Oddly, when I tried fasting for one day at a time, over about 3 weeks , the 7 days seemed easy.

I,m thinking a couple things.

Perhaps a succesful fast begets another fast and another.

I keep going back to this nugget of info: protein level is the driver of the regenerative process. Perhaps why frank fasting also works.

Honestly, I ate salads from the garden and totally skipped the bother of cooking meat. LAZY and too hot in the kitchen. This happened two times. SND both times the scale moved DOWN.

That it happened once is a coincidence. TWICE has me thinking and looking for why?

Only working theory: meat adds fat calories.

Sorry, I digress. Added as it might fit in the fast mimicking diet somehow.