Wednesday 15 April 2020

Run after 44 hours fasting

So I am on Wednesday of week 2 of fasting. This morning I woke up and felt like going for a run. As a running coach and as someone with an interest in science etc. I have adopted what I feel is the best training method for health and fitness, although sometimes performance may suffer. All this means is that I generally train at a slow pace, this is meant to encourage fat burning and not trigger too much stress in the body. This type of training is supposed to reduce the risk or injury or burnout, improve the aerobic energy systems and basically allow for consistency which in the long run produces better results. 


I am current at around 44 or so hours or fasting and this is the first time I have been out for a run with this level of fasting. Honestly I felt pretty good and no different to how I normally feel when I am out for a run. I lasted around 50 minutes and stopped when I was feeling good rather than pushing too far. 



The second screenshot fro my phone shows that I lost around 1.6lbs yesterday, slightly disappointed with this as most will be water weight but at the same time I feel good. Given I am fasting and using feeding windows at the moment I think the top graphic basically shows fasting all the time. 

At the moment I am hoping to get to around a 72 hour fast and then have a 4 hour feeding window on the next 2 days to ensure that I get sufficient nutrition and don't get too addicted to fasting. As someone who likely has Aspergers I have a tendency to get addicted and obsessed over things. Given I have started this blog it is clear that Keto Fasting is clearly one of those things at the moment.  

Overall the best thing is that I am feeling good and don't feel the need to eat. 

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