Does anyone Fast?

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My experience is it’s good, it’s healing a lot things in my body, my neck especially which my neuro surgeon told me would only get worse.

Autophagy will clean up your body from all sorts of damage as well as just general junk like scar tissue, cholesterol in your arteries, malfunctioning cells like cancer, the mayo clinic has prolonged theblife of a mouse to twice the norm, by increasingits mitochondrial bacteria, they say you can physically reverse the age of your body, just as with stem cell treatment. Long fasts do suppress the immune system a bit though, so you can pick up viruses a little easier when fasting past 48 hours.

If you don’t have a weight problem you could just try doing an 18 hour fast once a week, but you are going to have to work up to it rather than jump straight into a 16 hour fast, but I think you could probably correct a lot of health problems just cleaning up your diet, and reducing sugar and refined carbs to a lower intake, these are the foods along with processed foods that cause all the damage.

If you want to increase weight so you can fast, snack on nuts, there is 3500 calories roughly in a pound of fat, you can get te average calorie consumption for a day in 3 and a half cups of walnuts or macadamia. EVOO is a great calorie booster and cleans out your ateries and lowers cholesterol, fats make you feel fuller longer. I go through 1/2 to 3/4 of a liter of EVOO a week on salads plus coconut oil in my curries.

If you eat a lot of carbs then you will get hungry a lot, as soon as your blood glucose drops from a spike you body starts signaling for more, as it doesn’t like to switch over to fat and keytones, as you have trained it to know its getting carbs every 2 or 3 hours.

The classic Chinese meal syndrome, an hour or two later you want another one or your attacking the leftovers. White rice is not really any different to sugar as far as your body is concerned.

Yes it does, as well as boost your metabolism, and there are other things like spices that will do the same, they stimulate your mitochondrial bacteria to uncouple and multiply.

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Thanks a ton @Shadey
I always love your insight.

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today was my first day without carbs and lets just say my tolerance for shit went below zero. be careful with that transition. had plenty energy but just no control emotionally. still not going back to being a slave to 30g carbs every few hours though just nobody likes the feeling of not being themselves.

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I fasted for Yom Kippur. 24 hours no food or water or weed. The no weed was the hardest part. I had cravings to smoke all day and when I finally did after the 24 hours, I didn’t feel super high like I thought I would. It just made the withdrawal feeling go away. I lost nine pounds. I hate fasting and only do it as a religious ritual but it’s unhealthy not to drink water. My body is used to half a gallon of water a day under normal times.

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My favorite is basically 23/1… or OMAD (one meal a day). Generally when I’m working I don’t bother eating, so just have dinner, so probably close to 23.5/1 I guess. As long as I don’t eat anything during the day I’m fine, so the meal has to be dinner. Great way to drop extra pounds. Body basically does a mini-ketosis everyday.

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Yea I went through that, one problem is your gut is dominated by carb loving bacteria, they will create hormones that cause cravings for carbs until the fat loving ones establish dominance, so those hormones can trigger mood swings. Remember sugar and refined carbs are an addictive drug worse than Cocain so there are also withdrawal symptoms.

When I come off weed for a tolerance break, I will go up to about 3 weeks to see if my pain levels have increased and see what other things are doing, depending on what I am doing and my pain levels it’s usually Mrs Shadey telling me to go and have a puff as my tolerance for shit takes a big nose dive and I turn into Mr angry lol.

Keep it up man, the hardest bit is the first step making the change. The second is finding replacements for the foods you are no longer eating. Food gets a little repetitive until figure that out, but YouTube has tones of stuff for keto meals.

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man i remember this from my college days way back. it was like 4-5 days and she hated weed but shed be telling me to smoke. that was before pain management became a major part of my life, and at some point i turned that mental roughness that comes with a tolerance break or just basically pure adrenaline into a pain reliever. and its worked, maybe better than hash, but for sure better than opiates and even anxiety meds (valium is maybe the second best pain reliever for me). now its just all muddled though, am i angry or am i pain? i couldnt tell you some times i just need the rush to keep moving and stay upright and it transforms into something else sometimes. but the cure to settle it down when it gets out of control is always ganja.

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I do kinda, I skip days sometimes.
Helps my hernia to keep a
Empty gut.
Also type 2 runs in the family
So I stay away from sweets.

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I gained like 25lbs to my already plump figure during the winter of 2020 into the lockdowns.
So after catching the Og Covid strain in November of 20, I decided to change my life around.

