Planning a New Year's Fast - Anyone Interested? page 11

[Ayla2010]

ill check out your journal BG. Do you have much to lose?

[badgergirl]

ill check out your journal BG. Do you have much to lose?

Thanks to a bout of emotional eating lasting three months (and culminating with Christmas) I have - at a guess as I never weigh - about 15-20lbs to dispose of. I'm tall - a sniff off 6ft - and can carry a bit of lard, but I prefer not to. I'm in Aus too and want to get back to my happy weight in time for Autumn/Winter when I wear trousers more often (I find trousers very unforgiving of weight fluctuations). So, if it takes two months to shift three months' worth of bingeing and bad choices, I'll be a happy camper.

As my journal records, I'm considering fasting during the week and eating more generously (and keto) at weekends, which is when I tend to graze anyway. I'll see how it goes.

[Ayla2010]

So not eating at all during the week? Any thing besides water?

[badgergirl]

No - progressive 24 hour fasts, broken with dinner. Each day dinner gets later to fit in a full 24 hours. Dinner is a keto-friendly meal of 600-700 calories. I also start my day with a coffee with a little milk. Water/black tea during the day. I've done this for three days (today being the third) and it's sitting well with me as a short-term - couple of weeks or so - reset. After that I think I'll reintroduce lunch!

I eat way, way more at weekends so this is something of a diet hack.

[Ayla2010]

That sounds like a good plan

[reallygravity]

Fast is still going on. Cannot believe that I am at 48 hours right now. Actually, what I really cannot believe that I am not hungry. I only feel hungry when I read or think about food. But when I am buzy, there are no food thoughts.

Drinking lots and lots of water. Fortunately, the bad (related to Xmas binging) bowel movements have passed. My tummy really must have hated me!

I am curious to see how long I can keep going. Like an experiment!

[reallygravity]

I have done this before and it works very well! Best of luck!

[Ayla2010]

really the only reason I want to do this, is to see if I can make the scales actually shift.
I am rarely hungry since eating moar fat anyway.

But at the same time I have a lot of aches and pains, related to dairy I think (and being so heavy) and I was curious to see if fasting would help that at all.

[TaraMae]

So my fast actually starts today.. we had lamb ribs and lombardo (it's like cabbage) with pine nuts and mushrooms with bits of ham last night for dinner (note: my mom, who made dinner, is NOT primal) so I just couldn't pass up that dinner. (and by that time I actually felt pretty hungry!)
Given that we'll probably be having pasta tonight, it's the perfect day for me to fast. I'll keep you updated!

[Ayla2010]

I had dinner tonight, and will fast for 48 hours if I can, with a BP coffee, and bone broth if I need it.
I guess I can work up to water only, but will see how I go with this