This blog/comment is in response to a nurse who was deeply concerned of the length of hours that some of the members of our Fastletics Fitness Community group were partaking in.
This was my response:

To be honest when I first started experimenting with Fasting I was VERY CONCERNED about it. I took it very slow and easy on my own body so I would know exactly what factors were affecting me and my body. I wanted to know if I experienced fatigue or energy highs if it was from the fasting or maybe from my physical activity or from my food the previous day. I slowly pushed my breakfast forward an hour everyday, then brought my last meal back an hour everyday. It took me about 2 weeks until I was into a 16/8 eating window.

As time went on, I was experimenting with fasting for 17-24hrs on a daily basis and I wanted to push it. I wanted to see what my body/the human body could handle in terms of withholding from food. If Ghandi could fast for 14-21 days then could it really negatively affect the human body for doing shorter fasts? So I pushed it to 40hrs and documented the whole Journey on my YouTube Channel! I take you through different intervals to show you how my energy levels change and fluctuate and to be honest, even at a low body fat percentage (I hover around 10-12% year round) I had no 'negative' results. I actually felt AMAZING and a year later pushed it to 48 hrs!

At Fastletics we want each individual to leave with the skills and knowledge that will excel them along their own Journey in life. For some people they may have a couple hundred pounds to lose while some are just trying to reach their goal bodyweight and others are trying to increase muscle growth while maintaining their weight.

These long fasts aren't meant to be a long term fat loss solution. It's a way to shatter and break the chains that many of us in this society have built around food. That food is important and necessary on a daily basis when it's really only a basic animal instinct that we have to conquer within our lives. Some people have this chain built around sex or power or greed or a substance, some have it built around food.

These Long Fasts are a challenge to your will power. To your body and your mind to push yourself beyond your basic instinct to eat.

Long fasts will help those who are overweight break those chains faster because it adjusts their bodies to experience ketosis FIRST before overwhelming their mind with information on nutrition and portion sizes and workouts and eating intervals. Once fasting is adapted and the body becomes a fat burning machine by regularly switching into a state of ketosis via carb depletion we introduce the concepts and knowledge to take advantage of your own lifestyle to optimize your hormone production through nutrition, exercise, fasting and other factors like sauna use!