Posted on 05/12/2022 2:12:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yes.
If you get to the point during fasting that you are no longer hungry then you know you are about to croak. I last from dinner until break-fast.
That's not true at all.
And how do you think homo sapiens still exist, when they did have guaranteed regular meals?
50 g carbs? Yikes, how do you do that? I am at an average of 250 g / day.
No doubt.
Stay tough, focused, exercise and live.
Get fat and lazy, die.
Ymmv.
Great article (and well researched with citations, too). Thanks for posting.
I had my colonoscopy on Monday. Went from Sunday 1 pm to Monday 3 pm without eating (except for the gallon of “prep”). So I hit 26 hours with no problems. I was surprised that I didn’t feel more hungry at the end of the 26 hours.
Maybe it’s time to try this on a more frequent and rigorous basis to see what results I can achieve.
Did they put you in the twilight zone, or you were fully under?
It was supposed to be Twilight Zone (I think), but I was completely out. Don’t remember a thing. He gave me something to relax me, then added the anesthetic and BOOM, I was gone. No counting down from 100.
That is interesting. I would love to hear the results.
I went on a supervised very low calorie diet for 2 months. Was great except like with gastric bypass people there is significant hair loss.
I would imagine there is hair loss also with fasting?
I had twilight zone pre-COVID, but my neighbor said since the pandemic, they only do fully out.
Probably to keep you from coughing and spreading disease. I had my mask on the whole time — just a paper mask, not an N95 properly fitted. It’s the longest stretch I’ve worn a mask since this thing began!
I have heard that if you take biotin you won’t lose your hair.
https://perfectketo.com/keto-hair-loss/
“50 g carbs? Yikes, how do you do that?”
Discipline. Over time it gets easy, but you need a plan and you need to rigoursly track all that you eat. I recommend strongly the app myfitnesspal. No diet succeeds if you leave yourself aimlessly guessing at what you’re doing throughout the day.
I’m a faithful user of MyFitnessPal. I’m happy to hold 200-250 carbs. I admire what you are achieving. You must have a very high amount of protein and fats.
Thanks for posting this.
I’m citing this article as a reference in my book once I stop laughing.
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In contrast, this was Donald Trump at age 65 in 2011:
Not exactly the picture of health one would imagine of a man who not only failed to achieve any significant breakthroughs in Alzheimer's research before retiring - to state nothing that the solution is literally staring him in the face - but a man who "hasn’t had breakfast in 40 years and does aerobic exercise before breaking his 18-hour fast to optimize the health benefits."
He looks like hell warmed over for being only 65 while preaching the health benefits of all his 'discoveries' as a sidebar to his day job...a career which can only be measured by degrees of failure rather than successes.
If he wasn't so myopic, he might have retired with a true breakthrough on human health, and maybe the author of the piece below could actually have cited some tangible achievements in his long career. It's sad, really.
Ping!
This is a key point that I try to explain to people in my family and co-workers about fasting when they ask about feeling hungry. Your hunger plateaus after a certain amount of time that may vary from person to person and then begins to fade.
The longest fast I have ever done is 132 hours (5 1/2 days - Sunday afternoon to the following Saturday morning), but I was no hungrier on day 5 than I was on day 2. This makes my monthly 72-hour fasts fairly easy.
The key is staying hydrated with water and possibly adding some salt to the water to stave off a headache.
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