Try not to eat between breakfast and the following day's breakfast. You'll be shocked at how difficult this is. Our ancestors went for days without eating; there were not refrigerators, or even agriculture, for most of humanity's existence, so we either had fresh food and ate, or we starved.
Because of this eating/starving cycle, a symbiosis formed, between us and the bacteria that live in us. Think of these bacteria as an extremely blue collar workforce; it's hard work, but you get the job done and then you die. When times are good the populations grow up, but they always stay in balance.
Fast forward to today, and most of us have abundant food available anytime of the day, and for many of us, this food contains such cheaply available calories (glucose, fructose, etc.) that we have created a welfare state for bacteria. Just like with a human welfare state, it's no longer the bacteria that serve the most important purpose that thrive, it's the bacteria that reproduce at the fastest rate, given the available energy medium. As a result, our immune systems are partially tasked with destroying bacteria that have no business existing in our bodies in such high numbers. This wreaks havoc on our health more than any other thing we do.
There are various schools of thought when it comes to fasting, but, as a general principle, fasting, to some degree, on a regular basis, creates a biome inside of you that more closely represents how we naturally existed before the advent of french fries and corn bread.
None of this is medical advice and I am not a medical professional.
Just finished 72 hour fast to heal some things. I do this every 3 months or so. I continue to oil pull, drink green tea and water with electrolytes during the fast. To break the fast, I drink chicken or bison bone broth and have a protein-rich meal 4 hours later to help promote muscle growth when I exercise. After the fast, you feel reborn and refreshed. I highly recommend it for general health.
I do the same and have worked up to over 100 hours now. The “reborn” sentiment is very real. As is the appreciation for food when you come back. The mental clarity is astounding and the biggest reason I keep doing it periodically. During the work week I practice intermittent fasting, eating within a 4-8 hour window everyday - sometimes one meal/day. On weekends I’m more lax depending on what’s going on. I STRONGLY suggest everyone implements fasting into their life.
Nice. During the work week, I also eat within a 4-6 hour window, so I am “intermittent fasting” for 18-20 hours per day. Once you fast, it’s hard to stop because you start to notice how mentally clear and physically rejuvenated you feel. It also helps me realize how toxic our food is and it’s good to let your body take a break from digestion, which is a taxing process on the human body. Over 100 hours is impressive! I have a new goal to achieve.
I agree completely. The mental clarity while waking up every day is shockingly noticeable (and addicting). Anxiety gone, brain fog gone, increased focus… I feel like everything is just “clicking” on a personal mindset and work performance level.
The refueling process has me hyper conscious about what I’m putting in my body following the fast. Real, whole foods only (broth, then eggs, then fruit and meat) and even after 100 hours my refuel time is pretty low compared to what I’ve read- typically have a cup of grass fed bone broth, then 2 pasture raised eggs about an hour-2 later, some bites of banana/berries, then some ground beef/steak and cheese within 6 hours of breaking the fast. I try to use the best quality available to me but I’m on a budget so I’m not always as good as I’d like to be.
As for the extended fasting, After the 3 day marker, the hunger subsided almost completely. I returned to eating after the 4.5 day mark mostly due to boredom (water only) and wanting to workout again. I have been reading some material that encourages working out during the fast but obviously muscle fatigue sets in much more rapidly. Going to try next time.
Well done! I've been a big proponent of water-only fasting and I've been doing it for years now. It's generally safe to do as long as you have stable blood pressure and healthy kidneys, and have enough fat in your body to sustain it (not a problem for most of us).
In fact, you can fast until your fat stores are nearly empty and still function reasonably well, many such cases. Of course, you don't hear about the benefits of water fasting in the media because it's bad for business.
That's awesome. I'm gonna do the bone broth thing I think when I do a long fast coming up. Sounds like everybody uses that.
For some reason I read chicken as children and had to do a double take
Interesting (RE: spike proteins)... TBH, I've never done anything longer than I think something like 36 hours. I've been wanting to do a longer one, although I'm not a subscriber of the idea that we should be doing week long ones or longer, but I think a 72 hour fast would be great for me.
Nice, I'm gonna try it. The last time I did more than 12 hours was last summer.
I don't have proof on hand for this, but jsyk the spike protein isn't a protein as they've led us to believe. It's a tiny nematode called a C. Elegans, sometimes referred to in literature as a "protein" because it has such cellular simplicity. This worm in a roundabout way reaches your brain and causes strokes, which causes potentiometer "spikes".
I tell you this because these strokes and that worm (wrapped inside a lipid nanoparticle to pierce the blood brain barrier) are going to be the most important distinction between you and the jabbed, so you ought to know what to recognize.
What in the :/
What made you think this was the case?
Wait, are you saying this nematode will be in the unvaccinated, but not in the vaccinated? Could you explain that last paragraph, etc. a bit more?
