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Advice on how to do prolonged fasts?Question (self.fasting)

submitted 3 hours ago by skelaceton

I’m a total beginner. I can easily do 24 hour fasts and I can sometimes stretch it out to
36 (longest was 40 hours) but I’ve been trying to do 72 hour fasts with no luck still.

I get to a point where I’m just starving and miserable, so I’m sure that I’m doing
something wrong.

I also live with a family who equates fasting to eating disorders so I do have to be kinda
discreet about it.

I guess what I’m getting at is: how do I manage hunger cues, and how do I stop feeling
awful all the time?

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[–]AutoModerator [M] [score hidden] 3 hours ago stickied commentlocked comment

Many issues and questions can be answered by reading through our wiki, especially the
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[–]Byxim 3 points 2 hours ago

It’s a mental game. I hold procrastinate for as long as I can usually 20 minutes or more
and then eventually it goes away. But f that’s not working out your ear phones on listen
to some music while walking. Or just go for a walk with no music. I just find the music is
like a place holder for the thought of food. Also get off your phone. There are so many
videos on TikTok and instagram and sometimes you don’t have control over when they
pop up. They can trigger hunger pangs. That’s all I got. Otherwise it’s a mental game
you just gotta fight with yourself and talk yourself out of it.

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[–]Internal-Display9057 3 points 2 hours ago

Chug ALOT of water when that happens, Your body will listen.

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[–]Zero_Fasting 3 points 2 hours ago

Have you ever entered ketosis? Maybe try meto for a week so you’re still eating and it’s
said to help prep the body for fasting so hopefully you’re not as miserable.

I hope you’ve read up how by day 4 you’re in ketosis and ghrelin drops off largely
eliminating those hunger pangs.

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[–]komplekskompleksitet 2 points 21 minutes ago

I read it as "Maybe try meth for a week"..

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[–]andrewdrewandy 1 point 2 hours ago

It takes practice.. it's like growing a muscle... you don't lift a 72 hour fast right off the
bat, you do it after many weeks/months of doing shorter fasts.

Also... you use fasting aids. My big gun fasting aid is drinking a cup of bone broth at
hour 25-30 when I'm doing a 42 hour fast. Sure, there's some calories and probably a
(very small) increase in insulin, but the extra 12-18 hours it allows me to achieve more
than makes up for it. I also use salt and pickle juice at times during the day in addition
to making sure I'm hydrated. People get super weird about "electrolytes" but honestly if
I just put a punch or two of salt under my tongue I'm good and it really helps you to
avoid cravings and headaches especially early in your fasting journey.

But the most important thing I've found to help me fast longer is making sure that I'm
balancing out my fasting time with my feeding time.... essentially I always make sure
that I'm fasting roughly 40-60% of the week and eating the other 40-60% of the time.
Basically I'm trying to stress my body with fasting just enough to lose weight and make
progress but not so much that it causes me to want to binge on the days I do eat or
causes me to feel so stressed out there I have to give in to cravings at the 20 hour mark
when Im shooting for 42. Basically you gotta be sustainable in fasting and not try and go
all hardcore all the time.

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