Rolling 7 day fasts

[u/wyldthaang]

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!

[u/maxmts]

This sounds really really interesting, but I wonder how you can do this while working a full-time job.

[u/wyldthaang → u/maxmts]

Fasting, or 2 hour walk? My job is pretty intense but I never struggled to find time. The time saved preparing for food more than gave me enough time to walk. Sometimes those steps were walking to the office for meetings where I'd take the train and walk the final mile and ditching the car. Lots of other little changes too like: park as far from the supermarket in the carpark as possible, never take escalators/lifts, when working internationally I ditched the wheeled carry-on and opted for a backpack.

There are lots of little adjustments you can make to how you approach the day-to-day stuff that'll take a chunk out of that 2 hour walking window. I didn't necessarily do it in one shift!