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WELCOMETO MY 3 DAY WATER FAST RESULTS VIDEO! We are diving into inches lost, how my blood sugar stabilized after the fast and go over several before and after pictures. I also discuss the importance of using fasting to help kickstart your way into that metabolic switch, autophagy and overall healing. Furthermore, there is a physique update where you can see where I started 2024 at and where I am currently at on my journey. I am slowly BUT SURELY chipping away at the September - December weight gain!
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Welcome to my three-day water fast results video. I'm gonna go through the
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weights I've lost, the inches I've lost, and share with you before and after pictures of this fast. So I've been fasting quite a bit lately because my
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body has been inflamed. Fasting is good for helping to reset our mitochondria
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because with this environment that we're living in, with all the toxicity, our
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mitochondria is getting damaged by the fructose, the excess sugar, the glucose
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spikes, and all of that. I was dealing with chronic fatigue very severely in
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December and I was dealing with a lot of issues with my female cycle, been dealing
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with fibroids, cysts, and ever since I started doing extended fasting again
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this is my second extended water fast. Earlier on in the year I did a 48-hour
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fast and with this fast it went 70 hours. Things are starting to normalize itself
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So let's jump into the details of this fast. But before we get started, if you're
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new here, welcome. My name is DeLaJoy and I've been on a very, very lengthy weight
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loss journey. My weight loss journey has been plagued with a lot of health issues
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dealt with it through chronic pain. I've lost weight in a state that normally
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people won't usually lose weight in, you know, being injured and sick and all of
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that, but I knew I had to do something in this situation. I turned to food for
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comfort. I struggled with binge eating disorder and I probably most likely had
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sugar addiction due to the foods I was eating, and it's all been a trauma
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response. However, I refuse to let my trauma be the reason why I hold myself
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back in life. Instead, I use it as a tool to better myself. I turn dirt into gold
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That's my mentality in life because if you do not have that mentality in life
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how do you expect to level up? I want happiness. I'm going to create my
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happiness. I choose happiness in life and I choose to surround myself with happy
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people or people who just want to better themselves, and that's my attitude. So I
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lost over 110 pounds on my weight loss journey. I got into a car accident nearly
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two years ago in 2022 and I'm still recovering from the injuries. And I
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started one meal a day fasting after the car accident because, again, when I'm in
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chronic pain, I binge. I had a neck injury or still have a neck injury, a
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shoulder injury, oh sorry my thing just did this, a shoulder injury, a whole bunch
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I had a really severe concussion. It was really freaking bad. But through it all, I
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managed to make this transformation. So I am fasting to help deal with my
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inflammation. People understand, they look at me like, oh she's healthy. No, I'm not
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healthy. I mean, well, I'm healthy but I'm in a lot of pain. I'm in a lot of chronic
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pain and it's getting better since I've been fasting like a crazy person. And
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fasting does help reduce inflammation and so much. I feel like my C-reactive
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protein has come down. But anyway, let's get to the results. I'm just rambling way
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too much. So, you want to know how much I lost for this fast? Now, mind you, I did kind of
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screw up the pictures. I had day two and day three of the fast. However, I'm
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comparing pictures that I had because I take weekly progress pictures so they're
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pretty accurate of the three-day fast. Anyway, during this fast, I lost a total of nine
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pounds. Nine pounds down during this fast. But the pounds don't really matter. What
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really matters are like the pictures and the results. And the waist measurement
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because pounds won't always be accurate in terms of body fat loss. When you drop
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pounds, you could be dropping water. When you drop pounds, you could be dropping
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water. Let's try to think of something else. But, you know, or you could have went to the
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bathroom. That's water. Or, I'm not going to go into details but you can use your
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imagination. So, pounds aren't always an accurate measurement of body fat. Do you
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know what it is? Inches around your waist. So, I lost 2.5 inches around my waist
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during this fast. And I knew it because my skinny waist trainer is fitting me again
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I have to buy a larger one because all the crap I went through in the last three months
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with my health just getting, you know, I've been going through a lot, okay? Not only that
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I'm in a very tough situation. But regardless of whatever is going on in my life, I refuse
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to let it get me down. It almost caught me a few times but I am determined to just be
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better. And people don't understand what it takes to be a determined person in my situation
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You know, people usually turn to drugs or turn to, you know, hooking up with people. I turn to
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the gym. I turn to bettering myself. I turn to meditation. I turn to self-help books. I turn to
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God. I turn to things that I know will make me feel better. I can do it the other way but that's
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not going to help the situation. So, mindset of leveling up here. That's how you do it. That's
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the mindset of greatness. Anyway, we're going to go through some before and after pictures
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Oh, and the reason why I started this fast was to help kick myself into ketosis and I have been
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on a keto streak. I'm actually doing a two-man today. It's my rest day. I had this meal earlier
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on in the morning but like, I'm not even hungry and it's almost 6 o'clock p.m. So, yeah, that was
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obviously I'm going to be eating because that's not enough calories. But I honestly believe when
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it comes to fasting, it is the best tool to help kick yourself into ketosis. It is the best tool to
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help strengthen that autophagy and to kind of reset your system after eating out of hand, after
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binging for a long time. Now, I digress. If you are struggling with binging and you go fast and you
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find that you break your fast and you can't control your binging, right now fasting is not for you
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I've been there. What you need to do in this moment is focus on dialing back your food portions
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Focus on calorie restriction. Once you get your binging under control or your overeating under
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control and you're not like blowing it out, then jump into extended fast. Because what you're going
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to do is put yourself in a situation where you're fasting, you're just thinking of food, and then
