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Day 2! The first 3 days are the hardest. Good luck reaching your goal!

The 2nd lift worked perfect!

Thank you! I watched them all myself and had to figure it out on my own. It is cool to hear my video was helpful.

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Ha!

I just take daily walks but no hard training.

Thanks for the like and the compliment! I appreciate it.

When I'm fasting I only take daily walks and try to let my body focus on healing.

You should work out and do weight training for extra fat loss, and remember to take creatine to preserve your muscles

@@DMTEntity88 When doing a prolonged fast more than 4 days, hard training can cause greater muscle loss, is what I've heard.

She is and yes it would be best if she walked more for sure.

That is a perfect plan. I'm doing something similar. The hard part for me is maintaining it for the long term. Sometimes I need a break and I have to be careful to not derail my progress. Good luck hitting your goal! Keep grinding!

I know right.

Good luck on your fast! You are correct, don't let the number on the scale bother you daily your weight does weird things sometimes on a day by day basis.

Thanks for the comment. Fasting is something I only do once a year to test myself and build my discipline. But to get fit and stay healthy I try to follow a healthy diet on a regular basis.

Aww thanks!

Ha! I wish, I'm still working on it but getting closer.

That's awesome! Congrats on 5 days! We are so similar, I started with 3 day fasts and worked my way up. When I started fasting I scavenged UA-cam for videos about other people fasting. It is cool to know how other people felt on each day of their fast. OMAD worked awesome for me after my fast. I did it for 6 months and I always felt like the fasting part was easy knowing I was going to feast later that day. The hardest part was transitioning from fasting to eating, I have 3 days where temptation to binge is high. Good luck hitting 7 days Finish strong!

Right! lol

That was a mistake I made, I did not take any electrolytes. Now I know you should take electrolytes it relieves a lot of the side effects and makes the fast much safe.

True! After the fast I avoided processed foods and I felt a lot healthier.

The first 3 days are the hardest with headaches and insomnia. After the 3rd day I have no shortness of breath. Energy comes and goes, I may have times of low energy but they pass. I only get dizzy if I stand up too fast.

Yes! She has issues with balance so she can only walk short distances.

@@ChallengeTheory damn, my bad😥

Thank you!

Congrats on 2 days! Yep it can be concerning when doing a longer fast if you don't know what to expect.

@@ChallengeTheory just broke my fast today, went 4 days but I couldn't sleep last night, my legs were killing me, I'm curious if you had that experience... Anyways, final had a movement and yup, it was everything I binged the night before, it wasn't pleasant, very fermented... I can't imagine 13 days without a movement. Next fast I'm going to eat less leading up and make sure it's stuff I'm okay letting sit... Or maybe I'll take a laxative and go for totally clean colon. Lessons learned though experience.

@@KevinPilsbury I had the same experience. I do what I call fasting prep, I eat nothing but vegetables for 2-3 days until I have a movement. This flushes my system with fiber leaving me mostly empty maybe with a little vegetable fiber in my system. When I do this I have little or no acid reflux during my fast and feel much better. Congrats on 4 days! Sounds like you learned a lot.

Ha! Thank you!

Facts! Often if I had a day with 0 loss the next day I would drop 2 lbs.

Don't think of it like that, 3 days is an awesome accomplishment especially if you are just starting. When I started fasting I did 3 day fasts. I did 4 of them before I ever tried for 5 days. I have failed at far more fasts than I have completed. Learn from the experience and try again when you are ready.

It is true! The physical hunger went away around day 4. My stomach stopped rumbling. But the mental struggle never went away but it would come and go. Also once fully in ketosis I had awesome energy and my brain was working at double time. Those first 3 days are the hardest.

From my experience if you lose the weight fasting or slowly over months it does not change where the weight comes off of on your body. But the good news is the further you go the more likely those tough spots will start showing progress. These next 10kg may be the ones that show in your face no matter how you get them off.

​@@ChallengeTheorythank you sir❤

Thanks!

I did water only but some people do dirty fasting and they drink coffee or tea with no sweetener and 0 calories.

I hate to admit it but I stopped doing my cardio in VR after 2 weeks. During this time I was losing about 1 lb. per week and now I'm doing my cardio in the gym on a treadmill and still losing my 1 lb. a week. I'm down almost 30 lbs. I've had a few week where I slipped up in there too.

I'm down 30 lbs. so far still got 30 more to go.

Yes! The blue is level 2 tension and the red is level 3. The red one is stiffer and gives more of a strength boost. The size also makes a big difference. Mine is 1 size too small for me and that makes it super tight at the bottom giving me more boost out of the hole. I'd rather have the right size to get the most out of the lift.

I try and use the fasting time as a deload and not lift. I have heard training to failure can cause more muscle loss on longer fasts. I do take daily walks but try to avoid going too hard.

