Yes normal omnivore diet, not much junk food but yes rice and sourdough bread as carbs, lots of beans, meat at least a couple times a week, vegetables and fruit. Coffee. Alcohol about once a week.
I tried caffeine, electrolytes, my body just wasn’t having it. Would wake up with a migraine if I skipped both lunch & supper. I can do 24 hours easier, very late lunch, skip supper, next day start with supper, but the 36 hours or more did something that shorter fasts don’t (besides the headaches) my LDL cholesterol dropped sharply.
This was an experiment for me because most of the reports I read on fasting benefits related to weight loss, there wasn’t a lot on normal weight people fasting and maintaining weight, so I did that to see if it really did anything, and it did.
By choice? 36 hours weekly for a year. It did improve my health without dropping my weight but unfortunately was also a guaranteed migraine each time.
By need? Couple of days when we were poor. But way more usually there was at least something to eat each day.
36 hours every week for a year? That’s intense
Were you eating a normal omnivore carbohydrate-based diet at the time? Did salt or electrolytes help with the headache?
Yes normal omnivore diet, not much junk food but yes rice and sourdough bread as carbs, lots of beans, meat at least a couple times a week, vegetables and fruit. Coffee. Alcohol about once a week.
I tried caffeine, electrolytes, my body just wasn’t having it. Would wake up with a migraine if I skipped both lunch & supper. I can do 24 hours easier, very late lunch, skip supper, next day start with supper, but the 36 hours or more did something that shorter fasts don’t (besides the headaches) my LDL cholesterol dropped sharply.
This was an experiment for me because most of the reports I read on fasting benefits related to weight loss, there wasn’t a lot on normal weight people fasting and maintaining weight, so I did that to see if it really did anything, and it did.