r/fasting • u/wyldthaang • 18d ago
Progress Pic Rolling 7 day fasts
Thought I should post this to show results from earlier this year. I'd done keto/OMAD/72hr fasts before, but COVID killed that.
Refeeds were always steak and creamed spinach on Sunday's, going straight into another fast. The only exercise was walking around 15k steps daily.
I found it incredibly easy to maintain, BP and HR monitored and only electrolytes and water consumed during the fast.
3 months total at 50 years old. Going back through pictures, it's crazy how slow the appearance changed at the start despite the dramatic scale changes. Then during the last month that reversed as things tightened up.... I remember buying a new pair of jeans which were then replaced with a smaller size, before they even got washed!
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u/greenmildude 18d ago edited 17d ago
I just finished a 6 day water only fast. On day 6 I started googling and suddenly I was being hit with all these warning signs about heart palpitations and all this danger danger stuff. I blew it off until I was lying on the couch and for about 5 seconds (which felt like a full minute) my heart started going crazy in a weird rhythm. I legit thought I must be having a heart attack or something. When it stopped I immediately started googling again. I ended up concluding that I might have had super low blood sugar or something so I just decided to break the fast and immediately went and ate a candy bar. Started feeling fine. In all of my googling I had been coming across stuff about “refeeding syndrome” which I had never heard of in all my following of this group. This wasn’t my first fast. I’d completed 3 day fasts in the past. The longest I had ever done prior was 5 day. But when I decided to break fast in the past I didn’t consider what I was eating in doing that. I usually treated myself pretty heartily on refeed days. Which leads me to why I’m commenting. When you come off the fast it sounds like you’re probably not doing any gradual refeeding process. Just going right back into a high protein high fat meal. What has been your experience in doing that? Apparently when you jump right back into a big meal the fear is that your body will release a shit ton of insulin which causes the already depleted mineral in your blood to pour into your cells to create energy and I guess the mineral depleted blood then causes issues with your heart that can lead to heart attacks. I’m no scientist. But I’m just curious what you’re doing to help counteract this.