No the nematode worm will be only in the injected. Actually it will be long dead but it is a genetically altered hermaphrodite so it will mate with itself and give 30 child worms, then immediately commit suicide due to its cell-death encoding.
Absolutely. Eating 3 square meals a day is the biggest psyop ever invented and will make you fat, lazy, and sick if you keep it up for too long.
Never really thought of it this way but makes sense. Just think of those instances where you you over indulge or after a full meal in general. That’s when you’re lazy complacent, and content with rotting on the couch watching propaganda until your hunger returns. For most people, it is a difficult trap to break out of.
3 meals a day is how you create docile, obedient slaves.
Oh, why? From peeing out your electrolytes?
I’ve never had better tasting fruit than coming out of a fast. Holy shit, it tastes incredible. Take care!
I still have yet to try a 72 hour fast, but I think I'm going to do so very soon. I think I'll do it during the weekdays.
Interesting... trying to imagine a non-nefarious reason why they would remove such a reference. There isn't one.
I wonder EXACTLY what their motivation was?
Orthodox Christians still practice a few annual fasting rituals.
I just finished reading that article; it actually makes the case that there were no such edits to the bible. I'm always suspicious of debunking websites after the advent of Snopes, though.
Exactly, the concept of "debunking" makes me cringe so hard, always some weasly little nerd, still living with his mom, with pronouns in his profile, but he's the source of truth. Literally Snopes' founder.
Here is a good, high-level resource on fasting benefits over 72 hours: https://usetemper.com/learn/metabolic-step-by-step/
Thanks
I usually make coffee in the morning and fry one egg. I also have two pieces of bacon or sausage.
Then I do not eat until around 5pm.
For a lunch, I drink water. I might bring jar of peanut butter with me and a couple pieces of whole grain wheat bread or a banana.
For dinner I do a meat, vegetable, and starch. Dessert should be some kind of fresh fruit with fat free whip cream. Blue berries or strawberries mixed with yogurt is a healthy dessert.
Well, that's my routine at least. I sometimes go almost a day without eating as long as I'm well hydrated.
If you are trying to cut weight, stop eating things that make you feel bloated. Starch, carbohydrates, anything with corn syrup or enriched flour in it. Cut out seed oils and unsaturated fats. Also, find a way to mentally block the feeling of hunger. If your brain says "i'm hungry" then find a way to distract that feeling or bury it subconsciously. I've often been hungry and somehow make the feeling go away or ignore it.
Ditch anything “low fat” asap. But definitely stick with the meat and fruit, add whole fat products (satiate the body properly) and zero added sugar. Anyone else here subscribe to Paul Saladino aka carnivore MD (2.0 after getting the boot off Instagram/media platforms for bashing the vax and encouraging critical thinking)?
That's kind of how I normally operate also, healthy breakfast and then no food until dinner. And yeah that's an interesting thing (making hunger go away), there's this video I watched about a year ago from some Indian guy who is full bore on fasting and he talks about how hunger has nothing to do with your bodies need for energy and is purely created from hormones in a process that kicks off after each meal.
Ghrelin I believe is the hormone for those interested.
I believe you are correct, IIRC.
Coffee has been bad for me. THere were periods when I used to work an office job when I'd slam 3 or 4 cups every morning. Too much coffee makes me sweat and get jittery. I felt addicted for a while. What I mean is I'd have withdraw or a hard morning without the coffee. It was like a drug. I needed my fix or I was gonna get less work done. Also the coffee gave me acid reflux.
Now i stick to just one or two cups coffee, made kinda weak, and drink more water
I'm gonna try to get creative and make some good home made iced teas this summer. Might experiment with some different kinds of tea leaves and do some infusion with stuff i pull out the garden.
I gave up coffee for similar reasons. Very sensitive to the caffeine and messes with my blood sugar and mood - makes me very snappy and short tempered. I have black tea now and then switch to caffeine-free drinks for the rest of the day. Much better for me and everyone that interacts with me.
That's a good idea (the tea), that's something I don't really ever drink but I do enjoy. Pertaining coffee, same here, I used to drink giant amounts of coffee, but now I only drink about two medium sized cups per day. My routine involves filling the coffee cup one time and then refilling it when it's about a third left, and it's a fairly large cup, so I figure if I end up drinking most of the second filling then it's about the equivalent of two medium sized cups, which is not too horrible.
I definitely enjoy coffee so much that I can't imagine not having it. Part of our survival prep is some Pilon mylar sealed coffee that I buy every year and throw away the last year's. I've never even tried this stuff, but I figure it'll be better than nothing when SHTF and I've got enough to last my wife and me for about a month (only a month, since it's a semi-luxury item).
I've never heard of the snake diet, but that sounds like the right mix of things if you were gonna be fasting for a while. That's the other thing, I've never taken any kind of supplement or drank broth or anything like that while I was fasting, but because I've never fasted for longer than 36 hours I don't think I've ever reached that point of needing those things so badly. I suspect that with the help of those things, I'll be able to handle a longer fast.
