I feel my sleep has improved. Appetite reduced and feel calm. Able to sleep easily.

This is the longest fast I have ever done. I am trying to lose weight and learn to control cravings. I am excited to see how well I do, but I am a little nervous. Is there anything that helped you when you began fasting? What is the longest fast you have been on?

it was going really well initially. i was fully prepared and taking my electrolytes. i wasn’t even tempted to eat.

i was planning for 7 days, but i had extreme nausea and dizziness, so my husband told me it was time to eat and try again in a few days.

i think part of my nausea is due to me continuing to vape & me starting a new job, but ill be back!!

still wanted to share my accomplishment of almost 4 full days :D

I'll try not to make this too long, but I wanted to share a HUGE win today! I just got results back from today's blood draw at the VA and I'm absolutely over the moon!! I really just wanted someone to celebrate with...

Quick overshare for context: I first started getting into fasting and keto diet right around the COVID shutdown in 2020, mainly as a way to control my blood sugars and control my weight (I'm a Type 1 Diabetic on an insulin pump.) I was having a ton of success with it, and doing daily OMAD with 2 and 3 day fasts once a month. Numbers were great, weight was great, and I had everything dialed in pretty good. Then I lost my business in 2024 and fell into a pretty deep depression. Almost got divorced, started drinking heavily, my diet was terrible, and I pretty much just shut down. I ballooned up to the fattest I've ever been, and I was starting to have all kinds of health problems.

In July, after some counseling, some spiritual work, and deciding I wasn't going to continue killing myself slowly, I decided to jump back on the fasting/keto wagon. Did some baseline labs on July 13th, and then started doing 20:4 daily fasts, weekly 42h fasts, and I even got a 140hour fast in about 3 weeks ago! Here are the lab results from today, side by side with my July numbers. This is so encouraging for me, and I hope someone is encouraged for their journey as well! I actually can't wait to go talk to my doc next week, because these numbers are without my blood pressure meds, and without a statin! My daily insulin is down from over 100 units / day to like 25 units!

Still got a little work to do in a few spots--I'm on a quest to see my abs again and get to my HS wrestling weight (178), but at this rate, I'm hoping to be there by Christmas!

Thanks for letting me share, y'all! God bless!

And a big thank you for this sub and all your posts; when sh*t gets hard i get a lot of motivation from here. Thank you comrades

Edit: sometimes i eat my omad post-fast at maintenance...mostly i never care about calories especially if its only a high fat and high protein meal because i literally cannot eat a lot. And i have 1 huge carby meal once every 7 to 10 days.

Anyone who works 12+ hour shifts, how did you incorporate fasting?

Hi all,
I have done many 24h fasts and some 48h.

A week ago I completed my third 72h fasting (not dry fast, drinking water and himalaya salt). The second time I felt more slim and great around my waist. The days after the third time I have gained quite alot of weight around my stomach area. I didn’t feel slim and good in the end of the fasting as I did on earlier 72h fasts.

Does anyone know why? I really want to loose some weight.
I am a woman btw, 28 y/o.

I began a 5 day fast, im currently 1 day 4 hours in, and my headache is horrible lol. I was a heavy coffee drinker, so that probably is some withdrawal symptom from it. Any tips on the first few days? Im testing myself to gradually go longer.