I recently watched a bbc documentary on fasting. I was intrigued. Lately I have been eating like a weight lifter which is great because I lift weights. But also making bad choices and drinking (probably too much). I sprained an ankle on 4 June to add to my situation. At the end of the summer I was 160#. That is 11 or 9 # over what I am allowed. With that came a 215# PR on my deadlift and I hit my 120 on the bench and even 3 sets of 10 reps at 100#. So basically strength wins totally happening. But I know that although I have a lot of muscle I also have a lot of fat. Now to find balance or refocus my goals or something. I have a new short term goal to drop excess weight in the form of fat so I will be experimenting with my diet for the next few months clearly what I am doing is good for my strength but I need to adjust to drop weight.
Some of these thoughts occurred to me while on my fast. See my fast made me think. That is probably a good thing.
So why fast. I felt puffy, full, lethargic, gassy, and my body wasn't processing food correctly. I rapidly gained the last 5 lbs of that weight during a cruise. I decided I needed a cleanse. Then I had to decide what kind of cleanse. I tried a juice fast once a few years ago and weight came off for like 5 minutes. I decided I could modify that to get some additional nutrients.
I watched the documentary eat, fast, and live (I think) it's on YouTube and I decided it's worth a shot. I need something dramatic. I eat lots of veggies good meat not much bread or dairy already maybe I just need to do something dramatic to get my body to respond.
2 plus day liquid fast it is. Modified juice fast. I drank water, detox tea, not senna tea though, juice (that I made one green and one red a day), juice plus shakes with coconut water, and broth both bone broth (I made) and organ stock (also homemade). I fasted 62 hours or so. I am about to break my fast but really not hungry. I walked, cleaned house, and stretched during this first fast and took detox baths both with a seaweed powder and rosemary essential oil.
I feel incredible. I expected lethargy and hanger. I got just good. I feel really good. I drank slowly and usually my meal would take about a half hour to an hour to finish.
I will do this again. I plan to incorporate several fast days into my week (2-3) and I think a couple vegetarian days and a couple paleo days. I will have at least one day where I can just eat the type of foods I want at will but I want to play with the rest a bit and see how I feel.
I thought fasting was nuts. I love how I feel right now. At one point I thought paleo and vegetarian diets were nuts. I think it all has possibly a time and place in my diet. I want to check it all out.