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you're just going to binge after the fast. A fast doesn't count if you can't keep the weight off
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And I can tell you about five days after the fast, I have kept the weight off. So that is when
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mind you, after my fast, my period started. So that kind of like, I didn't gain any weight, but I should
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have been dropping, but I knew I dropped because my waist is getting leaner. I'm looking leaner at the
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gym. I'm looking leaner with my workouts. Now, I'm nowhere near, well, I'm not nowhere near, but here's
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a before or a comparison picture of me at my leanest, and this is where I am right now. And I
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I thought I was far worse than what I was, considering where my weight is at. I will reveal
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my weight in due time, but it is telling me that I put on a lot of muscle because my goal is to body
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re-comp and put on a ton of muscle. So I cannot wait to get to that. Anyway, let's do before and after
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pictures as I just processed a bit. So here is my front picture, as you can see here. It's really
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hard to tell, but one thing I have noticed with looking at all of these pictures is that my
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loose skin, my skin tightens up. Like, let's go back to my before and after picture with where I was
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basically, whatchamacallit, my before and after picture comparing my two pictures right now
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This is where I'm at my leanest and where I'm not at my leanest, well, which was like a picture
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taken recently. You see how my skin is a bit like sagging on the side there? That will tighten up
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That's what I noticed. I will drop weight, the skin will snag, and then as I lose weight, it will
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tighten up. So I'm kind of blessed in that aspect. Now, going back to the before and after pictures
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of the three I have here, day one, day two, and day three. Again, I notice my skin is kind of loosing
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up a bit, and then it kind of tightens up. I notice my legs are a bit smaller. I lost a bit in the
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boobage because I'm wearing the exact same bra in the two black bras. They're the exact same
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So I noticed that. I did lose a little bit of a side. I can afford to lose it because I've got
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a lot going on up here. Can be annoying when I'm working out. Listen, when anything gets in the way
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of my working out, it's a problem. Listen, I'm gonna be grateful for these because I always hated
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my chest because I was young. I grew up pretty quickly. I became a woman like at like what, 13
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So I was always self-conscious about it, but I'm learning to just like love my body. Like, I
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literally like hide myself when I'm at the gym because I'm just like so self-conscious of it
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Or when I'm on a machine, it's like whoop. Anyway, that's another story. So I can afford to lose a
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little bit on the, you know, the side boobage. Here is a side-by-side picture of day one versus
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day three. You can see a bit of the difference here. You can see that my loose skin is snagging
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up. Although I am wearing a different bra, I can tell I'm definitely leaner. The back picture here
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there's day one. Day two, again, you can see the loose skin coming up. And day three. So I do
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notice some difference. My legs are definitely tighter. That seems to be first. And my glutes
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yeah, my glutes look more shapely. So there's that. And day one versus day three, again
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the skin is a bit sagging a bit. But again, I know I will tighten right back up. I know that
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I have a feeling I might be able to get rid of my loose skin naturally. I just have a feeling
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my skin moves with me. Like my legs, I noticed when I was working out at the gym the other day
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I noticed a bit at the back of my legs. I was like, oh, great. But I'm like, I know it will tighten up. It always does. And with people talk about cellulite, like, oh, how do I get rid of
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cellulite? Build muscle. That's what happens. I'm having a bit of it in my legs because I did put
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on weight over the holidays, which I'm slowly shutting off. You guys will see that transformation
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Well, here's a quick little catch up here. That's me in January versus me now. So build muscle
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like literally lift weights that will get rid of cellulite. It will do it. So that's my advice to
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you. So yeah, overall, here's a side picture. I think it was a good fast. I learned a lot with
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this fast. As you guys know, my blood sugar while fasting was in the fives, which was interesting
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because my first fast, it was in the threes. But guess what happened after I stopped fasting
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My blood sugar is regulated. I jumped into a keto diet. My blood sugars were good. I got to the low
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threes. Unfortunately, my CGM fell off. I'm going to buy another one. And I do, depending on what's
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going on with my, my, my fitness situation, because I don't know if I'm going to go with
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this personal trainer, that personal trainer. Depending on what I'm doing, I am going to jump
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into another fast just to help that mitochondria out, just to help my body reset, even though it's
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doing pretty well. But I loved how I was feeling when I was fasting. But yeah, my glucose levels
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went down to the threes. After I worked out and went to the sauna, I had one glucose spike
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Usually it happens post-workout. So I would go to the gym, workout, sit in the sauna. And then
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when I'm in the sauna, my blood glucose level, it literally dropped. I didn't get a screenshot
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of it, but it dropped to 2.9. I was like, whoa, then it bounced back up. You'll see that in a vlog
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very soon. I am editing that vlog right now. And guess what happened after that spike? I got hungry
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So it is proof that it's those blood sugar spikes that make us hungry. Now that spike
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wasn't caused by food. It was literally caused by me depleting all my stores through exercise
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But anyway, there you have it. Fasting is great for you. I highly recommend getting the Element
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Packs. I will link it down below from my Amazon storefront. So go check that out. Element Packs
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really made my fast very convenient. I only used it for day one and day three. Day two, I didn't
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need it. And I think everyone should be fasting as a tool to help. Not everyone, but anyone who
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is like me, you know, who's trying to lose weight, who's struggled with obesity, fasting can help you
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Now for someone who has been fit all their life, maybe they're a bodybuilder, a lot of
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bodybuilders are against fasting. Maybe not for you. You don't have to fast. But I'm talking about
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people who are trying to reverse metabolic illness. Fasting is for you. Metabolic illness is obesity
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type one, type two diabetes, sorry, not type one, type two diabetes, you know, visceral fat around
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the waist, subcutaneous fat, high blood pressure, high blood sugar levels, and all of that. Anyway
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that is my little review. If you made it this far in the video, just drop in the word
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water. And I'm sending you guys my love. Take care. Bye
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