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Lucis
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Fasting, anyone into it? 1
#28142270 - 01/16/23 03:48 AM (1 year, 12 days ago) |
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I have been into fasting now for about 5 years, I started doing it a while ago because I thought it would be fun to try since it's a way of altering your consciousness, improving your health in a number of ways, and builds discipline.
I love it, I fast everyday and usually stick to OMAD (one meal a day) which seems natural to me, although some days when the weather is bad I might eat more/less. I usually try to fast for 20 hours everyday which is my sweet spot, but sometimes I go 16 or 18 hours, it just depends on how I feel.
Autophagy is interesting, it's our bodies ability to recycle old/dead components and heal itself, this usually begins after 18 hours of fasting for myself, but some claim it happens sooner (16hrs) or later (20hrs), it gives a nice "hum" feeling which feels interesting.
Anyway, I am curious if others venture into the fasting world and if so do you like it and why.
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Re: Fasting, anyone into it? [Re: Lucis] 2
#28142369 - 01/16/23 06:44 AM (1 year, 12 days ago) |
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I try to do a 3 day fast every couple of years, I enjoy the challenge of it and also integrate meditation and usually a trip at the end. I technically do intermittent fasting most days as well, mainly because I've found it's one of the most effective ways for me to cut down cravings and calories
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Re: Fasting, anyone into it? [Re: Lucis] 2
#28143063 - 01/16/23 03:02 PM (1 year, 11 days ago) |
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The first fast I attempted was a 30 day and I did it with my doctors and the results were mind blowing. There are real benefits to calorie restriction as long as you're taking in the proper amounts of essential nutrients. Since I began experimenting with fasting , I've been testing different schedules and I decided to maintain OMAD for almost eight months now and I can honestly say I can't remember ever feeling this good. We were not meant to eat three meals with snacks in between. The way the average person eats, three meals with snacks is the Breeding ground for disease. Insulin resistance is caused by eating this way. It's great to find others that are aware of cell autophagy. I'm not sure if you're aware but you can also promote autophagy with exercise.
Take good care!
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have been fasting for 20 years, started as a teenager when i didn't even know what a fast was. just knew i felt better.
72 hour fast and 36 hour fast weekly, with 6 hour eating window on the three days food is consumed, one day per month i do no restrictions at all.
12 day fast once per quarter,
have done 5, 21 day fasts,
and one 44 day fast.
can't talk about freely and openly as most people don't see how the above can be healthy.
it's the most free medicine in the word!!!
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Anonymous #1 said: have been fasting for 20 years, started as a teenager when i didn't even know what a fast was. just knew i felt better.
72 hour fast and 36 hour fast weekly, with 6 hour eating window on the three days food is consumed, one day per month i do no restrictions at all.
12 day fast once per quarter,
have done 5, 21 day fasts,
and one 44 day fast.
can't talk about freely and openly as most people don't see how the above can be healthy.
it's the most free medicine in the word!!!
You're awesome... It's hard for people to wrap their heads around what the body begins doing when it can direct it's energy elsewhere in its system. In long fasts by day four, you're burning ketones which is a much more efficient fuel and because it's non oxidative it combats inflammation. Good for you man, good for you...
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really enjoyed the chris palmer video you posted in the other thread!
for me, fasting is an absolute necessity to manage my health. it has saved my life.
i have a hard time understanding how anyone could deny that the nutrition that they put into their body, or don't, has a direct impact on mental health!
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Yeah, but it's not planned. Just happens. I get too lazy to eat. Like right now.
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Lucis
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Nikon Addict said: I'm not sure if you're aware but you can also promote autophagy with exercise.
Take good care!
Good point, I love calisthenics.
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Anonymous #1 said: have been fasting for 20 years, started as a teenager when i didn't even know what a fast was. just knew i felt better.
72 hour fast and 36 hour fast weekly, with 6 hour eating window on the three days food is consumed, one day per month i do no restrictions at all.
12 day fast once per quarter,
have done 5, 21 day fasts,
and one 44 day fast.
can't talk about freely and openly as most people don't see how the above can be healthy.
it's the most free medicine in the word!!!