I began with a 6 day fast and then began alternate day fasting.
I went from 275 to about 200 in 9 months.

I have played around with it on and off and my weight has krept back to 230.
So about 2 weeks ago, I decided to start fresh with another 6 day fast then alternate on off again.

It has been hard this time with about 6 pounds lost in 2 weeks.

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I need to, it’s good for the body

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Not sure if you changed your diet as well as fasting, but when you come off a clean diet, and back to more processed foods, your inflammation levels jump drastically. Your body learns quickly what’s going on when you re start to fast.

When you started gaining weight again you might have gone back to being insulin resistant. You may need longer to get back into a ketogenic state, try cutting down the carbs especially sugar and refined carbs like bread, pasta and pastries as well as foods heavy in starches like rice and potatoes ad eat more fiber rich whole foods.

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I believe you are right. My inflammation levels were high and energy levels low.
I suffered from inflamation in my elbow and knee last summer, along with catching a cold and then Covid for a second time.
I had gone nearly 3 years without any sickness, before that.

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Hey everybody. I have been intermittently fasting for about 40 years. I started after I read that caloric restriction could extend your life. I think the researcher was named Roy Walford. I did not like caloric restriction because I was hungry a lot. I found that if I ate one large meal I would only get hungry about the time that I was supposed to eat. I found out 10 years later that I had stumbled onto intermitent fasting. I am almost 60 and still weight the same as I did in high school. I have arthritis ( genetic) in my hands and a lot of injuries from living but otherwise I feel like Im still 18. :grin:

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what’s the recipe you use for this? i’d rather ask than just find one online.

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The basic recipe that I first started with was from a booklet by Stanley Burroughs called The Master Cleanse. The recipe calls for fresh lemon juice, cayenne pepper, grade b maple syrup, and warm water. All of those things serve a purpose for the function of the cleanse. It’s a pretty good booklet, and it helped me a lot.
But now when I do it I just do what I want. I’ve done just water for two weeks. I’ve used coffee. But as far as what I’d suggest - lemon water with some maple syrup is nice (lower grade maple syrup is better because it has some minerals that get extracted with higher grades). The cayenne pepper is good to make you feel like you have something in your stomach (it also aids in ridding mucous from your stomach).
Go easy on yourself the first time you do it. It’ll take three or four days before Ketosis kicks in. Don’t rush out of it (I’ve done that before and it can be really horrible - I pigged out after one fast and felt absolutely awful, lolz). It’s pretty cool once you’re in it. It’s not what you imagine, might be akin to microdosing, but still not that either. It’s cool. I love it.
wow. I’m rambling. I’ll end with this most excellent article that I’ve ever read about fasting

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thanx. i’ve been intermittent fasting since lent began but am going on a silent retreat at gethsemani and wanted to be most receptive to a catholic vision quest with the monk fast i started yesterday. i was surprised at how easy it’s been all day yesterday then woke up with a slight headache. i’ve been drinking one cup of black coffee then water all day and 250ml of v8 in the evening. a couple of propels for electrolytes also. i was reading about how it helps clear the mind as well as all the health benefits so decided to switch. it’s also easier to just eat nothing when traveling than trying to fit my meals into the window. thanx for the recipe. have a great weekend. i think mine will be fun.

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that was interesting. i ended up going four days on water, propel, and a cup of v8 daily. i didn’t really notice the hunger til it went away on sunday morning, the 4th day. that’s when i had my experience. i was seeking a catholic vision quest after all, and i got it, physical manifestation. it was highly emotional. i was in a monastery after all. it was great.

edit: you can tell i’m high. as soon as i posted this i read the comment directly above and saw no need to spell out the diet again. dammit. oh, well.

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I do. Every two or three months, I do a 96 hour water only. On a daily basis, I eat only between 2 pm and 8 pm on most days. On this kind of routine, I went from 186 lbs. in 2017 to 132 lbs. today, without major fluctuations.

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Autophagy – the amazing process of “clean up” that our cells undergo after fasting (usually for a minimum of at least 16 hours). Old, dead and damaged cells are reprocessed or recycled into usable stuff or eliminated from the body altogether. It’s quite amazing, and it’s the primary reason I fast. I think autophagy is almost a built-in human defense against cancerous diseases – but it relies on us going hungry every once in a while (which is what I think the body actual needs).

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What got you into fasting? And why did you stay with it? I’m impressed with your regimine

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