If I haven't learned anything else in my 13 months, I have most definitely learned nothing is carved in stone with this way of eating. It is as individualistic as anything I have ever experienced and within the individual things can change from day to day.

I'm about 96 hours deep into my latest fast. I'm not all that concerned with the weight loss/weight loss potential. My fasting is all about healing and reversing my autoimmune disease now. My first attempts at fasting and the actual fasts I was really looking for the weight loss. I didn't experience near the weight loss I had imagined with not eating for 72-96 hours.

I ate Wednesday night at about 8PM and weighed 223lbs that morning. I hit the gym pretty hard Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings. I went heavier on the cardio Friday morning and ramped up the weight and volume on the next two mornings. I'm on 12-hour night shifts since Wednesday. When I woke up this afternoon, I hit the scale at 213. I dropped ten pounds since Wednesday morning.

Energy levels are high. I have not been hungry. This time I have not checked my blood sugar nor the blood ketones. I probably will in the morning.

Each fast has been different in regard to weight loss. I feel like the activity level and gym work has been close to the same. I'm at 10lbs with another day to go. (maybe 2)

At 13 months I'm still learning and still don't feel comfortable giving out advice or, 'this is what someone needs to do', but fasting is a really powerful tool. I think coupled with carnivore is like the bonus plan. The first few hours the body does not have a ton of crap to work thru and getting to fat/ketones probably happens a little quicker and maybe even a tad deeper into ketosis. I'm still amazed (maybe even dumbfounded) by the energy levels while not eating. I'm sure there is a point of diminishing returns but right now at 96 hours I am still fully energetic.

I have not decided how far I plan to go. I may stop at 6 days or maybe stretch it to 7. All depends on how the next two-night shifts go.

Scott

Fantastic Scott. Glad you're able to power through this fast.

Thanks.

For me, fasting is much easier than it sounds. I guess being brain-washed with the 'food for energy', food pyramid. multiple meals per day (grazing) for so many years it makes it still really hard to understand the energy levels while not eating. I have experienced it multiple times, so I know it is real, but struggle with the total disconnect between the two.

The only thing that makes sense of it is the fact the millions upon millions of dollars generated for Big Food, Big Pharma and Big Teck when we graze on the grains and sugars. Beating the dead horse but it always seems to land right around the root cause.

Scott

I was going to wait until tomorrow to check my numbers but on the ride home this morning I had the ketone breath. My mouth tasted like metal so I decided to do the checks.

My blood ketone level is 3.7 so I am pretty deep into ketosis after over a hundred hours of fasting.

My blood glucose was a bit higher than expected at 85. Later in the morning/early afternoon I would expect it to drop a bit. My weight held at 10, maybe 11 pounds if I round up.

Energy levels remain high. I just finished the fifth 12 hour night shift in a row and I have 1 or 2 more.

Scott

I have only gone about 32-6 hours. It's like being on happy pills. I would love to do some more but my husband insists I eat dinner. I will have to give it a try when he is busy with hunting.

17 hours ago, Miranda said:

I have only gone about 32-6 hours. It's like being on happy pills. I would love to do some more but my husband insists I eat dinner. I will have to give it a try when he is busy with hunting.

Tell him when he goes hunting that you will fast until he brings home the meat to provide for his tribe. Primal baybeee!

20 hours ago, Miranda said:

I have only gone about 32-6 hours. It's like being on happy pills. I would love to do some more but my husband insists I eat dinner. I will have to give it a try when he is busy with hunting.

I find it hard to say "you should try this or try that" but it is a bit easier to say "these are the positives I experienced". (if that makes any sense at all?)

So far, and maybe it has been 7 or 8, but I have had only positive experiences from fasting. If added up all the fasts the weight loss was minimal but it was still some weight loss. The first couple three probably made more change in body composition than how I tipped the scale that week.

The energy levels were crazy. I still struggle to wrap my head around how 'no food equals more energy'. I can say all the scientific words I learned getting my Batchelor's by Google and my Master's by You Tube but the first fifty years I was dispositioned that food equaled energy and had to be a part of that equation. This has been a pleasant surprise.

I feel like it has given my immune system a boost, maybe even say making carnivore all the more effective. I wish I could do blood tests the day before and the day after each fast and then lay those numbers over top of one another.

Fasting is not like the magic pill, no more so than carnivore, but the two of them together, with the gym tossed in the mix, has improved my health by leaps and bounds in the last 14 months.

The most recent one did surprise me because of the drop in weight which goes unexplained as the fasts have all been pretty similar.

I went six days and it was so much easier than "six days' sounds. I have seen the time when six hours without eating would have bene a real challenge.

it is most definitely worth a try.

Scott