Does anyone Fast?

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I was drinking a bottle of vodka a day and smoking 2 packs. Cholesterol 440, BP 150/95, and 186 pounds. I’m only 5 foot 7. The drinking eventually made my anxiety go through the roof and I fought that for years until it got too bad. Went to the hospital one night, got 3 Valium and had to take a cab home at 2 am. I never drank again, after 29 years of daily.

That’s what got me going.

Now, I’m 12 years sober from alcohol, which was all (and everything) I needed. Cholesterol 150, BP 105/68, and 132 lbs. I walk 3 miles a day with a 25 lb. pack.

So I’m back to being too skinny. Haha this time, though (40 years later), I’ll bulk up a bit perhaps and hit my body fat goal of 12%.

Not bad for 57.

I’m a lucky man, though. What I did should’ve killed me. It would’ve killed a lot of people, and it has, with a lot less abuse than I gave myself. I have a 3 mm black dot on one lung. My liver enzymes are perfectly fine – after years of 6 or 7 nights/week of drinking 14+ beers a night.

The best I can figure, I was kept alive for something. So I try to be a good person and I keep my eyes open. :slight_smile: If I can get even just one person up and out of their mess, too, it’ll be worth it.

Weed is a part of that. And getting the munchies – and then sitting right the hell in that and staring it in the face. It literally began as a battle of wills, and I won (of course). It’s like how – years after quitting – I’d drive to the grocery store, go to the booze aisle, and take a heavy, cool bottle of vodka (just $19.95( in my hands and hold it. And beat it again. I began to practice the fine art of telling myself I was a fat ass who could live off his own body for month – without shaming myself in the process. I asked myself for an honest answer about whether or not I really, truly needed that 3/4 pound ham and swiss so I could fill out forms all afternoon.

It kind of became a way of mastering myself.

Believe me: after what I’m done to myself, there’s no better feeling than drinking clear, cold water only, hearing my stomach growl, breathing deep, feeling my heart beat and being totally and completely at peace.

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I’m a mostly fasting person, mostly one meal a day in the evening and some fruit or some nuts to keep me going, not for any particular woo woo health kick reason, just I just don’t feel hunger pains that much and so ignore them and just put off eating until I can’t avoid it anymore. Just dealing with it once a day is enough! You can get pretty good at reading your own blood sugar levels just by how you feel, without having to stab your finger, so I tend to use that as my food drive. Although…… munchies definitely makes all of that go out the window, lol.

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The latest propaganda.… :roll_eyes:

According to the researchers’ presentation (PDF, 373KB, 1 page), people who limited their eating window to less than eight hours a day had a 91 per cent (almost double) increased risk of dying from heart and circulatory diseases, compared to those who had a more typical eating window of 12 to 16 hours.

This research has not yet been ‘peer-reviewed’,

Can intermittent fasting double your risk of cardiovascular death? | BHF - BHF.

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Idk man I think it’s bullshit. I only give myself a 1 hour window and I’ve done this for 2 years. Lost 120lbs in the first year. Started working out, now I’m 185 and lifting every other day. I feel just fine lol

Edit: my heart murmur complete vanished 6 months into my extreme(ish) fasting

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I used to drink alcohol like that. Now all my old “drinking buddies” are dead. I think the only reason I am still alive is genetics. Im not bragging. I just think my body was able to deal with it better. Now my life is peacefull. Boring but peacefull. :rainbow:

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I fat occasionally and generally only eat twice per day. Have a search for a guy called Cole Robinson, he’s on YouTube as snake diet (Warning, he swears a LOT) anyway, he promotes this stuff called snake juice which is just electrolytes, sodium and potassium in water. It was a game changer for me, it made going days and days without food effortless. I used to get really tired after the first day, but with the snake juice my energy just went up and up. I’m not sure how people fast but still eat an apple a day or put honey in their water, that just puts sugar in the blood and blocks the body from accessing its fat stores which is what the body should be running on when fasting.

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I saw that last week, it’s a load of bollocks, nothing substantiated, all just association. Probably paid for by big pharma, they keep trying to scare people away from getting healthy and off their drugs.

A lot of people make this mistake, you have to keep your sodium and potassium up especially if you are on a low carb diet as well as fasting. Once you get off processed junk food, your sodium levels drop considerably, if your kidneys are functioning OK 3000 to 4000 mg of sodium is recommended, getting the RDA for potassium is hard unless you supplement, I use potassium Iodine to boost my intake which also helps keep my thyroid functioning well. A study I saw a couple of weeks ago shows low parathyroid hormone functioning inhibits vitamin D receptor function stopping the body fully using vitamin D.

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That’s really interesting. I have Hashimotos so I’m very conscious of iodine, I take a thyroid energy supplement which contains potassium iodide. Potassium is essential but can be dangerous, which is why most supplements are capped at 99mg. I supplement with potassium citrate powder which just makes it “available” to be taken up to reach optimal levels. It’s much harder to overdo it with the citrate form of potassium. It would be like overeating avocados.

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Isn’t peaceful awesome, man? Good on you – glad you’re well. I agree with you absolutely. I’ve half Irish and half Eastern European – my mom says it’s the Iron Polish Genes.

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I believe in the power of autophogy.
Fasting cured a skin condition that I had on my shin for a few years. It just went away.
2 years ago I had a white scaly spot develop on my ear.
I figured it might be pre carcinoma, so I applied Rick Simpson oil and alternate day fasted and it fell off within 2 weeks.
I just broke an 84 hour fast and plan to pull another couple of 1 day eat and 2 days fast, for the next couple of weeks, with tons of activity, to shake some winter weight off and tune up my blood pressure.

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lol. Dear Researchers: You know who else doesn’t eat often? Dying people. . .

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Also just just make sure to take vitamins if you’re gonna taste for a long period of time. There’s definitely some brain fog action for the first 30 days if you don’t lol

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I tend to fast often. Not necessarily on purpose, but it just seems to be how my eating habits seem to ebb and flow. Occasional large meals, usually a dinner. Many blessings and much love

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I use potassium citrate as well as magnesium citrate, citrate helps dissolve kidney and oxalate stones.

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Not my type of thing really…

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is it normal when fasting or when just finishing up a fast to just dump your guts when you take a crap? i mean it’s convenient but starts to get to be a pain in the arse, literally and figuratively. i must be doing something wrong, as usual.

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If you don’t get your gut bacteria started with a pre biotic foods and eat something hard to digest then yes you will have problems. It’s best to break your fast and start eating low carb fruits, veggies and berries, yogurt helps as well get your bacteria levels back up and running.

When you fast the little tentacles (forgot what they are called) that line your gut and absorb nutrients shrink down and can get overwhelmed by too much food in one go, so small meals are better.

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yep, sounds like my normal m.o., just do it. i mean i did a lot of research first, and this isn’t my first fast for lent, i just switched gears in the middle so i could get that vision quest then got sick and decided to stop fasting sooner than i was prepared for. thanx.

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they call them cilia in the lungs but no idea if that’s the same for intestines.

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I’ve always only eaten one large meal a day. I’ve never eaten breakfast and I hardly ever eat a lunch. I drink a lot of whole milk throughout the day. I’ve been on a calf diet my entire life.

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