I’m a accidental faster. I typically do OMAD and if I skip a meal for whatever reason, I see how long i can stretch it out.
My record is a 3 day water+electrolyte fast. I end up doing this twice a year, since I’m not trying to schedule it.
What are your experiences?
That’s awesome! What kind of prep did you do for a 21 day fast?
Besides initial research and Dr. Fung books?
Just ate keto a week beforehand so I didn’t get the brutal hunger pangs you’d get coming off carbs. Solid advice turns out, and makes perfect sense since then you’re already in ketosis when you start the fast. I had tried and stopped too early a couple times before I got in the groove. The hunger urge in the hardest days (day 2 and 3) would overwhelm self control.
All I’ve really done post-weight loss is:
drop all junk food and sugar soda no cheat days. Zero or Sparkling is fine.
try to eat balanced, and I care more about protein now.
I think I was successful this time because I had a number of external reasons added to the pile recently to get into shape thanks to a certain mad king to the south. Honestly, the last fast the motivation was “I don’t want chronic heart burn while possibly rebelling.” lolol.
Thats a really good motivation. I haven’t read the fung books.
When you finished 21 days, how did you refeed? broth for a few days?
1st day was exactly that yep, home made too. Chicken.
2nd I started solids with a hard boiled egg and small garden salad both meals.
After that I basically just had smaller portions of what I wanted for a few more days. Felt fine.
This is not advice of course, I just did it my way while being aware of the dangers.