What's yall's experience with fasting?

lsu777 turned me onto Leangains by Martin Berkha

The new book is good and there is a lot of info on his site as well that will probably answer all of your questions.

Just FYI, though, Martin himself seems like sort of an arse but his info is solid.

LINK

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I completed a 24 hour fast yesterday and was surprised at how good I felt. I was expecting to feel like shite and that was not the case. After dinner today I plan on attempting a 36 hour fast.

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perfrectly fine and no you wont lose muscle mass doing this.

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My question is - Is it okay to exercise (running in particular) while fasting? Will fastening also cause me to rapidly lose muscle, in addition to the fat? My goal is to lose weight, but I'd like keep muscle mass.

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You will lose muscle mass running. Do walks and lift heavy arse weights for small amounts of oveall volume. no running.


If you are serious about losing fat, the fastest way I know possible is the follow:
48-72 Hour fast
followed by 24-48 hours of eating but staying keto.
repeat

Lift weights using an abreviated RPT or LP program focusing only on the big lifts twice per week.

walk, walk, walk. Shoot for 15-20k steps a day during the fast.

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Only negative side effects I've heard for fasts over 24 hours is it disrupts your sleep cycle.

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It affects your sleep cycle because you will wake up after 4hrs of sleeping and feel completely rested. I’ve done a 14 day water only fast and the mental clarity and energy it provided was almost spiritual.

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but the government brainwashed robots still think you need to eat 5-6 times a day lest you pass out and die

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Its more that you're just a dick about it

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What about an exercise bike or elliptical?

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any cardio or conditioning exercise that gets your heart jacked up will burn muscle. Excpetions would be lifitng or strongman due to the nature of the exercise.

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Is it possible that it felt spiritual because you were so close to death?

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This is probably as good a thread as any to post this question in.

I've recently moved and started walking to work. My walk is about .4 miles and takes me 10-15 minutes. I've been doing IF either on purpose or by accident for years now. I used to not even really be hungry for lunch, but would eat to get away from my desk mainly. Now that I've started walking, I get starving at like 10:30AM. It'll ween off and I can make it until 12:30 or 1 when I usually eat, but my question is this: should that short of a fasted walk be having that big of an impact?

Maybe it's a placebo or I'm a pussy, but it just seems odd.

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I've recently moved and started walking to work. My walk is about .4 miles and takes me 10-15 minutes. I've been doing IF either on purpose or by accident for years now. I used to not even really be hungry for lunch, but would eat to get away from my desk mainly. Now that I've started walking, I get starving at like 10:30AM. It'll ween off and I can make it until 12:30 or 1 when I usually eat, but my question is this: should that short of a fasted walk be having that big of an impact?

Maybe it's a placebo or I'm a pussy, but it just seems odd.

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Not if at all. Actually very common. Doggcrapp uses this exact technique to keep fat at Bay and simulate hunger during a bulk

Cool. Other than water, do you drink anything else? Coffee, no sugar energy drink? I need my caffeine to function.