The FAST experiment - Fast 1

Jody Slaney
Dec 15, 2016
3 min read

The day of the Fast:

At 6pm on 13/12/2016 i ate my last meal... for 24 hours at least. It felt like a lifetime away though!

I stuck with a light chicken noodle soup because i didn't want to each something large that would expand my stomach too much. Personally i have noticed that large meals make me hungrier. I had no plans to work out during my first fast because i didn't know what my body would feel like without consuming food so i chose to be a little conservative here.

After work i wasn't too hungry and even though i would normally eat before bed i didn't feel too annoyed at having to skip a meal.

For breakfast the day after i would normally have nothing or just a slice of toast. Since i didn't eat the night before i felt a little hungry so i had a glass of water and after a few minutes i forgot that i hadn't eaten.

I was fairly busy at work and the day seemed to pass fast. Around 1pm i started to get the nagging feeling of hunger again but as before, a glass of water and a few minutes resolved this issue.

An hour of so after this i just could NOT stop thinking about food. I had already planned for this, in my bag hidden away i had stashed 2 small satsumas. (This was probably a bad idea)

I ate one slowly, making sure to savour each piece with a glass of water. I was fairly shocked to find i was no longer starving to death after this tiny piece of food.

During my lunch break at work i decided to go grocery shopping. 100% this is not something i would recommend. It was almost torture not to fill my basket with goodies and i barely escaped unscathed.

At 7pm i ate a small meal that i had prepped at home. I was a small veg curry (Around 300 cals) with around 50g of brown rice. I had planned on eating at around 6 but yay for me... i guess cheating with the satsuma made me feel like i should push myself a little.

After work i did go to the gym and i found i was crazy full of energy. I had been focused all day at work except for the hour leading up to the satsuma incident. Im sure i did almost ten times more work than i normally would have done.

I wasn't tired or drained during my heavy leg day workout. I would actually class this as one of the top 5 workouts of my entire life. It was that good! Afterwards i had my post workout whey shake and drove home for sleepy time.

The day after:

I felt pretty great this morning. I didn't eat before heading to work as i wasn't hungry.

No work today so my and a friend went to check out a new gym. I was still bounding with energy and had another awesome workout mainly focusing on heavy deadlifts and then working on our shoulders.

My thoughts:

It would seem that most of the time when i think im hungry, im simply thirsty. I have clearly forgotten how to listen to what my body actually wants.
Lack of food did not affect my energy and infact, on my next Fast day i will be adding on a volume gym session.
I dont eat enough fruit/veg.
The feeling of hunger does not increase over time and seems to come in waves which do pass.
Skipping food for the day made my focus intensely on other things such as work and gym.
Throughout the day i consumed around 4 pints of water.