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Wellness Wednesday for October 9, 2024

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

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I've done proper water fasts twice now. I wouldn't recommend doing anything less than 5 days because the switching cost from glucose to full ketose is the hardest part.

The last one was 10 in total but only 7 of those was water only. The last three days I've supplemented with broth.

For me I'm unable to participate in activities that require physical energy while I'm in the mode but mental energy is high throughout.

You can greatly accelerate the process of burning up your glucose with a workout or even a long walk. I like a roughly three hour hike with moderate elevation gain.

Have you only consumed water or have you supplemented with anything and/or allowed yourself things like tea/coffee?

Only water. I usually drink mate tea once per day but when doing those fasts, I also quit that aspect of my life.

I've read that one shouldn't do unsupervised fasts for more than 7-10 days, so that's why I did the last one with 7 days only water and days of broth as supplementation.