It's Saturday, day three, and the whole house is home, hubby included. This was an active rest day, so the focus was my checklist and finishing my 72-hour fast, which was set to end at 6:30 p.m.
Samsung Health gave me a sweet little message: after not sleeping enough the night before, I got enough sleep to feel my best. I logged 6 hours and 59 minutes, so I counted my 7-hour goal as met, with about an hour and 14 minutes of deep sleep and an hour and 13 minutes of REM. Then I did my morning weigh-in.
Next up was my son's soccer practice, with hubby driving. When he's home, I don't drive, and I don't open doors either. We'd planned a Home Depot run but ended up at Walmart, my favorite place, instead. Busy-mom days still count.
Around 2 p.m. I prepped my break-fast meal ahead of time. My plan was to start with bone broth and then move on to real food. My go-to meal after a fast is what I call my tuna and cucumber platter: light, high in protein, full of veggies, fast, easy, and cheap. It's also something I eat during regular diet periods because it's genuinely satisfying.
Here's what goes in it: shredded carrots, cucumbers, chopped eggs to ramp up the protein (a medium to large egg has about 6 grams, so about 12 grams here), and the star of the show, tuna. Each can I used has about 24 grams of protein, and I ate both cans. I make a tuna salad and put it on the cucumbers. I wasn't chasing my 150-gram protein goal today, because there's no way to get there in one break-fast meal, and that's okay.
After my red light treatment, I was so relaxed that I took a catnap. By about 5:30 p.m. I was ready to break my fast. Honestly, I was hungry, so I skipped the bone broth and went straight to my tuna and cucumber platter, plus a protein shake with 42 grams of protein. My hack: liquid egg whites in the shake. It did have a fair amount of calories from the milk and protein powder, so I count it as more of a meal shake.
At 8 p.m. I was only at 6,790 steps, so I went down to the basement treadmill for an easy 35-minute stroll and finished at 10,458 steps. Then came nighttime skincare and bed. Starting day four, I'm tracking 150 grams of protein and 2 liters of water a day, plus a super greens drink and green tea. This is my personal experience, not medical advice, so please talk to your doctor before trying an extended fast. Glow hard. GRIT harder.