Longhorn Al

I broke my fast early. I ate Saturday & Sunday. Had way too many carbs both days. Haven't weighed. No idea what it did to the scale. But I don't feel bloated, and am not retaining excess water. I'm sure I gained some scale weight, but I'm not terribly worried about that. I get too dang hungry around Day 6 of my fasts and end up breaking them. I don't think 10-14 days is in the cards for me right now. I'm going to keep aiming for 0 calories Mon-Fri, then eat on the weekends. I just need to get my carbs in check.

I've never had bulletproof coffee. I tried bulletproof tea a couple times. It's not for me. I'd rather fast than drink that crap.

It had zero affect on me. No "flu." No headaches (I rarely get those anyway). I have no idea why. Almost everyone goes through it. I've read 3 days to a week for it to subside. Keep hydrated.

My grass is all gone. It's a lost cause right now. Front yard is almost completely shaded by 2 large, young oaks, and the ground is blanketed in acorns. Before I even think about tackling that, I have to deal with my side yard between me and one of my neighbors. It's a disaster. The swale has always been soggy. Would stay that way for a week or two after a heavy rain. The neighbor behind me is on a hill, and it runs down to me. But it's much worse now. I have had standing water for weeks, if not months. It's started to grow moss. It wreaks havoc on the crappy fence. A couple of things come to mind: Over a year ago, my sewer line backed up. City came out and dug a big hole in my front yard by the sidewalk and replaced a bunch of pipes and cleaned my tree's roots out of the line. I think the ground looks a little higher now. Could be blocking the flow of runoff. The sidewalk has collapsed at the joint right at the end of the swale. The ground beneath it has been washed out. I don't have gutters. I may get some vinyl ones from HD and put them on the sides of my house. Any little bit will help, I guess. Could my neighbor on the hill have a leak and it's running down to me? I have a drainage/landscape specialist coming out next week to investigate and give me his thoughts and an estimate. He said he's seeing a ton of ground water at the surface the last few months because we're so saturated. Hopefully he'll just need to contour the land so it'll slope toward the sidewalk, then fix the sidewalk as well. I'm thinking about just going ahead and making it a bed of rocks the entire length of the bog once it's fixed. Then the fence will have to be replaced! Yay.

Under 20g of NET carbs is pretty much guaranteed to put you in ketosis. Everybody is different, though. Some can get away with 50g+ and stay in ketosis. The apples, depending on sweetness, put you over 20g. For example, 1 small Gala apple has 21 net grams of carbs. Two = 42g. 2oz of peanuts is roughly 4g net carbs. I have no idea what that soup is, but I googled its nutrition. 1 cup is about 4g net carbs. That meatloaf definitely had carbs in it. You'd have to look up how many. Your total for the day: 50g + meatloaf + small amount from cabbage & Brussels sprouts You probably didn't induce ketosis, but you've definitely reduced your carb intake. Probably enough that you've started burning off some of your stored glycogen. Get even stricter, and you'll be there in no time.

92 hours in I've lost roughly 5 lbs. That's half what I gained last weekend. I've done 30 minutes of walking the last 3 nights. Drank plain water (some with Mio) the first couple of days. Had 1 liter of Snake Juice and 1 liter plain water yesterday. Last night as I got ready for the gym, I noticed I was retaining water in my lower legs. That hasn't been a common theme for me since going Keto and fasting. Bought some compression socks to wear while at work. They seem to help so far.

Multiple ones. They never have any clue about anything. Nobody even gives me a guess as to why my cholesterol is chronically low despite my obesity. Cholesterol is the building block for testosterone and other hormones. They have to be linked. My TSH levels were high a couple years ago. I did a few months of meds, then just quit taking them. Went back last year and my TSH was normal. All I had done was go Keto. Endo just said, "Huh. That's weird." Great insight. My current one is at least younger and open to new ideas. But if anyone has a suggestion for a top-of-the-line endo in the Austin area, please share.

I saw this last year, but had forgotten which doctor it was. He starts talking about energy wasting (vs. using and storing) at 23:25. I was trying to think of this when we were talking about CICO.

I'll be a guinea pig. Last year, I did a couple of body scans and did a BMR test. I was doing Keto, but not fasting a ton. I'm doing a lot of fasting now. I'll give it another month or two of extended fasts to really get affected by it either way. Then I'll do the tests again and post the results. Off the top of my head, my BMR was around 2450. It was about 200-250 below where it "should" be based on my size.

