Twice a week fasting; my experience with carbs

For the last couple of weeks, I have been fasting twice a week whereas I used to fast just once a week.  So far, so good.  I wanted to see how I would feel fasting twice a week and to see if I would lose some more weight.  I have felt pretty good fasting; my weight was 156 pounds this morning which is about 4 pounds less than what I weighed at the end of August.

I noticed that I have had some big calorie days since starting to fast twice a week and that my total calories vary greatly from day to day.  I had 4800 calories on September 13 which was the day after a fasting day and a day in which my last meal was a carb-load meal; I started eating ice cream and I couldn’t stop, so I realized once again that once I start having sweet carbs, my craving for carbohydrates becomes uncontrollable.  I don’t mind eating a little ice cream, but I may avoid it completely because I have a history of eating lots of sweets once I have a few bites of sweets.

I like the fact that total calories vary significantly day by day.  The body learns to adapt to not having food and it learns to adapt to assimilate nutrients when it has food.  When I have lots of carbs (and calories) on the 2 days in which I have a carb-load meal, my thyroid has a chance to reset itself so that my metabolism doesn’t slow down and go into ”starvation mode”

Here’s a link to a “pdf” document from my FitDay program that shows my total calories for the last 2 weeks:  fitday-food-calories