u/AuthenticNotion

It was hard but I feel amazing. Like a completely new person. I feel better, I look better, my mind is sharper and quieter, I've been having deep insights and realizations.

I broke my fast this morning before work with some bone broth and an avocado and took some steak with me and ate it slowly throughout the day at work. When I got home, I had more steak and eggs.

I wanted to ease into eating again. When I've done longer fasts before I would break my fast with bone broth, an avocado with sauerkraut, and then protein with about half an hour between each step and then just go back to eating whatever. But this time I'm giving myself at least 24 to 48 hours before reintroducing any carbs and I feel like it makes a huge difference.

It's also the first time doing more than a 48 hour fast while working such a physically demanding job. The heat made it really difficult on the third day but I stayed hydrated with water and electrolytes. I was definitely moving a bit slower but my mind felt really sharp.

Now I'm having a hard time falling asleep because I feel so energized from all that protein.

It was a challenging but overall wonderful experience and I'm looking forward to the next one!

Fasting showed me how much time and energy I was using on food. Meal planning, grocery shopping, cooking, washing dishes. I was always thinking about what I was going to eat next.

When I'm fasting, there's so much more time and energy available that I'm struggling a little bit with what to do with that. I'm not complaining. This is actually a great feeling. It's just different and is taking some time to adjust to. Anyone else experience this?

This post is mostly just for the women.

I do 36 hour fasts every other day during the first 10 days of my cycle. Then again days 16 -19. Sometimes I switch it up and do a 24 or a 48 hour fast. I follow Dr Mindy Pelz's advice for women that you shouldn't do long fasts during ovulation or fast at all during the luteal phase.

I stopped fasting about 5 months ago because I started a really physically demanding job and wasn't used to that much strain on my body. Now that I'm more used to the physical work, I started fasting again at work and wow! I feel amazing and I'm not even hungry after a long day of work!

I think I'm going to try to just fast straight through my follicular phase next month and see how I feel. The longest I've ever done was 72 hours and that was great!

Are there any women here who fast 10 days straight at the beginning of their cycle? I'd love to hear your experience with that.

Edit: this post was not about Mindy Pelz. I just mentioned one thing that I learned from her work that has helped me in my fasting journey. I had no idea people were so triggered by her. It's fascinating to me how people see one thing they disagree with and then completely disregard everything else being said.