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Tomorrow's the final day of my fast for clarity during Big Project Month. I'm losing too much weight, so I need to recharge. I'm going out to get fresh foods now. 🥗
Mushroom celery soup will start off the refeed, nice and gentle and nutrient rich, followed by a greek yoghurt, spinach, & blueberry smoothie to get probiotic action going again after three weeks.
If those go well, then simple solids. Then I am SO CRAVING a traditional cazuela. 🎉😋 What a gift food is going to be!
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Wait… not eating makes you think more clearly?
I’m… /very/ confused. If I don’t eat, I start turning into a caveman.
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When you go into a longer fast your body is in ketosis, fat-burning instead of carb-burning. Takes about two or three days if you aren't already on keto, but then the good stuff happens. Autophagy is at its highest, your body is recycling damaged cell structures, & best of all, it's acting hormonally like it thinks you need to go hunting, so you can get a huge energy boost. With shorter fasts, like alternate day fasting, your body can get good energy boosts too.
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Oh ketosis, got it.
I’ve learned a bit about that from research involving wilderness survival - what to expect with starvation, etc - and also a bit when looking into keto diet, because I’ve been needing to lose weight.
There are some health risks associated with the Keto diet and fasting that I didn’t like… can’t remember what they were, I’d have to go look it all up again. And also rebound weight gain and the “famine mode” your body can go into.
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Oh, lots to cover here:
1) "Famine mode" is a myth about keto; muscle loss comes from when the body is still burning carbs, but when it switches into fat-burning fully your body isn't going to self-destruct. Ketosis without food input leads the body to burn fat and damaged cellular structures; there's research showing maintenance and even strengthening of muscle systems in long term fasts.
THAT SAID, people who use it as a quickie weight loss diet do rebound:
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That's because
2) Keto burns fat and leads to rapid water loss weight. That water loss is what balloons back quickly for folks who treat it as a quickie cure.
Meanwhile,
3) The keto diet (separate from ketosis under extended fasting) was developed for epilepsy patients. Epilepsy and mood disorders share treatment pathways, which is why recent research is noting the benefit for folks with bipolar (like me) and other conditions connected to inflammation.
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Bringing us to
4) Ketosis is part of the keto diet *and* a natural consequence of fasting, but the two aren't the same. While you're still eating, even on keto, autophagy isn't in high gear. With fasting, human growth hormone surges & autophagy rises. Autophagy won the Nobel Prize in 2016, & fasting protocols are a regularly studied & applied part of mainstream treatments to help the body's immune system when combating, say, cancer.
So, a rich field of study!
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Ultimately, though, if you're looking to lose weight, I'd recommend caution. I think the stat is around 93 to 97 percent of all weight loss diets failing, precisely because they *are* diets.
To keep off the weight one loses, one needs a lifestyle one can live with long term. And that's super tough. It doesn't have to be all or nothing, though. Making small lifestyle changes, like no snacking, might be enough to feel better. Be kind with yourself as you explore!
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Yeah, I decided on just calorie counting (weight loss is, in the end, just intake < output) and switching to healthier foods.
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Oh, I strongly disagree with the calories in calories out model (it fails to account for the third variable in biochemical processing: hormonal response, which includes the role of insulin resistance in modifying how and at what rate calories in are consumed).
But there's a WHOLE lot of research into the problems with CICO that you can look into if you want - and if you're comfortable with your strategy, then all power to you. Be safe, and be kind to yourself!
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@MLClark
Oh I know there’s variables in what happens TO the calories, I’m just saying weight loss is, mathematically, you have to eat less than you metabolize and excrete. So I’m just using basic math that estimates that and tells me how much I can eat to lose the weight I need to lose in the time frame I need to, and what I need to eat to stay healthy while doing it.