Posted on 06/19/2015 6:55:59 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
That's not correct English, even in England.
I have done 5 day fasts in the past. Only water. After the hunger pangs went I felt great.
I’m going to start one next week. Mañana!;-)
the other thing I experienced was a loss of desire to eat so much so often. My craving is just a lot less - that certainly helps. Especially, with less productive exercise at my age.
Just ran across this. My mom-in-law was big on short term fasts, back in the ‘80’s. Guess she was ahead of the health curve.
I have only lost 3 pounds but I already feel so much better. And my head and thinking are so much clearer. I had noticed my thinking had become slightly foggy (the way I use to feel with a very tiny hangover). That's gone and it's only been about 3 days.
As an aside, I always eat keto, but I had been cheating around the edges (mostly with keto-friendly tortilla wraps for "sandwiches" and a few other putatively keto-friendly products).
Yesterday on Impulsive Buy, I read about Zero Net Carbs tortillas: 7g of carbs. I didn’t read its ingredients.
Another downside of eating them is that you eat more. That is one of the features of higher-carb foods. They don't kill the cravings for "more."
Labels on low net carb tortilla wraps show exactly that...low net carbs. But I wonder if they aren't fudging the numbers a little too much by overestimating and overstating the fiber tally.
I don’t know how to do ketosis. It is not low carbs?
To get in ketosis you usually want to limit your carbs to somewhere in the 25 to 50 grams a day range, but I'm not sure the "net carb" theory always works to keep you there.
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