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Having finished my first serious fast I have now been contemplating the process of returning to (mainly) normal.
Biggest change: I was suffering a bit of low energy and brain fog during the fast. This cleared up quickly once I ate a meal.
Starting eating again: I found it very hard to eat initially. I wasn't hungry and small amounts of food made me feel mildly nauseous and very uncomfortable around my stomach. As if I had eaten a huge meal. This gradually wore off after a couple of days and now I am getting "normal" hunger pangs. Perhaps a little more than when I started fasting. However it does suggest that this may be how people get sucked into eating disorders. Worry that you are overweight, stop eating for a few days, then find it impossible to resume normal eating because you feel sick when you try to eat.
Bowel movements: these gradually tapered off through the fast and by the end I wasn't producing anything. The process reversed over the first couple of post fast days. Logical as you have to eat and then wait a bit before something gets passed all the way through.
Weight: I lost nearly six pounds over the fasting days (including the morning after I started eating again) but over the next two days I have put two pounds back on. This isn't too bad if I can stabilise here - 168 pounds or 12 stone - but it does show that if you are fasting to get down to a target weight you should plan to overshoot by a few pounds to allow for the rebound.
BG readings - consistently low (4s and 5s) by the second day of the fast, but returned to normal (6s and 7s) very quickly after I started eating again.
Next fast:
That was great! Let's do it again very soon!!!
Perhaps not.
Before I started I was on a settled OMAD with coffee/butter/cream (Bullet Resistant Coffee) in the morning and no hunger pangs until mid afternoon. Dropping the mid afternoon meal was pretty easy because it was soon evening and time for bed. After the first day I was fasting adjusted.
At the moment I am feeling hungry by noon and still readjusting to eating meals so it feels a much bigger leap.
I think I might be ready in another week.
Summary: a positive experience and I did lose weight and I feel better for it. Certainly something to do again if I need to lose weight or more importantly stop creeping weight gain. There are reasons to be cautious, though. Fasting is not something to become addicted to.
Biggest change: I was suffering a bit of low energy and brain fog during the fast. This cleared up quickly once I ate a meal.
Starting eating again: I found it very hard to eat initially. I wasn't hungry and small amounts of food made me feel mildly nauseous and very uncomfortable around my stomach. As if I had eaten a huge meal. This gradually wore off after a couple of days and now I am getting "normal" hunger pangs. Perhaps a little more than when I started fasting. However it does suggest that this may be how people get sucked into eating disorders. Worry that you are overweight, stop eating for a few days, then find it impossible to resume normal eating because you feel sick when you try to eat.
Bowel movements: these gradually tapered off through the fast and by the end I wasn't producing anything. The process reversed over the first couple of post fast days. Logical as you have to eat and then wait a bit before something gets passed all the way through.
Weight: I lost nearly six pounds over the fasting days (including the morning after I started eating again) but over the next two days I have put two pounds back on. This isn't too bad if I can stabilise here - 168 pounds or 12 stone - but it does show that if you are fasting to get down to a target weight you should plan to overshoot by a few pounds to allow for the rebound.
BG readings - consistently low (4s and 5s) by the second day of the fast, but returned to normal (6s and 7s) very quickly after I started eating again.
Next fast:
That was great! Let's do it again very soon!!!
Perhaps not.
Before I started I was on a settled OMAD with coffee/butter/cream (Bullet Resistant Coffee) in the morning and no hunger pangs until mid afternoon. Dropping the mid afternoon meal was pretty easy because it was soon evening and time for bed. After the first day I was fasting adjusted.
At the moment I am feeling hungry by noon and still readjusting to eating meals so it feels a much bigger leap.
I think I might be ready in another week.
Summary: a positive experience and I did lose weight and I feel better for it. Certainly something to do again if I need to lose weight or more importantly stop creeping weight gain. There are reasons to be cautious, though. Fasting is not something to become addicted to.