Reddit Keto

Join

Intermittent Fasting and Fat Fasting

Options
Spooniest_Bard
Spooniest_Bard Posts: 4
in Social Groups
Does anyone have any accurate information on how to do either of these?

Intermittent fasting is basically do not eat anything, but stay hydrated for 18 hours. Then you may eat again.

Fat Fast is the same thing except you can eat things that are ~100% fat such as coconut oil.

Please correct me on these things, I wanna try them :)

Replies

  • trkinsley
    trkinsley Posts: 124 Member
    Options
    IF can be a varying amt of fasting, from hours to days. If you're following leangains, for women it's generally a 14 hr fast with a 10 hr feeding window daily. With eat-stop-eat, it's typically a 24 hr fast (from 6 pm to 6 pm usually) from one to more days/week.

    My understanding of a fat fast is essentially as you've stated it; for some reason, I have 90% fat in my head as the macro that you're shooting for, but I may be mixing macros in my brain.
  • plannetofmars
    plannetofmars Posts: 5
    Options
    Here's the info I've used in the past:
    http://www.carbsmart.com/fatfast.html
    http://www.low-carb.com/atarfatfa.html

    I usually do it with a tub of mascarpone cheese or full fat cream cheese.
  • losethatshit
    losethatshit Posts: 22
    Options
    This book/PDF helped me a lot with IF. If you're interested it's a must read and will help a lot if you decide to go that route.

    http://uranus.ckt.net/~gochiefs/Eat Stop Eat.pdf

    It's called "eat, stop, eat" and I originally found this thanks to someone on reddit. I found that I was basically doing a lot of this anyway without the book or reading anything about it online so when I actually found out there was a "right" way to do this, things got easier.
  • crazyeight88
    crazyeight88 Posts: 5
    Options
    So I just read that through, and it's really interesting. I'm excited to try it out. My appetite has been so reduced with keto, I think it'll be a really nice experiment to see how I cope. Thanks for the link.
  • crazyeight88
    crazyeight88 Posts: 5
    Options
    As a mini update, I did my first of two fasts this week on Sunday. It was actually really REALLY easy. Surprisingly so. And I felt so amazing that day, so clear headed. I give ESE two thumbs up, so far.
  • chienism
    chienism Posts: 8
    Options
    I'm going to try this too-- not sure if I want to focus on IF or fat fasting. I think I'm going to try three days of fat fasting first, and then IF in a week or two to see what happens.
  • glycophobe
    glycophobe Posts: 5 Member
    Options
    Did you notice any difference in your weight loss from IF?

Categories