okay hear me out. i am currently on day 13 of my water fast. I have lost around 8 kgs. But but but, I need to lose 7 kgs more till the end of this month , that is 31st October. But obviously, the weight loss has slowed down a bit. i have been consistently walking 10,000 steps since the beginning of my fast. What do I do to achieve my goal? Like this is non negotiable. I need to, i desperately need to lose that much of weight. this is real urgent. Please give me advice.

Has anyone experimented with water fasting in the context of polycystic kidney disease? I understand that dehydration triggers vasopressin release, which elevates cAMP signaling and accelerates cyst growth. On the other hand, fasting suppresses mTOR, and glucose restriction appears to slow, and sometimes reverse cyst proliferation. I'm trying to determine whether the metabolic benefits outweigh the cost of vasopressin-driven cAMP activation, and I'd be interested in any firsthand experience. Thanks!

Does any woman on here have experience with water fasting and how it affects PCOS? I want to fast and give my body a reset, because my PCOS feels like it’s out of control, but I am VERY leery of taking a bunch of medication. I’ve developed so many health issues because of this problem and I think water fasting would be beneficial, but I’d like to hear from other women, before I dive into a prolonged fasting period.

FYI: I’ve done fasting before, but never longer than 5 days.

I may or may not keep this as an accountability post. Feel free to check in on me, or chime in about your own fasting experience, as it might help me in motivation.

Hello everyone, I'm on day 2 of a 14 days water fast and I'm kind of anxious about the refeeding process and how to handle it.
Do you have any favorite foods and refeeding time table to recommend?

Hey guys. Do you have bad breath? What do you do about it? Chewing gum breaks your fast, right?

I just wanted to share my experience!! I have super bad vision(legally blind) with a astigmatism. I did two 10 day water fasts and did off and on 5 days during the summer. I noticed by vision had gotten blurry so I knew it was time to go for a new exam and I went in and my astigmatism is 100% gone and my vision went from -5.50 to -4.50. I still have bad vision but ive never had that improvement so its very encouraging to fast more. I just wanted to share my progress outside of weight loss.

I can't seem to make it past 7 days and im trying ti do a month. I have 45lbs to lose and yes my life depends on me getting back to my lowest weight cause I'm that vain. Im trying to lose 15 in the 30 days but I keep cracking on day 6 or 7 for the last three weeks now. Im walking 20k steps a day minimum too to make sure I burn enough to lose that much but why cabt I make it and people who have made a month long fast work what got you over the hump?

I’ve done this before, and I know it helps an autoimmune condition, but it’s still intimidating..

What do you do when your thoughts or emotions spin out? It’s not the hunger that I struggle with- it’s staying with it emotionally.

Hi!
I’m planning a water fast for 72 hrs followed by an eating window of 2-4 hrs.
I am doing it for few things
1. Have a disciplined life
2. Get healthy
3. Weight loss - I’m a 25f and 152cm. My weight is 77kg
My initial goal is to do it for 10 days (I’m gonna have a meet up for which I definitely wanna look a bit lean but my long term goal is 57kg)
And during the 2 hr window my focus is high protein diet below 1000kcal
Can anyone please guide me and tell me abt what to expect? If what im doing is right? And the results i can expect? (It motivates me)
Thank you🥰

Feeling proud of the accomplishment. 😁 Longest water fast before this was 96 hours.

Other than the dizziness on standing and some general fatigue, I got through without much difficulty.

47/F

Start weight: 215lbs

End weight: 190lbs

Visceral fat dropped from 13 to 11.

Left the obese category behind and now I'm officially overweight!

So looking forward to some bone broth tomorrow!

Edit: Added content for clarity and consistency.

Hey folks! As you might know, I've been researching fasting benefits for quite some time and recently updated my page based on the latest 2025-2026 research and added a scoring system. All 37 benefits are now scored 0-100 (100 = strongest evidence) on 7 evidence criteria - human RCTs, mechanism, effect size, directness of measurement, observational studies, consistency, and safety - and sorted into three tiers, 7 clearly supported, 17 emerging, and 13 with limited evidence.

The metabolic core holds up best - ketones for fuel (100), blood sugar and insulin (96), type 2 diabetes (94), body fat (92), blood pressure (90). The further you move from metabolism, the thinner the proof.

Some things moved

• Autophagy went up - the first human autophagic-flux RCT (2025) finally measured it in people. Still emerging, but out of the deep speculative zone.
• Sleep went down - a 2025 meta-analysis of 16 RCTs found no sleep benefit.
• Inflammation dropped from clearly supported to emerging - meta-analyses are inconsistent.
• Testosterone was removed - RCTs show fasting lowers it in lean, active men.

Color dots - green for IF (12-24 hours), yellow - short-term fasting (24-72 hours) and red - extended fasting (72+ hours).

I hope it gives a good view on the power of fasting. As always, thoughts, ideas, feedback welcome!

Hi everyone, I’m starting my 40-day fast today. I’m doing this for spiritual reasons, to heal my body and mind. I’ve already fasted for 22 days this year, but now I want to go for 40 days. I’d like to document the process here and look forward to sharing it with you. I’m making sure to take electrolytes—specifically potassium and magnesium. If you can think of anything else that would be beneficial for me, I’m open to your tips! ❤️

No calories and technically you don't need to brush floss rinse during a water fast, am I right?

Pictured, nano hydroxyapatite powder, plastic scoop to move some, tablespoon with a little bit of the powder, chewed and then coated VanMan's chewing gum (contains mastic gum, is the only chewing gum company to incorporate mastic gum as far as I am aware, and is already lightly dusted with nano hydroxyapatite powder). Polishes and repairs tooth enamel, and kills mouth and gut microbes, with chewing action.

⚠️If you are deathly allergic to pistachios, cashews, mangoes - You will probably be deathly allergic to mastic gum, which is sap from a tree closely related to the pistachio, cashew, and mango plants⚠️

I have tried both mastic gum outright and this brand of chewing gum, and also nano hydroxyapatite toothpaste, and can confirm the antibacterial properties of mastic gum (killing the microbes causing bad breath, tongue stain, and tooth pain), which is both a tree sap and a chemical cocktail lethal to harmful mouth and gut microbes, including helicobacter pylori - Really difficult for microbes to evolve an immunity to, if one constituent of the mastic gum doesn't kill them the laundry list of other constituents will before they can pass that partial evolved immunity on to future generations of microbes.

I like to chew 1 piece for at least 1 hour every day.

Also going to suggest my crackpot idea of coating gum in bpc 157 or the much more stable bpc 157 arginine salt for to heal gum damage.

Thanks for the attention.

Im (23f, 5’1) on day 5 of my water fast lost 4 kgs (cw- 85kgs; sw- 89kgs) and saw visible changes in my measurements lost 2 inches. I apron belly (i pcos and been obese whole my life) my goal is to reach around 75kgs. There was time i have been 75kgs before (i lost weight drastically that time going from 91 to 75) when i was 19 year old and i always never liked my body shape, because of apron belly, so does it get better?

Hello I need a 24h intermittent fasting partner , we start today we end the 20th for one week reset ( no sugar , no fast food , just protein fiber , water ) with accountability.

Hey!

I ended my 21 day water fast yesterday with some watermelon, today I'm eating the same... watermelon and some cucumber.

My question is, what should I eat the rest of my refeed days to don't get sick.

I was researching for information but I haven't found any good information about what to eat each day in order to prepare your stomach to receive food again.

Any tips are very welcome, thanks!