I am now already five days past my previous longest fast of twelve days, and at the moment I can’t see any reason that I won’t be able to complete the remaining eleven days. I have said previously that weight loss was not my main reason for this fast, but I am totally surprised at the amount of weight I have lost so far, 2st 2lbs in seventeen days, and that amount of weight you really feel the difference. The reason for fasting was to try and see if autophagy would repair the nerve damage and hip problems in my left leg. When I started this fast I could only lift my leg a couple of inches, now I can lift it about twelve inches and relatively pain free, and that’s a first for around three years. So what else has happened, well my skin has improved and my blood pressure is now quite stable at 120/80 and considering where it used to be is great. It’s not all been plain sailing though, day’s 13, 14, and 15 I didn’t feel that good, having headaches and feeling rather lethargic, but it turned out I just needed to increase my water intake, and I am now feeling pretty good. I have been doing a half hour upper body workout every other day, but I am now increasing that to every day and possibly increasing it to forty-five minutes. For the next entry I shall be giving some thought to re-feeding as that time will be getting close, until then I wish you all the very best of health.

When I started this fast I said I would give weekly reports of my progress, well I am seven days in and so here goes. Anybody interested in weight loss I can report that this morning when I weighed myself I was already down by 11lbs, so basically that is in six days. If I was to weigh myself tonight I would expect to have lost at least another 1lb, so I can’t think of any other way to lose this amount of weight quicker, although some of this will be water weight but if I was to stop now I would expect to have permanently lost around 9lbs.

Although weight loss is important it was not my primary reason for fasting, I am hoping to reverse some nerve damage and joint pain in my left leg and right shoulder. The reduction in weight at the end of this fast will obviously help the situation with my leg, but it is the state of autophagy that I am hoping will start to repair the damage. For the last year walking has become very painful and I have had to use two walking sticks to reduce the load on my left leg, but yesterday the pain level in my leg had reduced, and today I had to go to my local post box, which is only about two hundred yards, it wasn’t a problem, but I managed to walk back using just one stick. Something is going on although you can’t feel it you start noticing changes in movement and pain levels.

Ketosis, it took until the second day for me to properly get into a state of ketosis, which did surprise me a little considering my LCHF diet, but now it seems to be holding steady at around 4mmol/L. If I was able to exercise more like fast walking it would probably be a little lower at 3mmol/L but I am only doing some upper body weight training. For me being in ketosis is important as it helps in the regeneration of damaged nervous systems, and I am hoping that with ketosis and autophagy I will be able to walk more easily by the end of the month. Ketones are a cleaner fuel source than sugar as they produce a lot less free radicals, also brain cells function much better on ketones than they do on sugar. (I might even be a bit smarter by the end of the month) Some of the new research studies are showing that burning ketones as fuel can help with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, MS and Epilepsy better than some of the conventional drugs in use at present.

That just about covers my first seven days, by the time I do my next post I will have moved into unknown territory as I have never been passed twelve days before, but at the moment I can’t see any problems. Until next time I wish you all the very best of health.