Fasting Journal : 3 day (66/6) fast complete and huge salads.
After a shopping that really stirred up my hunger, I broke my fast with bacon and eggs, followed by a salad that I'm still working on.
This is the weekend longer intermittent fast, I'm doing two 48 hour IF (44/4) and one 72 hour one (66/6). With only one week behind me, I am not sure if this will be sustainable, but I'll keep trying.
The three day fast went well, with only one point of real hunger, and a couple of points of slight hunger. Let me see if I can post the screenshot from my phone.
The three sixes are mild hunger I felt, mostly while getting ready for bed or something like that. Where I was not busying myself with other things. Barely more than a urge to snack. The big NINE that you can't see, was a knee weakening hunger that crept up on me while shopping today. All those samples at the cheese and olive area.... it was all I could do to stick to my list.
But I did and I made it through and even waited til I unpacked and put away the groceries before starting on my breakfast.
But I want to document the kind of salads I've been having. I'll go over to FitDay while I'm typing this and enter it for a screenshot. This is taking me an hour to finish! More than an hour! It's so big and heavy. It's 1500 calories! What was I thinking!
Well, it's supposed to be part of a six hour long meal. When I add in the rest of the parts of the meal I only come to about 2500 calories, which is about 1/4 of my three day BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate). But I don't think I will be able to eat even that much.
When I was trying to eat just two meals a day, I couldn't eat everything in one go. So I had an 1-2 hour meal, then a break then spread the second meal over another 1-2 hours. Can you eat for an hour, then rest for 4 hours, then eat for another hour? Would that be easier? Actually that doesn't explain it right. I would eat part of the meal, rest for an hour, then eat the rest of the meal, then rest for 4+ hours.
On another note, I recommended to @trisquelwhare that he follow you and maybe have a bit of a chat. He's suffering from diabetic neuropathy and some things which I don't know what they are, so don't know if it's the same as you or not. Have you found anything that helps with the neuropathy?
And yet another note, can you keep an eye on my keto/fasting series of posts? It's not meant to be as in depth as your knowledge of the topic, more of a 101 that beginners can easily understand, as well summarising for myself what I learnt from the summit.
Yes, I will. I haven't been really reading steemit, just using it for a storage of my journal. But I should probably do more. Following you might be a way to get back in the swing of it.
I don't know that I have improved my neuropathy any, but I know it's not getting any worse and the fringe pain is gone. I hear that just reducing insulin spikes does most of that and that ALA? Alpha Lipoic Acid? can help. And, of course, autophagy. But that's a years long process at best. I don't expect to see much in the way of improvement.