You first said fasting kills your metabolism. We said it doesn't. Now you say fasting doesn't improve your metabolism. Studies have shown that metabolism goes UP during a fast. At least for the first 2-3 days. If your argument is that fasts longer than 72 hours will hurt your metabolism, I could entertain that. What I've read from doctors like Jason Fung is that the BMR increases, then comes back down to normal or slightly below normal, as the fast extends out. Maybe you're also talking about different people. A lean person should not fast for days on end. I believe you'd be right that it would hurt their metabolism, and eat their muscle. They don't have any stored energy to live off. But a fat person like myself has plenty of energy. The body can fast and not hurt because it has plenty to eat.

I lost 90+ last year in 8+ months. I can tell you exactly why I gained 40 of it back before January. I left the reservation. I ate pizza, Tex-Mex, burgers, bbq, onion rings, etc. It was my old ways. But even though I did that for the last 3-4 months of 2018, it was mostly water. I say that because I lost 30+ in January and my ketones were higher than they've ever been. My body was still fat-adapted. I'm sure I have some underlying issues that I'm trying to correct, such as insulin resistance and fatty liver. My metabolism was likely wrecked after years of yo-yo calorie restricted dieting. My thyroid is a little out of whack, and my testosterone is low. My cholesterol is also very low (100-120 total). I'm just trying to work on my weight so that these things can heal. Once they do, and I get closer to my goal weight, I'll start planning how to eat and gain muscle while in a fasting lifestyle. Maybe I'll be OMAD. Maybe I'll do 48hr fasts, lift heavy, then re-feed on high protein and some complex carbs to spike my insulin and build muscle. Then fast another 48. Rinse. Repeat. I have a long way to go before I worry too much about that. Fasting works. My re-feeds don't always. haha I'll get it dialed in.

Fasting doesn't kill metabolism. Calorie restriction does.

Yeah, I know. I keep reminding myself it's water. But it's a stubborn 10. I've only lost 3 of it so far (73 hours).

My aunt swears by the brisket at the Mueller HEB in Austin. Haven't been there to try it yet.

65 hours down 271 hours to go I've lost 3 of the 10 I gained over the weekend. I've done 30 mins of walking the last couple nights with varying elevations. Just trying to lube up my joints and work my way up to an hour of walking a day. Next re-feed I'm not going to go wild. I don't want to keep losing the same pounds.

It's taken me awhile to wrap my head around what you're asking and trying to think of what these people were thinking when they made this claim. CICO is not simple. For example, if you restrict CI, CO does not necessarily remain constant. Think starvation mode. You cut back by 500 calories a day, your body will eventually decrease BMR by 500. The result is a slowed metabolism and no long term weight loss. Conversely, if you increase your CI, and keep insulin low (which is the hormone that tells your body to store excess energy), then your body could increase your BMR to burn off the excess calories. Basically you'd be increasing your metabolism (you can look up this process for fixing a broken metabolism). You could also do this through exercise. There are a lot of things that go into this equation. Maybe that latter example is what they meant. I have no idea. Generally speaking, CICO is correct, and you CAN gain on Keto. Years of calorie reduction diets that killed my metabolism, followed by bouts of overeating, have made me this fat. I have to lose the weight, then fix my metabolism. I will attack this with lifting weights, HIIT, and keeping my insulin low through fasting. When the time comes, I'll eat carbs on workout days, fast on non-workout days.

I changed coils on my friend's Corolla. Aftermarket coils apparently are crap. They were recently replaced again with Toyota coils, and it seems to have fixed the problem.

I gained a bunch of weight the last couple of days. I mean like 10 pounds in 2 days. It's fluid retention and food in my gut. I started a long fast last night at 10pm. Going to start going to they gym this week as well.

Total time. I haven't woken up from hunger yet. I've postponed my bedtime a few times because of extra energy. But luckily once I'm out, I'm out.

You can gain weight on Keto. Look up Keto Gains. You can't just eat fat to your heart's content and not gain weight. The reason people say you don't have to count calories is because in the beginning it doesn't matter. It's more important to get through the first phase of breaking your dependence on carbs. So eat all the fat you want. After that phase, your body should be able to tell you to stop eating before you overeat fat. Fat is very satiating. It's hard to overeat on it without carbs. Basically, you don't have to count calories because your body eventually self-regulates its hunger.

The article states one glass of OJ is too much for the intestines and goes to the liver. They may be talking about an 8oz glass. They don't specify. I would guess the body could handle 4-6 oz.

It's a great experience, as Brisket said. All you can eat. The food just keeps coming without you asking for it. The tab was just $10 even. Crazy.

Interesting. I did a quick search and found this article about fructose and small intestine: https://blog.bulletproof.com/small-intestine-processes-fructose/

I forgot to list Church's in my favorites. I only know the one on Manchaca. I've only been there a couple times in years, but it's delicious. Those biscuits are insane. Chicken is crispy. And they have the best mac n cheese of any chicken place I've tried.