Unexpectedly, this week was pretty tough, and that's after starting so well. As I stated in my last post, my schedule is feeding on Thursday and Sunday, which means a 3-day fast, followed by a 2-day fast. This week's 3-day fast was a breeze, I felt like I could've gone longer, but something about the following 2-day fast was tougher than I've felt since the first week. I ended up breaking my fast early evening yesterday with some canned sardines in hot sauce.

To make matters worse, i only weighed in down at 235.9, only down 2lbs from last week! I'm expecting a plateau, but I wasn't expecting one this early, I haven't even undone the damage of the past 2 years yet. At least the plateau could've waited until I was 190 again.

But we continue forward.

I'm not sure what happened yesterday, I started to feel.. bad, and not in a way electrolytes could fix. Perhaps it was some kind of nutritional deficiency that caught up to me? I'm not quite sure.

The other theory I had, is maybe it has something to do with combining keto, and fasting together. Sundays are breakfast diner days, and I order a side of corned beef hash instead of home fries, to reduce the number of carbs. But hash still contains potatoes, just less than home fries. Thursdays on the other hand, my keto regimen tends to be a lot more strictly followed. If even that little bit of carbs are doing.. something.. then that would explain why the longer fast ends up going a lot smoother, and then it catches up to me by the next 2-day fast.

So starting next week, I will eat something with carbs on Thursday, not too high, but not too low.. maybe a single piece of fruit or bread or something.

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Hello, for me, today marks the end of week 3 on my weight loss journey. For you, this is my first blog post talking about it. I've been on a (granted extreme) weight loss journey since the very end of March.

I'm trying to lose weight by doing what's called a “rolling fast,” which means I have a routine fasting schedule, punctuated by feeding days. My schedule is a 3 day fast from Monday to Wednesday, with feeding on Thursday, followed by another fast between Friday and Saturday, ending with a second feeding day on Sunday. Typically a “rolling fast” means rolling fasts with a large “OMAD” (one meal a day) between fasts, but my schedule treats the whole feeding day as safe to eat. On feeding day I eat a low carb diet, to try and stay in ketosis, and to make returning to fasting easier. So far it's gone well.

This morning I weighed myself at 237.4, I've been at sub-240 for most of this week, actually, down 10lbs from two weeks ago. I only started weighing myself two weeks ago, so I don't know what weight I started at, but I'm going to guess 250-255 since I was already able to fit into some old pants that were getting tight on me before I started.

I hope that covers it for introductions, I don't want to spend too much time talking about everything in a single post. Instead I'll provide information with a slow drip weekly, that way writing these posts becomes manageable. Today I want to talk about what I've learned and experienced this week.

This week I've learned the importance of keeping your electrolytes up, especially good old fashioned sodium. Last night in particular, I was struck with a wave of lightheadedness and low blood pressure, remedied with a glass of salt water.

I've actually tried to keep up with electrolytes, supplementing with lite-salt (50% potassium chloride) and a drop of lemon juice in water. But this week taught me that I need to balance harder towards sodium to prevent issues. Drinking salty water is the worst part of fasting, but seemingly one of the most important to keep it going consistently. I'm going to start introducing a glass of pure salt water on each fasting day now, and hopefully have a more stable road ahead of me.

In other news, this week I've notably lost some circumference around my waist, because now I'm fitting into even more old clothing than last week. Including a pair of pants that I struggled to button up a week ago, but now fit comfortably.

Anyway, I guess that's it, see you next week, and hopefully another 5-10 lbs later.

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