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Excellent job in regaining control of your weight. It's nice to hear these stories.

I think it's important to note what exercise you were doing. In particular there is a significant difference in dietary requirements between a low-intensity and high-intensity workouts. The high-intensity kind, generally involving weights, do require you to eat following the workout. IF you do not, you may be promoting muscle loss. If you're doing low-intensity, like jogging, then burning fat alone should be enough*.

*I put a star there, since when you start out, your body won't be well adapted and doing anything during ketosis can feel challenging.

Also, be sure to drink a lot. Going into ketosis appears to use more water than burning carbs (not just the water lost that was stored with the glycogen). IF you fast long-enough, or find yourself getting headaches or muscle cramps, you'll likely need some electrolytes (salts) as well.

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Eric Bishard • Edited

Yes, I will say that I never do weightlifting without eating protein first, my workouts that I do on my fasting regimen are mostly running on a treadmill, elliptical machine and small weights high repetition and many sets.

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Eric Bishard • Edited

Also, I would like to post some before and after pictures. Let me see what I can find. When I started my fast I worked at Tesla and I have some images of me presenting at a meetup vs my latest pictures. I think If I can find those I will be able to show the results.

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I will try to find better images! believe it or not, there is a 30 lb difference in those to images, at the lest a 25 lb difference.

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Upkar Lidder

Thanks for sharing Eric. I am a developer advocate as well. And my weight has started to affect my confidence when I am in front of an audience. I recently started IF and I am hoping to see positive changes as you did ! Well done and good luck with everything.

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Eric Bishard

Hit me up on a direct message if you want to hop on Slack or Skype anytime. Would love to share or learn what you are doing each day!