Fasting

[AlabamaMountainMan]

I'm debating on starting my long fast either the 27th or 28th. I'll break fast on the evening of the 3rd so i can slam burgers all day on the 4th.

Ooof, running a 5 or 6 day fast?

 

[doc holiday13]

Ooof, running a 5 or 6 day fast?

heck yes... give the digestion system a break, get a little autophagy to cleanout the body, reset teh food addiction so I'm not eating due to mental addiction. I'll probably take a few longs walks and talk with the creator of the earth and get on the same page him as to where/what he wants for me. Fasting is good for you all around

 

[*zap*]

Intermittent fasting has been good for me. Hormonal benefits are supposed to be high.
I think:
Don't be-become a fat slob.
Don't be soft.
Dump all processed foods.
Eat an adequate amount of protein and healthy fats.
Train aerobic capacity-often with long duration and low intensity. 10% of the total amount of aerobic capacity as high intensity.
Lift for overall strength. Do physically-mentally difficult things and conquer them.
Get very adequate sleep.

IMO, when your on top of all those things you will naturally gravitate to intermittent fasting.

Overall health-fitness should be #1.

Good luck out there.

 

[bozeman]

I am thinking after supper on this Sat (13th), go 72 hours, water with a little sea salt only.

 

[AlabamaMountainMan]

heck yes... give the digestion system a break, get a little autophagy to cleanout the body, reset teh food addiction so I'm not eating due to mental addiction. I'll probably take a few longs walks and talk with the creator of the earth and get on the same page him as to where/what he wants for me. Fasting is good for you all around

Nice, I started a 36 last night. Going to judge how I feel tomorrow morning and may push on to a 48 if I don't start feeling sick like last time. You ever deal with bad nausea? Not just being real hungry as I know that comes and goes. Last time I hit 42 I got real sluggish and just didn't feel right.

 

[ceerdub]

I have done a bit of it all and have landed on a version of the 16/8 (no breakfast) as a way to actually integrate it into my life for the past 3 years. I am not overly strict with it and I have learned that if I am going to go do a big exercise early in the morning that I need to eat something otherwise I will bonk. At the end of the day, like others have said, it is a way to reduce the calories I intake in a day overall. I am like a dog and will eat anything in front of me. Removing breakfast allows me to maintain a calorie input that I don't have to count every meal and allows me to stay within plus or minus 2 lb of my base weight. Good luck on the fast!

 

[doc holiday13]

Nice, I started a 36 last night. Going to judge how I feel tomorrow morning and may push on to a 48 if I don't start feeling sick like last time. You ever deal with bad nausea? Not just being real hungry as I know that comes and goes. Last time I hit 42 I got real sluggish and just didn't feel right.

I quit a fast once. Struggled to get it started and was feeling sick. Not sure what or why , but it happened. It started at the begining of a fast so i never even got 8 hours in.

I did a 4 day fast about 3 months ago and on day 4 I was experiencing a bit of light headedness. I could have toughed it out but called it quits early