“The best of all medicines is resting and fasting” ~ Benjamin Franklin

I am going to fast for the next 3 days.  This will be a little different than the fasts that I have done before – my longest water only fast was 24 days – for this fast I will be exercising and taking vitamins and consuming protein – only protein.  I am not going to be eating any carbohydrates.  I am not going to be eating any fats – with the exception of the fats that I am going to supplement thru flax seed oil and fish oil.  I am only going to be consuming protein.  How much protein?  Well, for this short experiment, I am going to consume approximately 180 grams of protein per day.  This works out to about 1 gram of protein for each pound of what I would like my lean body mass to be.

So, why am I doing this?  I am doing this because I am ready for the next step in returning to my ideal weight.  I’ve made great progress this year.  I am wearing clothes smaller in size than I have been able to wear in nearly 7 years.  Still, I have a long way to go and I am anxious to get there.

So, why a protein fast?  I want to see how well I feel while protein fasting and I also want to see how it affects my set-point.  I think that water fasting has a natural tendency to raise my set-point…the natural weight that my body tries to maintain.  I want to see if exercise and protein fasting will achieve a similar result in quick weight loss without raising my set-point.

I have water fasted before and experienced great results.  Water fasting is a wonderful way to heal yourself from serious injury.  Water fasting is however very challenging mentally and ultimately, the weight that you lose comes back.  I’m going to see how protein fasting works instead…just for three days!  Stay tuned and see what happens.  I will be blogging and tweeting about this daily.

Till next time…Jack

“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon”. ~Doug Larson