Starting a Fast

I typically intermittent fast daily, I've done it for so long already that it has become a habit and I don't really need to put any cognitive effort or willpower to it. Typically I start eating in afternoon and might have my latest bite around 8-11 pm. So, usually a somewhat 16 hours of non-eating followed with 8 hour eating window.

But the longest I've been without food has probably been only 36 hours when I prepared for an eating challenge, and I've wanted to try a prolonged fast for a while. I reckoned now is a good timing because I don't (yet) have a job so I can do it at home at peace.

I'm planning to do a full 3-day+ water fast, so through Wednesday, Thursday, Friday I will not eat anything and will drink only water (maybe plain tea is ok too?). Having ate my last meal this evening (Tuesday) at 7 pm, it will be close to 96 hours until Saturday noon when I will eat the next time, so technically 4 days.

And just to add a bit of scientific method into this, I will weigh myself now (3 hours after the last meal) and then again in Saturday before eating to see the difference.

Starting weight: 69.9 (kg)

Height: 175-ish (cm)

I actually gained a few kilos on the trip to Krakow, Steemfest, and during the shenanigans elsewhere in Europe, because I weighed about 65 kg sometime before the trip. And it figures, because whenever I was in an eat-everything-you-can place, I really ate everything I could. Also, I ate a lot of chocolate and holidays were also recently. All things considered, it is safe to say that most of the weight gain is fat even though I walked quite a bit – it probably can't result with 5 kg of muscle gain in 50 days. Well, I did one short actual workout, too, but not much else.

^{Yeah, I like that stuff.}

Now, dropping weight isn't really the agenda behind doing this, because I'm still in totally healthy weight. Rather, I'm interested in the mental side of things. Well, it is said that it also cleanses the system (especially the digestive one) – I could imagine there's some truth to that, but won't swear to it, because I'm not an expert. But going to the fast with bit more bulk goes well, because I can be assured I will drop nowhere near unhealthy digits.

I was thinking I might do some video during the fast describing the experience and probably just ramble about stuff. Would you be interested? If so, let me know in the comments, the more people are interested, the more likely I will make some video about it.