This happens to me all the time and I usually just have to give in and eat something. Would you consider a large spoonful of coconut oil in order to soothe your stomach? I realize that would mean technically breaking your fast but it could make you feel a whole lot better.

I would try salting your water or eating a little salt between sips. If that doesn't help, I would recommend the pickle...and maybe almonds, but I'm not sure when way I would go. Chocolate tends to trigger my bowel/tummy issues, so I would err away from that myself. I would probably go in order of your list. I have found that because I have no gallbladder, going that long was disastrous for me...

In all likelihood, it is the carb weekend causing this more so than the IF...

auntstephie321 wrote: »

@KnitOrMiss I was thinking the same thing, something about the overindulgence from this weekend but be triggering the intense feeling of hunger and discomfort. I wonder if the pickle would technically end my fast, it contains no carbs and no calories. I really want the chocolate but I do think that would make me feel sick and not really help anything

The pickle actually probably has about 5 calories and depending on the size about 2-4 carbs, so it does have some heft to it, but as long as there are no sugars in the pickle blend, you probably wouldn't trigger the insulin response, but I wouldn't swear to that.

I would avoid that chocolate at all costs. You've got the combo of sugar and caffeine and that would trigger a huge insulin response, and have you rage/breaking that fast... And likely DUMPING in the bathroom shortly thereafter with all that acid feeling you have in your stomach. Though now that I think about it, if it's a big pickle, I'd only eat a portion of it. That vinegar in large quantities causes dumping in my belly/bowel, too...

I'd go with salt, pickle, almonds, bologna, and if only truly desperate, the chocolate, no matter what your head tells you it wants...

I just drink the pickle juice.

You did amazing to fast for 19 hours. Wow, Soldier!!

I keep trying IF but b/c im already on really low calories and feeling depleted to start with, i only manage to fast on a BPC every now and then until lunch. I'd love to do it more often but ive been having to stick an egg in my BPC to feel more satiated and to ensure i get enough protein in to preserve/build muscle, so that obviously ends my fast. Since having the egg in my BPC now im only fasting for 12-13 hours over night, like the average-joe.

Id love to know if fasting for 16+hrs loses you more weight on the same daily cals as just fasting for 12hrs overnight. What's the idea behind fasting? Is it meant to increase your metabolism? I mean, if you ate the same amount of calories on day 1 and day 2, but you fasted for 16 hrs on day 1 and ate your calories after that period, and on day 2 you just spread your calories out as normal from breakfast - would you lose more weight on day 1? Or is the idea of a fast that you DONT eat the same amount of calories as you normally would (ie effectively missing 1 meal's worth of calories)?

OMG, @toadqueen , 2.5 DAYS?! It takes that long? Geeze. That's never going to happen. So what are the benefits of shorter fasts, ie. 16-20hrs? If you're not burning more fat, and you're eating the same amount of calories as you would on a non-fasting day, what are the benefits of IFing?

Wooh, 21 hrs! How do you feel? Have you had your 1st meal or just a snack? Do you feel hungrier or less hungry? Spanish inquisition, sorry, just really interested. Well done, stephie.

Yes I'd say that's the only problem I've run into with the fasting, the lack of sodium in the morning hours. A cup of broth can be added with little insulin effect. Hope tomorrow is better!

toadqueen wrote: »

I used to fast quite often. From everything I read, one begins to burn fat after 2.5 days of water fasting. However, that really messes with the adrenals. I am fasting this month to give my digestive track a break each week and see how I feel.

I have never felt the acid feeling OP described, I just get really bored with long fasts.

Source? Or maybe someone misunderstood along the line?

I'm sorry, but pretty sure the bolded above is incorrect. We «burn» fat all the time, the body is in a constant flux of anabolic and catabolic states. (the cells). There are different degrees on a continuum. We «burn» a higher degree of stored fat overnight during sleep, because the para sympathetic nervous system (relaxed state) regulates metabolism, including endocrine system. And logically we don't eat while sleeping.

As soon as we start eating the body starts to work on that batch, and it will use easy calories like sugar or mct first. Whatever is a surplus over a few days is stored.

I didn't need to water fast to lose weight, and I'd be very surprised if water fasting was a universal component to fat loss, since millions of people lose fat all the time with a caloric deficit. I do think that a water fast is a very efficient weight loss tool and with possible added health effects like more autophagy by mitochondria at 72 hrs. But still not a vital component for fat loss.

Edit: clarity, not meanings.

Just liver. The brain only puts demand on the liver supply. The muscle supplies last as long as the muscle demand is low, I imagine.