So keytones were still up this morning. Last food was 5pm ish last night. Time to squeeze a monk fast in before the weekend. This will be my fourth monk fast. If you time it so you sleep off the last few hours it’s easy enough, particularly coming off a year or so of 16:8 intermittent fasting. Not everyday but frequently enough to have built some mental resolve around established eating habits and to have had at least a couple of days where I thought I could carry on fasting for a longer period.

The last couple of times I came off a monk fast I felt awesome. Great energy levels and mental clarity but I timed them so I came off the fast on the Friday and went back to normal food instead of keto on the Saturday. I also messed up the breaking of the fast by eating too much too quick. I expect the benefits dwindle more rapidly in these scenarios so hopefully allowing more time to adjust back into the swing of things and sticking with the keto should render longer lasting benefits.

At the end of the day, I’m aiming to get some autophagy on the go. I need to research how you can tell your in the zone. The Zero app is ok for tracking fasting times but the meal input is not what it could be and this appears to influence how you advance through the various stages. You’re expected to log when you eat which is a pain in the arse. I’d rather enter mine as and when I remember and have time. As a result the app gives a very rough idea of when you might be in autophagy if you forget or not logging your food intake.

No significant weight loss yet either. A couple of kilos but I can lose that in one sitting if you know what I mean, lol.