It is true, I found I always felt great in the mornings and around 2 or 3 I would struggle more. So I always look forward to the mornings.

First thing, the experts recommend not doing a prolonged fast until you are 20-23. I found the first 3-4 day I had a lot of stomach rumbling but that decreases around day 4.

Most people do bone broth. You want to do small meals with little or no carbs and easy to digest foods. Avoid nuts and high fat foods and processed foods. I will add back things over 3 days of getting back to normal.

That is a amazing! I love hearing about the healing your body is doing. That was what got me started with my first fast. It was crazy to think I had lived 40 years and never once gone over 24 hours without eating. The human body is such an amazing thing. Congrats on 8 days! I hope you hit your goal!

@@ChallengeTheory I am in my day 12 now, I lost 6 inches on my waist. Any time I feel nauseous I drink Perrier water and that helps me a lot, I drink the magnesium every night with Perrier water. I realized that during ketosis I lose more weight sleeping than working out.

@@Idefix-es5ot Day 12! That is awesome. That makes sense. Some people say that training can cause more muscle loss when on a prolonged fast and less healing.

@@ChallengeTheory Next week, iI am thinking to start walking for an hour. Let’s seek how that works.

@@Idefix-es5ot Good luck! Finish strong!

Hey! Thanks for asking. I working on update video now, still grinding!

Congrats on day 4! Your electrolytes sound good. I never had issues with heart rate so be careful with that and check with a Dr. I find that around day 4 I'm in full ketosis and the fasting gets a little easier. I had exact same experience with training, light training, walks etc were great but intense training like running and lifting took a toll on me and I would feel down for the rest of the day. This is normal the expert say to avoid intense training on prolonged fast and it can even cause more muscle loss because your body does not have what it needs to repair the muscle. I think of my fast as a deload from lifting and a time to let my body focus on healing. I also had dry mouth all the time and I just sipped on water all day. Nothing really relieves it, just part of the process. Good luck hitting your goal!

@@ChallengeTheory Thank you. It seems I probably have to stop taking my caffeine supplements as it looks like it might be causing my mild heart palpitations rather than the fast itself. You see, I thought my calorie free caffeine supplements would help improve my energy levels rather than give me those heart palpitations and make me even feel more tired throughout the day. No wonder why I would have heart palpitations because I am a healthy individual with no medical conditions at all and I am taking my sea salt and salt substitute dissolved in water along with a magnesium/calcium table that is calorie free and doesn’t break the fast, which should help, but it seems once you hit full ketosis, which might be tomorrow on day 5 for sure, I’ll feel better and my energy levels will likely improve rather than feel drowsy. I know not to do intense exercise like marathon running or heavy lifting as this can indeed increase muscle loss, and the fast itself, while not perfectly zero, it is very minimal and almost no loss, which means any minor loss will only take a few days up to a one week in the gym at most to repair and gain a back any minor loss, thanks to muscle memory. Fasting is like an excellent way to lose unwanted fat super quick before you know it, while keeping muscle loss very minimal, and even more minimal the more you do it due to the body’s ability to adapt to periodic fasting cycles, so the minimal muscle loss during your first fast will be even less and less the more you do it and while it may never reach perfectly and spot on zero, it will become very close like only a fraction of a pound, which is nothing and makes sense because our ancestors relied on feast and famine to survive, which is similar to my bulking (feasting to put on as much muscle as you can in a given time) and cutting (followed by a prolonged fast to offset any fat gain while mainly maintaining most if all of your muscle) and even more so the more extended fasting cycles you go through, as the body is more adaptable than we think and you don’t just lose the same rate of muscle each time you fast, as long as body fat is not extremely depleted. My food cravings on day 4 are not there at all or are very mild and it seems those heart palpitations were probably due to taking caffeine supplements rather than the fast itself, especially since I am staying very hydrated with electrolytes, and it seems the only way to maintain energy levels is do light exercises like taking daily walks to maintain blood flow rather than caffeine supplements. Am I right? Would you recommend taking daily walks or even light training to maintain blood flow and increase energy rather than caffeine?

@@MattCummings795 Yes I do daily walks and I was a coffee drinker before and went off during my fast and my energy levels were crazy, sometimes from the ketosis it felt like my brain was going extra fast. I would have times when energy was low but they always passed in 30 minutes or so. It is crazy how the physical hunger goes away around day 4. Sounds like you are crushing it!

