Journal Of My First 48 Hour Fast For Weight Loss
I’ve been fasting for weight loss (well, mostly for all the other fasting benefits, not really weight loss) for awhile now, however all I’ve done so far is 24 hour fasts which are actually really easy for me now.
So the other day I decided I wanted to try doing a 48 hour fast. Not that it has any extraordinary benefits over the 24 hour fasts for weight loss purposes, I just figured I’d try it because I like to push myself and see what I can do (you should too).
To be honest, I’d actually recommend doing 24 hour fasting for weight loss instead of 48 so you can help preserve your muscle much easier – this was simply an experiment I wanted to try out.
So I’m going to keep a journal of the entire 48 hours and let you know what emotions/feelings I’m going through for my entire 48 hour fast.
Enjoy!
Sunday, 6 p.m. – Just ate my last meal, plus an extra protein shake so my body had a little more protein. I think I’ll lose a little muscle during this fast, so I’ll do an extra hard workout on Tuesday when I’m finished with it. Plus, the muscle loss will be so minimal that I won’t even be able to notice, and it’ll come back pretty quick (muscle memory).
Sunday, 7 p.m. – I actually just got a hunger feeling, even though I was completely stuffed an hour ago. My digestive system is a little weird sometimes.
Monday, 8:30 a.m. – Just wrote you a new blog post – Why Your Weight Loss Goals Should Be Craaazzzzyyy (opens in a new window) – just got a tiny hunger sensation while drinking coffee, not bad at all though. I’ve actually come to embrace the hunger sensation (I know that sounds weird – I’ll write a blog post about it at some point in the future). I have a feeling I’m going to feel hungry whenever I post these updates, so I hope you appreciate this post because it’s going to make this 48 hour fast a lot harder for me! 
Monday, 6p.m. – Just hit the 24 hour mark, still going strong. It actually felt like I didn’t even miss any meals. I met with my fiancee’s priest to do wedding things today and worked up until now, so I’m busy today which helped. Being busy while fasting is one of the best things you could possibly do to make it easy.
Monday, 10;30 p.m. – Just got kind of hungry because I’m thinking about food now, but nothing bad. It’s pretty cool that hunger pains literally don’t bother me anymore. It’s kind of a “neutral” sensation if you could understand what that feels like. So I’m up to 28.5 hours right now and still doing perfectly fine. Only got hungry a total of 3 times in 28 hours, and all 3 times were when I was writing about it here. So much to “you’ll starve if you don’t eat all day long” eh?
Tuesday, 1:30 p.m. – This is actually easier than I thought it would be, although now that I only have 4.5 hours left, I can feel myself wanting to eat. I’m not hungry, in fact a little while ago I actually felt like I was full, it’s just a mental thing telling me to eat. I just finished a cup of Oolong tea and have a little bit of an upset stomach. I think I might stick with peppermint tea if I do this again. Even though I haven’t eaten in 43.5 hours now, I’m still full of energy. No light-headedness, dizziness, or any of that stuff either.
Tuesday 4:30 p.m. – Man, talk about tempting! I’m putting together dinner for my family as well as finding 10 recipes – and I haven’t eaten now in 46.5 hours! I gotta say I’m pretty hungry now, but I can definitely control it. Doing this has been a great experience so far and I honestly recommend everybody reading this does it –not just for the health benefits, but to learn how to control your body and the feelings/sensations you have.
Tuesday 6:00 p.m. – I made it! To be honest it really wasn’t all that hard. I probably got hungry about 6 or so times (give or take 1-2). It’s actually 5:50 right now and I’m in the middle of getting dinner ready for 6, but close enough right? Below, I’ll give a 2 day summary of what I thought.
Ok so here’s a little summary of my entire experience:
First of all, it wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought it would be. I’m used to 24 hour fasts and have never gone about 26 or so before this – so I thought it would be 2x as hard. But it really wasn’t.
I experienced no dizziness or light-headedness. I also experienced just as high of energy levels as I normally have, which to be honest I didn’t expect. I actually thought my energy would have dwindled.
As far as doing it again, I probably wouldn’t unless I wasn’t going to be able to fast again for another week or 2. It wasn’t an inconvenience for me at all, in fact, I got a ton of work done during these past 2 days with a mind probably more clear than it usually is.
I honestly think this is a great thing to do. Not only do you get to challenge yourself which is a great thing to do on a variety of levels, but you simply learn to get more in tune with your own body which I think is the best fasting benefit.
Try it out and let me know how it goes for you!
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