Fasting

I’ve done 1 to 3 days twice a month for the 16 months. I did a 5 day, twice. Attempted a 7 day, but couldn’t make it. The autophagy really does work. My skin cleared up and 2 annoying skin tags shrank in size, and dried up and fell off. Just giving the liver a break has to the best result. The liver is the work horse of our body.

At the beginning, I did miss sitting down to eat a meal. Not so much the food itself, but the act or ritual of enjoying a meal. I would also lose a lot of water weight. My pants would fit a little looser after a 3 day fast.

Thank you Dr. Sten Ekberg.

I go 16-18 hours between meals every day, and fast for 24 hours once a month or so. I've done it for years. I never liked breakfast.

I’m going to try this. I need to ditch 15 pounds.

I have only tried the sixteen hours, with an early dinner and skipping breakfast. It works and after a time you start to actually lose your appetite. Missing the actual ritual of a meal is the more difficult part in these things for me.

It’s worked wonders to keep the extra weight off of me!

I’ve done the intermittent fasting for a year and a half and lost 20 pounds. I only eat between noon and 8 pm. It’s surprisingly easy.

How do you think I keep my fabulous figure?

On Wednesdays and Saturdays I don't eat dinner. By the time I eat breakfast the next day it's been generally been 21 or 22 hours since I've eaten. I skip breakfast on Tuesdays so that by the time I eat lunch on Tuesday it's been 16 hours since I've eaten. Doing this is supposed to extend your telomeres.

I have done it (and want to do it again), several weeks at a time. The worst during the time are people suddently inviting you to eat all the time, surprise-buying you food and making a scene when you politely decline. Otherwise it gets easy after day 5.

R1 I owe my fasting routine to Dr Ekberg’s YouTube videos as well!

I wouldn't recommend fasting. Sometimes it goes too far.

Chris McCandless.

You people disgust me! Oh, fasting, I thought you were discussing fisting again.

It's so healthy for you!

Does anyone have a good resource/ trusted guide for doing this? I'd like to try it but my hunger becomes painful after a while. Trying to figure out how to make it less painful. TIA

R14- What is the longest you ever fasted for?

r15 Thanks for replying. About 12 hours.

R16- When I skip dinner on Saturdays and Wednesdays for lunch on those days I eat a generous portion of fish which digests slowly so it keeps my hunger at bay until I eat breakfast the next day. For lunch on those days I also eat a nice bowl of nuts as well. It took quite a long time of doing this many times before my body began to tolerate not eating for 21 hours. Maybe try skipping breakfast once a week- so that by the time you eat lunch it's been 16 hours since you've eaten.

Thanks so much, r17. I think I will try your suggestion!

[quote]Just giving the liver a break has to the best result.

Your liver (nor any other organ) does not need a "break". It isn't a factory worker. While we're here let me remind you it never needs a "cleanse", or a "reset".

R18- Good luck. Let me/us know on this thread how it went. They always say make small changes not big changes. Small changes are far more sustainable.

Do you drink water during that time?

R21- Drink as much water as you need to. It doesn't not affect the fasting state your body is in.

Can you do strength training while fasting? Will the body feed off muscle before the stored fat? If you're able to strength train while fasting, can you have a protein shake mixed with water?

And you can drink carbonated water, which helps in the evening. You can almost pretend it’s Sprite.

At what point does your body sense it is starving and shifts into Starvation Mode?