It's funny that you were trying to go down from 206 BTW, I'm trying to go back up to 205-ish (my goal weight to remain at). I slowed down a little bit at the gym in 2021 and got down to 195 (was 207, give or take a meal), so now I'm working my way back up.
👍 - I have been eating mostly between 12-8pm and no more than 2 meals a day for quite a long time and it's way better. I never get hungry any more unless I haven't eaten for maybe a day. I find myself sometimes leaving before I eat a meal, and not eating until I get home past dinner time, so 24 hours between my last meal.
I don't hard fast though, I drink water, tea, coffee, and add milk to my coffee. Fruits or some cheese if I want to snack on something between a meal.
That's good, have you noticed a difference between how do you feel when you eat more and steadily verses on those times when you skip an extra meal?
Yeah, if I eat earlier than normal, I get hungrier than normal and usually want to eat more.
Fruit however doesn't have the same impact. Because I tend to eat fruit alone and whole where possible, it seems to be more filling. It lasts a while, but if I have toast, muffins, or any kind of bread I find I am hungry before a couple hours and it's actually noticeable.
Meat, nuts, cheese and fruit are the only things I find are good for snacking without a crash, but also moderation.
Same here; if I have toast or any kind of junk carb at lunch, I will be starving within a couple hours, whereas I can go without eating lunch any day and not feel like I'm starving even at dinner time.
Yeah, it's weird. The only exception is if I have a hearty selection of good crackers (seeds, cranberries,etc) and mix in cheese and meat and veggies etc. Most bread though or sweets like cookies is just a trap. I still treat myself to them from time to time, but it's always the same - a bit of hunger and extra eating to compensate.
I prefer chocolate for my treats. Good chocolate goes a long way when you are not eating much. You can have a small piece of good chocolate and go like an extra hour or two longer before you need to eat a meal
It is tough to just eat breakfast. I'm not sure I could ever do it for more than a day or two. Eating only at night on the other hand is one of the easiest things ever. I have been doing a 20:4 IF m-f for about 5 years (I normally start eating around 8pm). I feel terrible if I eat during day while working. I dropped about 85 lbs this way and have it kept off for years. To be clear, you are probably better off doing a morning window if you can swing it; I think it is probably better for fat loss...but so much harder to stick with IMO.
That's interesting, I don't think I could regularly skip breakfast, in fact I'd probably be more likely to skip dinner.
I find this as true also. I can often do 12 hours just forgetting to eat lunch on time. Wife goes in early and gets off early so often we eat an early dinner and I just skip lunch anyway. Once the first or second hormone call (ghrelin?) passes. Once you skip that first or second call for scheduled feeding it not a thought nearly as much, in some like me it can be hard to get hungry again once that hormone isn't being dumped by our body. If you have a hard time getting started eating again after being sick you may be heavily sensitive to said hormone.
I fasted two days not eating so let's say from Monday night to Thursday morning, then ate two days, then did it again for about a year. I didn't do it for my health but because I was poor and in an abusive relationship and it felt like it gave me some control.
You really have no idea what hunger is until you fast. It's fascinating how much you start fantasizing about food once you get super hungry. What I thought was neat was that by Wednesday morning my eyesight felt sharper and I just felt healthier. Wednesday afternoon and night was when the food fantasies would start.
It was wild. I don't think I could do it long term again. But every once in a while I do it just to remind myself if what hunger really is. It reminds me that I don't need to snack.
I have my bf do it with me and the first time I thought he was going to lose his mind (food addict and knows it) but after that he did realize he didn't need as much food as the thought and realized he's not going to collapse like his doc made it sound.
Slow (living) within fast (process of dying) aka want (appetite) within need (hunger)...
The way we naturally existed was fat, meat, eggs, seeds and nuts. When you eat grain and sugar your body starves when you fast because you don't use stored fat.
Replace seeds and nuts with fruits and dairy and that’s the golden ticket to health imo after years of trial and research
I used to feel this way too, but I am not so sure anymore. I mean, our digestive systems are basically the same as the monkeys and apes we evolved from. What major physiological adaptions have take place in the 500,000-2 million years since we left the tree's? I'm sure there are some but I don't think there has been anything major like the colon length or digestive chemistry, the microbiome, etc. I mean our gut bacteria still produces TMAO in response to animal proteins. Not sure, but I hear that stuff is problematic.
have been doing it naturally all my life..
The most effective fast is no water, no food aka dry fasting. Three days for healthy men and women, 7 and more for people with serious disease. Tried it incredible. We have all of the healing available in our body for free! We are super beings! :)
If I only drink the 64oz recommended amount of water in a day I wake up dehydrated by the next morning. I don't know how anyone who's sick could dry fast for 7 days
7 days without water == death.