Now that was an experience!
My first 72 hour fast was completed yesterday at 11.45AM.
This was just in time for a Diwali celebration lunch at work with amazing and delicious Indian treats and curries. I felt like I could eat everything in sight but quickly realised after my first helping that my stomach didn't quite have the size available to match my eyes' expectations! I finished a second helping feeling comfortably full, satiated and ready for an afternoon nap.
The final hours leading up to my goal were not easy. The night before I was feeling some pretty intense hunger pangs in the stomach. I got through by telling myself the first time I did 24 and 48 hours were very similar feelings. I also had a dull headache.
I then woke up in the morning feeling very groggy. My brain felt like it was screaming to wake up properly but just couldn't. This may have been part of the process of switching to ketosis for the first time but I'm not 100% sure. I'm going to test it out again on another 3 day fast sometime in the near future.
My main assumption is that I am not very fat adapted. My diet is vegetarian / vegan with moderately high(ish) carb so may have had a harder time than usual switching from glycogen to ketones. All in all, I'm very keen to keep going. My goal is to eventually get to a 14 or 20 day fast one day soon but I want to feel good (without the obvious expected symptoms) while doing it.
Bring it on!
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