My best day yet: it's been 17 hours since I ate or drank anything.
I'm about to have my coffee and I'll probably eat soon after that.
I would have gone longer without food yesterday, but we had cookies in the house and I wanted to eat some before I finished my morning coffee.
Fast February Data Day 1: 14 hours (13 dry) Day 2: 15 hours (14 dry) Day 3: 17 hours (16 dry) Day 4: TBD (17 dry)
Its so easy to break a fast. I dont know how you can do a dry fast. I drink a lot of water when l fast.
Try it once without.
My experience was that I hit the point of thirstiness where I would normally drink something, but I never got any thirstier than that afterwards.
I think our bodies basically send us signals before they switch metabolic states. If you don't eat when your body first tells you that it's hungry, you'll just go into ketosis and stop feeling so hungry.
Similarly, if you don't drink when your body first tells you it's thirsty, it starts producing endogenous water.
Our bodies are lazy and they try to take the path of least resistance, but they're very resilient, too.
I always weighed myself in the morning and night because of my water intake. It kind of told me where l was weight wise during a fast. I started another fast yesterday, l am wondering when l will start ketosis? Last time it took 3 days before l felt like it started.
my weight readings are off because of water intake
no way my weight can fluctuate by 4 pounds in 2 days
@realBitcoinDog dropped four pounds since yesterday.
Congrats!
You should try to take your weight consistently. I try to take it right after l wake up. Usually it is a pretty good dry weight.
Really?
What signal do you go off of, to gauge when you're into ketosis?
Start losing weight, and a metallic taste in your mouth when you wake up? Are there better signals?
metallic taste can't be a good sign?
The metallic taste signifies that your body has entered ketosis. There isnt anything bad about it.
I think it just has to do with the different electrolyte balance the body maintains while in ketosis.
I don't know. I had just been relying on what I've heard about timing.
The taste thing is interesting. I'll pay more attention to that. There's a taste difference I've noticed with dry fasting that might be the same thing.
Its the most noticeable when you wake up. I think it is different for each person, but the more you trigger your body, the easier it will be able to go into that state.
Yeah
Something similar happens to me. I am a street vendor, so I wake up early and I suffer from a loss of control. I get hungry and thirsty at different times, which is fatal for me. I really don't know how to improve it?
My friend, I congratulate you, maybe at some point I will try to do this, but I am thin and maybe if I do it it will disappear hahaha.
You should probably look into what benefits there are for people who don't have excess body fat. The mechanisms of this type of fasting largely revolve around burning stored fat.
I promise to do it, although I think I would do it more for spiritual growth than to lose weight.