Day 4

[MikePollard]

Meal yesterday same as the day before - prawns and half tin of kippers. Back on full tin today. Still full on keto by the urine test.

Worked all day, then a 6 mile bike ride. According to all the conventional literature I should by now be crawling the walls, starving, deprived, doing myself damage etc etc.

Well I'm not!

Essentially I'm putting myself in the position of our ancestors in time of scarcity and drawing upon my stored reserves. Would it make sense for me to be in a position where all I could think about was food and be doing nothing about it? I don't think so. My body knows I have reserves to draw on, it also knows that I have a natural set point regarding energy balance and is happy to draw upon those reserves before giving me the message that this situation is reaching critical. Therefore, despite being a little uncomfortable everything is panning out as it should.

[Subtle_badger]

I am glad you are doing well.

Fasting is pretty easy if you are fat adapted. Your body is used to living mainly off fat and a trace of carbs, so when you are fasting it seems much the same to most of your body; your stomach knows it is empty, and your liver is busy with gluconeogenesis, but the rest of your body, it's just another day.

But you said something about potatoes, so are you normally low carb? If not, bravo!