Wow, that's amazing.
The longest I have ever gone was 5 days which felt amazing, I usually do 20-24 hour fasts.
Sometime I would like to do a 30 day fast!
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Re: Fasting, anyone into it? [Re: Lucis]
#28148366 - 01/20/23 03:34 AM (1 year, 8 days ago) |
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Lucis said:
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Anonymous #1 said: have been fasting for 20 years, started as a teenager when i didn't even know what a fast was. just knew i felt better.
72 hour fast and 36 hour fast weekly, with 6 hour eating window on the three days food is consumed, one day per month i do no restrictions at all.
12 day fast once per quarter,
have done 5, 21 day fasts,
and one 44 day fast.
can't talk about freely and openly as most people don't see how the above can be healthy.
it's the most free medicine in the word!!!
Wow, that's amazing.
The longest I have ever gone was 5 days which felt amazing, I usually do 20-24 hour fasts.
Sometime I would like to do a 30 day fast!
Once you hit day four, maybe five, it's all down hill from there, generally. If you went into it with a carb addiction, it could definitely take a bit longer.
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I eat a lot of sushi, rice, fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds, smoothies, granola, oatmeal.
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Re: Fasting, anyone into it? [Re: Lucis] 3
#28154007 - 01/23/23 02:53 PM (1 year, 4 days ago) |
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I'm about to start a 5days fasting. I'll let you know how it was
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Re: Fasting, anyone into it? [Re: Lucis]
#28157963 - 01/26/23 07:32 AM (1 year, 2 days ago) |
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is it your mind saying, "i feel bad"?
or your body?
or both?
where the mind goes, the body will follow.
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Re: Fasting, anyone into it? [Re: Lucis]
#28159012 - 01/26/23 08:44 PM (1 year, 1 day ago) |
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Chamberlain said: I can't fast. I feel bad without food...
You'll probably feel better after fasting. You might benefit from a fasting app, or reading a book on fasting, you'd be surprised how improved your mental state and physical state can become from fasting.
Oftentimes people feel bad without food because they're so used to consuming it all the time and consuming poor forms of it.
When you begin to fast and get in a normal exercise regime you'll realize how "overfed" the majority of the population is.
We have an obesity epidemic in the USA because of people consuming huge quantities of food which is full of addicting things which makes people overeat often.
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Re: Fasting, anyone into it? [Re: Lucis]
#28160437 - 01/27/23 07:51 PM (1 year, 17 hours ago) |
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I just finished 48 hours, woot woot, feeling great!
I only consumed vitamins, green tea, alkaline water, and black coffee.
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Re: Fasting, anyone into it? [Re: Lucis]
#28266278 - 04/07/23 02:23 AM (9 months, 17 days ago) |
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Have not nor have I ever bought a steak or taken vitamins but I do remember how hard it was for our northernly ancestors this time of year- the same way it gets coldest right before the sun comes up, that last little nip that thins off the sick and wounded. The food always runs out just when the abundance of spring seems so close, when travel is difficult or impossible and enemies and predators and scavengers are just as hungry. It came down to a matter of days sometimes, forced into the unthinkable things, the things they did for us... Around then betrayal and greed became a thing. Then, remember the despair of the meteor and the volcano and the springs that never came, that desperation of extinction? If they had parasites and diseases back then nobody would have made it. They never told the grandkids about all that since they were ashamed so they grew up confused and angry and destroyed all the wild food sources and cut down all the forests and left piles of dead bodies rotting all over the world and I think that is about when they started making us eat our vegetables and everybody started getting sick all the time. Poor stress management skills, not eating has always been one and I assume that could be a instinctual survival skill, nowadays I chain smoke a lot but I can still do 100 pushups in a set and climb mountains without getting winded. I have not been eating much meat lately but only because there is not much left to poach except cows but since I have vowed to only feed livestock to wild canids it has been a lot of berries and smoked fish from last summer and browsing on tender seedlings. It seems like every time I shit barely anything comes out... It is sort of amazing and I squat there in the bush trying to guestimate the weight and do the math...
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