I'd be super careful with total fasting.
People do it, and it can be viable, but some also have various issues and
worst case you can die - possibly from indirect effects.
ie despite the energy levels you may experience a side effect which causes
problems in managing real world situations.

Some while ago (decades?) a pilot here died and took a small plane load of
passengers with him. It was found that he had been fasting for 7 days (from
memory) and had a very small amount of food in his stomach. I do not recall
now how it happened overall but the impression given was that his fasting
was a direct contributor to what happened.


          Russell

On 20 October 2017 at 02:26, Van Horn, David <
david.vanhorn@backcountryaccess.com> wrote:

> Day 5 of fasting.
>
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> I am now totally fasting.  Water and electrolytes, selected for no sugar
> or salt.
> Today I hit 1/3 of my goal, -33# in 19 days..  Sugars are running in the
> mid 70's which is about 3x less than they were, and I am no no meds for
> that.
> BP varies, but averages dead normal.
> Ketones are slightly elevated, as expected.
> I have so much energy I'm bouncing off the walls.
> The occasional hungry feeling which passes in minutes.
>
> In the potato phase, I was following Ray's plan as described by Penn, all
> you can eat, which for me worked out to one or two, once a day.
>
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