Fasting for a few days with only a handful of almonds, has anyone tried this or something similar?

Before you do something insane like this try doing a 12 hour fast every day. Eat all of your calories within a 12 hour window. If your last meal is at 7pm don't eat again until at least 7am, last meal at 9pm, don't eat again until 9am, etc. Much safer and more sustainable way of fasting.

The almond guy wrote:

leraladira wrote:

So did you usually eat a handful of almonds and black coffee in the morning, and then go for a run, and then run again in the evening? How did this schedule typically look?

I had coffee twice a day (before each run) I would make the almonds last the day .I didn't try to fill up on water as is usually recommended.

Coffee is said to aid fat burning and I never felt like I had low energy.

When I started eating again I ate less and savored it more.

Binging is fine and natural as long as it's not a day in day out type of thing.

When you said you made the almonds last the day, do you mean you ate a handful of almonds slowly over the course of a day?

leraladira wrote:

When you said you made the almonds last the day, do you mean you ate a handful of almonds slowly over the course of a day?

Please don't listen to these people suggesting weird fasts/diets. Any calory-intake far less than you are supposed to eat to compensate for what you burn is potentially harmful. Especially if you continue it for a few days. Just focus on eating a little bit less than you burn. That's all. Take the stairs, walk a few miles a day. Run. Increase the burn and eat slightly less. Vegetables, nuts.

Please.

pop_pop!_v2.1.1 wrote:

leraladira wrote:

I am REALLY shy and have a hard time talking about this at all - the only place I've ever talked about it is online (cant bring myself to tell someone in person).

Are there any good self help books? I've tried a few to eat more mindfully etc. which works sometimes but then I cave for whatever reason (visiting my parents is often a trigger to eat a lot).

I was more going to use fasting to help me be more mindful and transition to more mindful eating.

This is bare-knuckling it.

Find a mental health professional in your area and talk about it person-to-person. No shame in it.

Adding to this, if you're in college, you probably have someone on campus who you can see for free. It's not a big deal. I'm terrible at asking for help, but I went a few times following a breakup because I couldn't afford to let it keep me down. Now if I'm sad or anxious for more than a couple of days, I don't hesitate to go and talk through it.

leraladira wrote:

The almond guy wrote:

I had coffee twice a day (before each run) I would make the almonds last the day .I didn't try to fill up on water as is usually recommended.

Coffee is said to aid fat burning and I never felt like I had low energy.

When I started eating again I ate less and savored it more.

Binging is fine and natural as long as it's not a day in day out type of thing.

When you said you made the almonds last the day, do you mean you ate a handful of almonds slowly over the course of a day?

Yes.

This thread sure attracted all the sensitive types that have a disorder name for every little thing that might be feeling a bit off.

I see. Sorry for all the questions, but if it was only a handful of almonds, did you only eat 1-2 at a time every few hours? I assumed you ate them all at once at the beginning of the day or the end.

Will this work with peanuts? They are a bit cheaper. Or should I just use the almond method. Didn't think it would be this difficult. No, I will use walnuts.

Jordan HR wrote:

Will this work with peanuts? They are a bit cheaper. Or should I just use the almond method. Didn't think it would be this difficult. No, I will use walnuts.

There's nothing magical about almonds. You're just eating a small amount of a low-carb food.

Also, you are literally eating a handful of nuts per day. Even if you buy fancy nuts, it's still a super cheap diet.

Looking at intermittent fasting might be worthwhile, but this 'protocol' is idiotic and not with as much discussion. It's not thought-out at all, so it's pointless to ask the person who originally posted it how they went about it. They could have just as easily arbitrarily picked brazil nuts.

Mr E wrote:

Jordan HR wrote:

Will this work with peanuts? They are a bit cheaper. Or should I just use the almond method. Didn't think it would be this difficult. No, I will use walnuts.

There's nothing magical about almonds. You're just eating a small amount of a low-carb food.

Also, you are literally eating a handful of nuts per day. Even if you buy fancy nuts, it's still a super cheap diet.

Looking at intermittent fasting might be worthwhile, but this 'protocol' is idiotic and not with as much discussion. It's not thought-out at all, so it's pointless to ask the person who originally posted it how they went about it. They could have just as easily arbitrarily picked brazil nuts.

Unless you have tried it and have a valid opinion to offer it's probably better to just listen up and keep your nut hole shut.

I see you're a spokesman for the mighty almond-lobby?

This is an excellent thread. I have actually done experiments on energy in modern day foods and the joules of calories per digested kg that comes with it. Almonds are right up there with the best. But I have to warn are low on certain vitamins and nutrients the body needs.

Most doctors will reject these so called diets, but we here have been working on a type of hibernation treatment, where the food ingested is so low and kept in a warm room with minimal movement for 3 out of 7 days, living a normal life for the other 4 days. We have been doing this now for about 25 years and one of our patients is 93 but in her 4 days acts much more like a lady in her 50's!

She was in good shape when she came to us, but still you can see the excellent results in living this way, as a colleague quipped it is the way his teenage son lives anyway, and he looks very young!

Good effort, not bad trolling but not the best effort, try again!

It's me wrote:

It was me who posted that fast. I also drank black coffee.

I did not gain weight after or any of those horror stories Tx is saying.

I had the best year of my life after that demolishing stagnant PRs that were about 5 years old.

+1. There have been a lot of threads about this. I've been doing the 16/8 fast for a couple of months now. I feel great, my weight is down, and I don't get the insulin dips and spikes I used to get. I do my run 14 hours in and actually feel better than I did when I ran after a three hour fast.

I'm thinking about trying this out. The first guy who decided to do this (and anyone else), how much were you running each day?

bump

2rieowfd wrote:

I'm thinking about trying this out. The first guy who decided to do this (and anyone else), how much were you running each day?

bump. First guy, you still here?