Congratulations on a great decision. I'm at the most 10 kg overweight (86 Kg/ 20% body fat right now) and I regularly go a week without ingesting anything but water and electrolytes. Shooting for 20 days of prolonged fasting in August.
I've found it to be the easiest to stick to diet I've ever tried, and I've done everything. If you struggle with moderation, fasting for prolonged periods has been much more productive for me. Not only do you burn fat 3-5x faster than any other diet, but your cravings go away incredibly quickly. I used to compulsively eat 3 chocolate croissants a day and after a couple of long fasts, I don't really care for them.
The emotional benefits are almost bigger. After 3 days without food my mind stops racing and my anxiety melts away. It feels like zen no-mind, and much stronger than I've been able to achieve by meditating.
Needless to say I'm a fan of going without food now, to the point where I hope to do it regularly for the rest of my life (unless evidence comes out pointing to it being bad for your health). Happy to answer any questions that pop up about fasting.
> Shooting for 20 days of prolonged fasting in August.
Awesome. You should be able to do that no problem. Just make sure you're supplementing plenty of sodium, potassium and magnesium.
> The emotional benefits are almost bigger. After 3 days without food my mind stops racing and my anxiety melts away. It feels like zen no-mind, and much stronger than I've been able to achieve by meditating.
This was my experience as well. Somewhere between day 7 and day 10 everything just got easier.
That's really good to hear. How was your libido through the 60 days? Mine pretty much goes away by day 3. That's been the thing preventing me from going longer, girlfriends don't take kindly to the lack of action between the sheets.
On electrolytes, last time I fasted for 5 days I only drank Snake Juice (salts dissolved in water taken through the day) and it did wonders for me. The guy promoting it is more than a little on the wacko side, but he hit the nail on the head with that recipe.
Well, that statement requires a lot more detail. Straight on 60 days is simply infeasible, let alone sustainable. Intermittent fasting is something else.
Please make sure to provide context when making tall claims like that, which could lead others down the wrong road!
Without context, that is not a helpful statement. For starters, a 60 day fast will lead to a very large loss of weight, so unless the faster is exceedingly above the ideal weight at the start, it sounds dangerous.
> Without context, that is not a helpful statement.
On the contrary, it started a discussion.
> For starters, a 60 day fast will lead to a very large loss of weight
Approximately 80 lbs in my case.
I started the fast at 37% bodyfat, according to my somewhat reliable Omron scale which uses Bioelectrical Impedance to measure body fat.
> so unless the faster is exceedingly above the ideal weight at the start, it sounds dangerous.
From my experience, fasting is the opposite of dangerous.
If you're a healthy adult, you can easily fast for 7 days. But yes, you do need the fat stores, though I'm counting that 7 days of fat stores as implicit in 'healthy adult'.
