From Monday morning until Friday night, I’d only drink water. I might miss the tea more than the food. Then there’s the obvious fat loss benefit. 12:30am: Otherwise, felt amazing today. It can help distract you and bring mental clarity. My theory is that my body was rationing its energy mostly towards brain functioning and movement, and not spending as much on thermogenesis. Special thanks to Adil Majid and Zachary Rousselle for checking in on me to make sure I was alive during the fast. So do you, reader. I find that my ability to think is slower, more deliberate. At 6’3 and 205 pounds, I was deemed “overweight.” Insulting. 1:00am: Going to bed later today too, we’ll see how that affects things. The energy burned can disrupt the body’s ability to release toxins because the cleansing process requires energy. Seem to be fine despite only sleeping eight hours and staying up till 1. Days one and two were rough, day three was great except for when I was in boring meetings. Don’t eat ANYTHING. I regain the energy quickly though, and it’s only a physical fatigue, not a mental one. It's a collection of fascinating finds from my week, usually about psychology, technology, health, philosophy, and whatever else catches my interest. Your email address will not be published. We might kill a gazelle one day, share it with our tribe, then go two days without access to meat and have little to subsist on. 7:00 pm: So tired, feels like it’s midnight or later. It’s a concern on fasts five days or longer, and when you’ve lost a lot of body weight. I settled for a more realistic fast of five days and nights. Oops! Days four and five I felt amazing. But here’s what doesn’t make sense: a lot of the sites that talk about fasting say that you should start with fruits and vegetables since they’re easily digestible. Hardly being productive at all, good thing I finished stuff earlier. I bike around without any issue, but when I try to pedal up a steep incline, I feel woozy, sit for a moment and walk my bike the rest of the way. 12:00 pm: Noticed some slight hunger around noon, have a bit more water. What I’ve learned from doing experiments like this is that when you get into newer areas of research (like fasting), 99% of the information online is contradictory nonsense and you have to figure it out on your own. As I’ve mentioned a few times now, this was a very, very positive experience. I Used the COVID-19 Pandemic to Try a 5-Day Fast. 12:00 pm: This might be the best I’ve felt mentally in my entire life. They talked about staying in bed for most of days 2 and 3, not walking more than a half mile, and keeping their activity low even during the refeeding period. If I adhered to this, I would become a new and better man. All it took was a brief text conversation with a friend about how he planned to keep the quarantine weight off for the algorithm to find me. I think I was dehydrated in the morning. 10:30 am: Class was much easier to go through today, feel so much better than Tuesday, and even better than Wednesday. I didn’t pick up a spoon, fork, knife, pair of chopsticks, beer bottle, or finger-food for 120 hours until 6:00 pm, Thursday, February 19th. I stick with a single train of thought for longer than usual. Hint: I like Malbec. If you were in the wild, and you hadn’t eaten in four days, and you managed to kill a deer, you wouldn’t go forage for berries before eating it to “work yourself up to it.” You’d eat the damn deer. I threw in some Potassium and Phosphate supplements as well. Oh, one last positive. No pain really, though my brain feels a little foggy, slight tunnel vision. But, I also find my libido to be nonexistent. Whether you fast for 24 hours or 24 days, you can still exercise. No one agrees really, so I drank a lot of Brita-filtered water and didn’t worry about it. There’s no reason to stop that, it only does good things, and I don’t even know if I could now that I’ve gotten so used to it. I only lift 3 days a week even if I don't fast. If you treat your body like glass then it will stay like glass. And the science appears to back it up. While intermittent fasting seems like a reasonable, everyday program, we are not in reasonable, everyday times, so I decided to do something a bit more intense. Fasting also improves your insulin sensitivity, meaning your body can better process Oreos instead of sending them to your waistline when you decide to cheat. I find the impetus to look leaner and more powerful stronger than living longer. Refeeding is the process of steadily introducing food to your body in such a way that you don’t totally crash your system. Practicing fasters say the hardest part of the fast is between the second and fourth days. I could binge all six seasons of The Sopranos with all the time I’m not spending with food. 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