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'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.
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).
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.
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.
I remember how bad it was 20 years ago, in HALO 3 - I was dodging somebody who had that plasma sword or whatever, he was running straight at me, so I moved to his right and aimed at his flank, started blasting him, and then, all of the sudden, I was somewhere completely different, running off the edge of a cliff.