Thanks for all the responses. To a lot of you that ask why do this or recommending other methods of getting to your own goals, the best response I have to that is to remember that everyone’s own body make up is so individual. What works for one person doesn’t work for another - what is extreme to one person is unthinkable to another. I spent many years in my 20s and 30s preaching calories in/calories out and traditional thoughts of training until I started to realize it’s so much more individual than that. There’s no better example of this than today on the opening Sunday of the NFL where you have some of these athletes at 260 lbs under 7% body fat eating however they please all off-season to show up day 1 in the same condition as someone else who did multiple workouts a day and had perfect diet.
I fast 23 hours every day and eat one large meal of roughly 2500-3000 calories in the evening - usually an “all you can eat” portion of meat and rice with Ninja Creami protein ice cream. I do very little cardio and train with moderate weights for about 40 minutes 5 days a week. I spent the first 25 years of my training in a more traditional bodybuilding lifestyle with diet and workouts. With the fasting it allows me to stay around 220 lbs and 10-12% body fat. When I introduce DNP for short periods of time it helps me cut down a little more obviously. When I do a longer fast of 2-5 days I usually lose about 2 lbs per day and gain back 40% of that weight on the first meal post fast due to Glycogen.
I am going to give it a go on a 72 hour fast as of tonight @ 500mg of dnp a day. Starting weight 218. Mostly doing it to challenge myself (dnp cravings with fasting cravings should be a special kind of pain) and because as far as I can find online no one has really done any extended fasts on DNP and documented it. From a health or danger standpoint I have no worries as I stay hydrated while fasting with electrolytes and little to no cardio. More or less I wanted to see if anyone had done this but maybe didn’t post out in the public about it. Thanks again for all the responses.