@@ChallengeTheory Thank you. So, I guess it seems normal to feel just mild heart palpitations from here and there and a little cranky on some days, but not sign of future fainting or ending up in the emergency room, especially if you’re an individual with no medical conditions and stays well hydrated with not only water, but electrolytes too, as electrolyte imbalances can cause heart palpitations or fatigue or even more of a dry mouth too, and they help you stay more full too with that balanced water retention and normal fluid balance, as water loss from bodily fluids can mimic hunger, faster heartbeats and even fatigue. Thank you for this information. It just seems I just have to accept and be prepared on some days, I’ll feel amazing, while on other days, I just feel like sleeping, even with ketosis. And, I found this mouthwash too and is the BEST for dry mouth on a fast. I use it once a morning and the brand is called ACT and it’s the mint burst flavor (not the regular mint), and I would recommend you get it if you ever plan future fasts as this for me, surprisingly really helps with my dry mouth significantly and reduces my cravings to chew something due to the need of oral stimulation caused by lack of saliva production. I’m doing the best I can like taking walking every day, one when I first wake up and another in the evening to maintain as much energy levels and blood flow as possible, but even that, I understand from your information, it’s normal to have days of feeling cranky and that’s okay without needing to stop immediately or even worse, go the the ER, and if you ever do it again, you might feel even better and less cranky on days over time as the body gets used to it and adapts to fasting, including and even periodic prolonged fasts, which explains why our ancestors had the stamina and ability to hunt and gather during periodic “famine” as their bodies have evolved to adapt to any stressors, including prolonged fasting for, time to time, as they went sometimes even weeks without food, making it easy to do it in the future and less effort to put in without those unpleasant feelings you may get. I can’t wait to finish my fast as I’m already half way done on to day 6 right now, and I’m feeling good today with no symptoms, but I understand for a fast this long, reintroducing food gradually is a must and I plan on breaking the fast with bone broth and lean proteins the first couple days with some carbs, then start to eat more fats on the third day and increasing carbohydrate intake to some extent, then by day 4, I’ll go pretty much back to my regular diet. Fasting is a great tool and a good way to do some mini-bulking phase with a mini-cut phase too, so you bulk up for a month as much as possible followed by a 7-14 day fast (1-2 weeks) to offset any fat gain, and then you repeat, and the result would be a net increase in muscle mass over time, while keeping any fat gain low if not none, since the fasting cycles are minimal to negligible muscle loss and way less than the amount you gained in that month of bulking and training, especially as your body adapts to the periodic 7-14 day fasts, making any muscle loss almost nothing and extremely close to zero the more you do it, just as long as body fat is not severely depleted and you’re not extremely lean like with a fully developed extremely deep six pack abs with striations everywhere, which explains why our ancestors survived during “feast and famine” without any cumulative muscle loss due to adaptations, as my approach of bulking up as much as I can for a whole month followed by a 7-14 day fast in between to offset any fat gain mimics these natural patterns our ancestors faced because my routine for bulking, while keeping body fat low, involves SIGNIFICANT fluctuations in calorie intake just like our ancestors faced periods of food abundance and scarcity. And, you always hear you can’t build muscle when you do extended fasting, but not quite, not if you follow a routine like mine that involves periods of regular eating like the month long period of eating a lot to bulk up provides an ample of time for sufficient nutrient replenishment daily to maximize MPS unlike other extended fasting protocols where there is less frequent eating. It’s going well so far and I’m going to continue this routine for about six months to a year to see how it all goes. I currently weight around 132-135 pounds right now, and my goal is to get to 150 pounds predominantly from muscle, so it will take some time, but with my routine and consistency, it’s achievable and doable. All in all, thank you for letting me know it’s normal to feel cranky with a mild faster heart rate on some days. You just got to push through it and let your body adapt to it. Take care. Lift Heavy. Be well.

@@MattCummings795 Congrats on 6 days! Good luck hitting your goal. Crankiness and energy level changes are normal, I usually felt great in the morning and struggled in the evenings. You have to listen to your body and be safe, I am not an expert and I never had any heart palpitations so I can't say if this is ok, if I experienced this I would either check with a Dr. or if it was at a certain level consider breaking the fast. Just saying this so you know I can't advise you on this and I want you to be safe. I agree with what you say about how our ancestors lived. It always amazes me how the body can find energy to do so much when in a fasted state. I ran a 5k on my 17th day of fasting. I wouldn't recommend this but I wanted to test myself and I was able to do it. I also had issues with my mouth feeling uncomfortable all the time so if you found some relief that is awesome. You are a beast! I'm sending some positive fasting energy your way!

That is awesome! Good luck on your fast. That is cool you can relate to that, not everyone is like that but it has always worked for me.

LOL - yep! Thx!

Let's go! Good luck! I'm sending some positive fasting energy your way!

that's long time, make sure to not indulge in large quantities of any food, even healthy and definitely not on any quantity of unhealthy food on your birthday otherwise consequences can be fatal, do your research.

@@Ranas-qm8vn It is true, the longer the fast the more important you break it safely by eating low or no carb food the first few days, small meals and nothing hard to digest.

I have some loose skin and minimal stretch marks but they are the same when I fast to lose the weight or when I lost is slowly over time in the past.