72-hours fasting

[Confuscious]

 

Reading advices about Health Care, I came across the “72-hours Fasting”.

The deal was to “No food” for 72 hours.
Only drink plenty of fluids (water) and take eventually some power drinks.
Also, according to some websites, drinking coffee or tea was also allowed.

I wanted to try this, and started on Monday 26 March at 00:00 hrs.

Here the course of my 72-hours fasting:

 

1. Day 1 (BS=131)

   13:30 Drinking a lot of water.

   Not hungry yet.

   15:30 Drinking a coffee (Americano without sugar or sweetener)

   Everything is OK.

   23:00 Bedtime.

   Everything is OK.

   No hunger; No dizzyness

   Feeling good.

2. Day 2 (BS=136)

   08:30 Wake up, take medicine.

   Feeling normal.

   13:00 Little bit hungry, not too much

   Go drink a green tea.

   Too hot inside the house.

   Go to Central Plaza drink a coffee.

   22:00 Bedtime

   Didn't feel hungry, although I was in the middle of restaurants and people eating.

   Feel better as other days.

   Drank a lot today.

3. Day 3 (BS=120)

   09:00 Feeling good this morning.

   No problems about food.

   13:00 Make ready and go to Central Plaza drink a coffee

   Still doing fine.

   16:00 Something strange happened.

   A few minutes ago, I was having something like a "Hypo".

   "Hypo"= Blood Sugar level too low.

   Start to sweat heavily; Losing concentration; Watery and troubled vision; Etc.

   But the feeling lasted only a few minutes.

   After that, everything was back to normal.

   Strange, I feel much better as before and my sight had improved.

 

At night on day 3, before going to bed, I was taking a shower and noticed that my protruding “belly button” had disappeared and was back to normal (see picture).
 

Blood Sugar level this morning: 113
The ideal BS level from anyone of my age and my condition (69 years old).

Resuming:

1. I would surely advice to try this to everyone who is fit enough to try it.

2. No significant weight loss, but feeling better.

3. Although that I live alone and had nobody to look after me, I would not advice anybody to try this without the presence of someone who can intervene in case of something would go wrong (see Day 3).
Lucky for me, I was at that moment at the coffee shop and had enough people to help me if something would go wrong.
4. From now on, I will try to do this every 2 or 3 months.

 

Good luck to everybody who want to try it.

 

[Will B Good]

No way Giuseppe.......sensible foods and just stop eating when you don't feel hungry.

[Lemsta69]

2 minutes ago, Confuscious said:

No significant weight loss, but feeling better.

I don't think you achieve the state of ketosis, which burns fat instead of glucose for energy, if you still ingest things like coffe and 'power drinks' which are essentially sugar. 

[Confuscious]

51 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

I don't think you achieve the state of ketosis, which burns fat instead of glucose for energy, if you still ingest things like coffe and 'power drinks' which are essentially sugar. 

What foods don't break a fast?

 

A List of Foods You Can Eat Without Breaking a Fast

• Water.
• Black coffee.
• Plain tea.
• Salt water.
• Non-sweetened electrolyte water.
• Non-sweetened sparkling water.
• Lemon juice (1 tbsp or less)
• Apple cider vinegar.

Feb 28, 2563 BE

 

A List of Foods You Can Eat Without Breaking a Fast - Bella All Natural

[henry2109]

That seems pretty intense and rigorous to me. But fine if it works for you.

 

I suggest a less dramatic change: Go to interval fasting, but not only for a short time, but permanently. There are different types of interval fasting. I do the 16/8, so the fasting time is 16 hours daily. For me, it is a breakfast around 9 or 10 am, and a big lunch/dinner at 15 or 16 h in the afternoon. I feel good and lost some weight.

[Confuscious]

51 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

I don't think you achieve the state of ketosis, which burns fat instead of glucose for energy, if you still ingest things like coffe and 'power drinks' which are essentially sugar. 

I never said that I achieved the state of Ketosis.
But the overall benefits of 72-hr fasting were very satisfying for me.
I will discuss these results with my Physician on my next visit (14 April) and wait for his advice.
I am a Diabete -2 patient and I need to take care with such experiments.
Next time, I will try it again, but cutting also the pwer drinks.

FYI, the sugar drinks I took and the coffee contains NO SUGAR.
 

[Lemsta69]

22 minutes ago, Confuscious said:

I am a Diabete -2 patient and I need to take care with such experiments.

you should have lead with that! I'll leave it to your and your doctor to figure out what's best for you. 

[Confuscious]

8 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

you should have lead with that! I'll leave it to your and your doctor to figure out what's best for you. 

Blood Sugar = 112
The best result I had in ages.
Simply perfect

[Lemsta69]

10 minutes ago, Confuscious said:

Blood Sugar = 112
The best result I had in ages.
Simply perfect

Apologies, I thought you were trying to lose fat (based on your "no significant weight loss" comment).

 

I'm desperately trying to slim down from over 100 kilos and have been intermittently fasting for the last four days so I'm kind of obsessed with  ketosis ????

[Confuscious]

58 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

Apologies, I thought you were trying to lose fat (based on your "no significant weight loss" comment).

 

I'm desperately trying to slim down from over 100 kilos and have been intermittently fasting for the last four days so I'm kind of obsessed with  ketosis ????

Sorry, but i am also trying to lose some weight desperately.

95kg at this moment, but should get 85kg.

But fasting will not shred any weight unless i do that for 1 week or so.

My intention was to clean my body and reduce my blood sugar and apparently it did that for me.

 

My daughter (35 years) went from 135kg to 55kg.

But that was with inplanting a quench into the throat at the stomach entry.

[TravelerEastWest]

Congratulations on 113 in the morning!

[LaosLover]

If you're an old <deleted> who wants to fast, I suggest a little chicken broth or miso soup in the mix too. You need some protein, even while fasting.

 

I fasted for 3 days at a Zen monastery and they were very adamant about that.

[TravelerEastWest]

On 3/30/2023 at 4:12 PM, LaosLover said:

If you're an old <deleted> who wants to fast, I suggest a little chicken broth or miso soup in the mix too. You need some protein, even while fasting.

 

I fasted for 3 days at a Zen monastery and they were very adamant about that.

That is a myth...

 

I have fasted on only water for more than a week numerous times sometimes much longer.

 

But it is always a good idea to have medical supervision especially if you are doing  long fast or not on good health...