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Originally Posted by Pr00f
I couldn't find hot beef injections on MyFitnessPal, must be some mistake.
48-hour IF is pretty intense. Are you doing a 48-hour fast consistently or only once a week while doing a less restrictive fast (16:8 / 20:4) the rest of the week?
For this current stint, I'm doing a 20:4 IF cycle and my body/mind has finally gotten used to the cadence. I rarely find myself hungry or low on energy, which makes the fasting pretty normal for me.
Have you seen added benefits (weight loss) with the 48-hour fasting?
Great work on the weight loss so far by the way. I'm hoping to have similar progress on my weigh-in next week.
Trying to do 48 hours once per week. I did it Sunday lunch through Tuesday lunch. I'd do it more often, but don't feel confident I can add in any type of exercise doing it that regularly.
Otherwise, I'm doing a series of 24 hour fasts.
The 48-hour fasting has been beneficial mentally for me. It's helped to accelerate my weight loss for sure, but it's also helped to clear the scale occasionally, to keep me more mentally in it.
You know when you've been in a calorie deficit for a few days, but you've also been running and/or eating high sodium. Your body retains water because of both of those things, so the scale won't budge despite your calorie deficit. This can frustrate me and knock me off track. I find the 48-hour fast clears a lot of that retained water (because I drink a lot of water while fasting). Then the 3 or 4 pounds that have been refusing to come off of the number will fall off.
Ideally those pounds were going to come off anyway, but being able to see it is a big help to me. I have a difficult time trusting the process in the early going if the scale isn't responding.
My energy levels have been fine on 24-hour fasts. Like you, I've gotten into a good rhythm with it. My fiance also eats pretty clean around dinner time, so I'm able to eat healthy along with the fast. That's always been the biggest challenge for me. It's easy to justify eating poorly after a long fast, but I end up benefiting when I can break the fast with some 500-calorie deal my fiance has concocted. Best of both worlds.