotic drip. Hence the urgent but unnecessary visit to the GP
PS it gets more complicated: the patients struggling in intensive care might be being attacked by their own immune system, that's the theory behind Trump's chloroquine obsession. But the trick is to not end up in ICU, and you need a strong immune system for that to happen.
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