Fasting thread

[Idolater]

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The last time I fasted in the name of Jesus Christ, it was to show the body who was boss, and God rewarded me.
Was your fast "God" related?

What is wrong with you? How can even in plain text you come across as this irritating? Is it a gift? Or do you have no idea you're doing it?

"God" related indeed.

 

[Idolater]

If I didn't suspect from having read some of your earlier comments in this thread that you are trolling him, it would really surprise me that you would say that.

lol Hoping's a king troll. Trolls like Username are waiting tables, while Hoping's the head chef.

My guess is that, if for no other reason, people fast because they, by experience, have come to consider it beneficial to their health in one or more ways. Wouldn't you guess as much?

I have so much ... stored nutrition, that it literally logically makes eating superfluous for me rn. Superfluous.

 

[Jefferson]

I've never done a fast for anything longer than about 36 hours. I can do 24 hours pretty easily but it seems like three days would be really hard.

You'd be surprised. People who have done multi-day fasts will all tell you that, for some strange reason, day two is the hardest but then it gets easier. Maybe because your stomach does most of its shrinking
on day two? I don't know. Whenever I have set out to do a 3 day fast, the same thing always happens at the end of the third day and it's time to eat. I'm never hungry. I've stretched it out to 4 1/2 days before. Same result. I have no desire to eat. Day 4 was a breeze. So easy. But day two was so hard.

 

[Idolater]

You'd be surprised. People who have done multi-day fasts will all tell you that, for some strange reason, day two is the hardest but then it gets easier. Maybe because your stomach does most of its shrinking
on day two? I don't know. Whenever I have set out to do a 3 day fast, the same thing always happens at the end of the third day and it's time to eat. I'm never hungry. I've stretched it out to 4 1/2 days before. Same result. I have no desire to eat. Day 4 was a breeze. So easy. But day two was so hard.

Day two is now no longer hard for me. I'm on my second consecutive day-six rn. But again, I've got stored nutrition to spare, which is why I'm doing this, because as I said previously, based on my measurements, there's literally basically zero reason for me to eat at all for a while. I've already eaten enough for a while.

Hardest day for me now is the fourth or the fifth.

 

[Jefferson]

Day two is now no longer hard for me. I'm on my second consecutive day-six rn. But again, I've got stored nutrition to spare, which is why I'm doing this, because as I said previously, based on my measurements, there's literally basically zero reason for me to eat at all for a while. I've already eaten enough for a while.

Hardest day for me now is the fourth or the fifth.

That's really interesting. Yours is a unique case from my experience.

 

[Hoping]

What is wrong with you? How can even in plain text you come across as this irritating? Is it a gift? Or do you have no idea you're doing it?

"God" related indeed.

As has been shown here, some folks fast for other reasons than to "chasten" the vessel...a religiously oriented fast.
Some do it for weight loss, and I have heard it can be used to identify allergy causing foods...a physically oriented fast.

 

[Idolater]

That's really interesting. Yours is a unique case from my experience.

I mean like it's Saturday morning. The last time I ate was Saturday night. 156 hours. I woke up un-hungry. I'm having a hard time just planning my meal which I will eat now to break the fast. I can't stay focused on food, my mind is racing, thinking about other things. I have to eat (I'm just not going beyond six days), and the idea of eating is just another chore for me rn, and I've got higher priorities than eating on my list, so I'm distracted.

 

[Idolater]

As has been shown here, some folks fast for other reasons than to "chasten" the vessel...a religiously oriented fast.
Some do it for weight loss, and I have heard it can be used to identify allergy causing foods...a physically oriented fast.

:/

So what? Who cares?

 

[Jefferson]

I mean like it's Saturday morning. The last time I ate was Saturday night. 156 hours. I woke up un-hungry. I'm having a hard time just planning my meal which I will eat now to break the fast. I can't stay focused on food, my mind is racing, thinking about other things. I have to eat (I'm just not going beyond six days), and the idea of eating is just another chore for me rn, and I've got higher priorities than eating on my list, so I'm distracted.

Have you learned about the safest ways to break a long-term fast?

 

[Clete]

You'd be surprised. People who have done multi-day fasts will all tell you that, for some strange reason, day two is the hardest but then it gets easier. Maybe because your stomach does most of its shrinking
on day two? I don't know. Whenever I have set out to do a 3 day fast, the same thing always happens at the end of the third day and it's time to eat. I'm never hungry. I've stretched it out to 4 1/2 days before. Same result. I have no desire to eat. Day 4 was a breeze. So easy. But day two was so hard.

That's what I keep hearing. I guess I'm just not that motivated to do it yet.

You may aleady know this but from what I've learned, the reason you stop being hungry is primarily because your body switches fuel. It goes from burning carbs for fuel to burning fat and, as you say, your stomach "figures out" that it's regular dose of food isn't coming and so stops sending the hunger hormone signals to your brain.

 

[Idolater]

Have you learned about the safest ways to break a long-term fast?

I watched Fung talk about it once yes.

That's what I keep hearing. I guess I'm just not that motivated to do it yet.

You may aleady know this but from what I've learned, the reason you stop being hungry is primarily because your body switches fuel. It goes from burning carbs for fuel to burning fat and, as you say, your stomach "figures out" that it's regular dose of food isn't coming and so stops sending the hunger hormone signals to your brain.

Your body uses carbs, protein and fat for fuel when you're eating normally. But when you stop eating then yes you do transition to using fat stores for energy exclusively. That takes c. 24 hours but certainly by 36 hours you're cruising on all body fat by then.

When you're eating (unless it's 100% fat, like guzzling peanut oil I guess lol) your body's also secreting insulin (even protein triggers insulin secretion, not just carbs /sugar /starch), and when you're fasting now insulin's at bay. Insulin retains water among other things, so when you do fast you drop body weight quickly but a lot of it's water.

Once the water's gone from insulin levels dropping, your body weight reduces at a much more modest clip, closer to what you'd calculate your resting metabolic rate would consume (although unless you're laying in bed all day you're demanding more energy than just that).

I track my waist circumference with a tape measure, this doesn't show the volatility you see in body weight measurement, which as I said is influenced by water retention from dropping insulin levels. It's a more stable measure.