Seriously, I may start a 3 day fast starting Monday.
If at least a couple of others want to take this journey, that'll help encourage me further to try it out.
Here's his original post: https://rdrama.net/post/79714/i-hit-72-hrs-fasted-water
Here's some tips if you do go ahead: https://www.ryanandalex.com/3-day-fast/
Namely, be careful after the 3 days (reintroduce food slowly for 1.5 days, especially when it comes to carbs), and before fasting, don’t be tempted to eat a final carb-heavy meal - just eat normally.
Here's what I thought was the most interesting part of that article:
At hour 56, just before 4 AM, I woke up. I couldn’t figure out why I woke up until I realized that my heart was racing.
My whole body reverberated with each beat and I checked my Apple Watch to see that my heart rate was at 95 bpm (beats per minute).
Just minutes before when I was sleeping, it was at my typical 55 bpm. My metabolic flip had switched. Ketosis had been reached. My mind felt sharp, clear, and wide awake.
I was no longer hungry. The glucose in my bloodstream must have run out, and my body switched from burning glucose to burning fat. My brain was running on ketones, and adrenaline kicked in.
This is what should happen when you know how to fast for 3 days and you follow the rules.
When reaching a fasted state, insulin plummets while adrenaline (for focus) and human growth hormone (to maintain muscle) skyrocket.
This happened so that our ancestors would be on their top game to hunt and find food. I had finally reaped the rewards of my fasting.
Nice little graph too:
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yeah that sounds like he just lost a bunch of water weight and literal food weight though. So he will just get it back when he starts eating and drinking again. No way he actually dropped 10lbs of fat, maybe like a 2lb mix of fat and muscle.
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Yep, slightly click-bait title from me there. In the article I posted, not eating any food whatsoever is more like losing 0.5lbs (0.2kg) per day, so over the three days, it'd be more like 1.5lbs (0.7 kg), which is still worth it I think! May encourage me to try a week, which is more like 3.5lbs (1.6kg), or even a month which would be 15lbs lost or nearly 7kg!
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With fasts like this, is water weight lost before the real fat drops off, or does it go kind of at the same time?
So at 160lbs myself, if I fasted for say a fortnight, would all the water-weight go within the first few days, and then the fat (mostly) follows after, or does the water go simultaneously as the fat's also going?
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