Last night I cracked after a 3 day electrolyte fast. 5 days is my record and I was aiming this time at some lofty goals a lot more than 5. It definitely does something to all your glands and hormones, pituitary, growth hormone, pancreas, insulin and more and this time I was in full ketosis very early on. There is however a very intense feeling and state of mind that led me to crack yesterday and no amount of electrolyte water seemed to save me from it.
I'm relatively thin and light but badly want to lose the last bit. Have done multiple 2, 3 and 5 day fasts over the previous months. Lots of weights as well. Lots of runs up to 10km and lots of walking. I even devised a run which involves 2 major hills, each being a vertical rise of about 200 metres. So it's a 60 to 80 minute round trip up the one and back down again, up the other and back down again, essentially interval training. Even that did not shift the flab.
Of course there's also the countless interval training on treadmills, stair machines climbing an imaginary skyscraper. I even started taking seven flights of stairs in my building instead of the lift.
Almost time to pull out all stops, am at my wits end and it is interfering with happiness and other life goals.
I just took the seal off my bottle of yohimbe to see what it looks like. Very small capsules containing a dark beige powder. I don't know how to describe the smell, but it definitely has one. Just like some kind of unusual plant bark which is what it is derived from.
However I am still too scared, was thinking of taking one and sitting in the cafe of a hospital for a few hours reading a book so I don't need to go far if necessary. This was one of the reviews :
This review is what I am taking it for :
and this -
That makes me wonder if I should pour out some of a capsule before trying this. Say take a half-dose for the first time and see how it goes, to avoid the risk of a
bad trip which lands me in a hospital or ambulance. Would save the precious beige powder in a small ziplock bag or jar, not that it was expensive, just that it's very hard to find living where I live, I only managed to find it while traveling overseas.
source -
https://www.amazon.com/NutraBio-Yohimbe-4mg-Weight-Supplement/product-reviews/B07YM3F68J/
Actually I went to
...and entered the number on the bottom of the bottle and it provided a data sheet.
"it feels much more racy and aggressive than caffeine"
- when you have exhausted all other options - cannot do any more cardio, fast any more, at your wits end..
This is the video review of the product -
I used to take L-Carnitine but it didn't seem to do anything so that's why I have not bought it up till now. But today I bought it for the first time in years and will take the max dose of 6 capsules and see if it makes a difference. At least it is not scary like yohimbine. Actually if L-Carnitine is found in red meat that is extra reason to include red meat on the refeeds.
They said to skip your morning coffee when you take the yohimbe and that it takes 40 minutes to kick in.
Have also considered organising some kind of medical alert bracelet which contains the message
has not eaten for days and took yohimbe Just in case I have to call an ambulance from here but pass out before they scrape me off the floor. Spoke to the pharmacy and they said the person should wear a card around their neck with the medical information rather than a bracelet - saved embarrassment by saying I was asking for someone else.
At the moment, I just test ketones with ketostix. It does cross my mind to test blood glucose, but that involves poking a hole in yourself which I hate. Then other things one could test at home are blood pressure and heart rate. I normally have no problem putting two fingers on my wrist and checking heart rate but wonder with yohimbine if one goes on too much of a psychedelic trip to be collected enough to even do that. It might just be better to have a digital readout that essentially says
you're going to die call emergency.
That is what I have to some extent done and would be the likely healthy option. Perhaps with just L-Carnitine and L-Tyrosine supplementation but no Yohimbine. But how much patience and dedication does that require. Patience is running very low after the number of multi day (electrolyte) fasts I have done with less than wonderful results.
I definitely won't forget to add salt (and a few other ionic compounds perhaps, potassium and magnesium)
That sounds healthy with the vegetable juice. I remember when I moved away from my last long term home among all the items I either sold, gave away or stored, there was the juicer and someone came and gave me some cash and took it away. It had sat in the cupboard unused for years. And when I did use it, it may have been for carrots but would never have put cucumber, celery or beets in it.
Maybe that vegetable juice fasting is more bearable than just electrolyte fasting, that's how your father managed 30 days, which is a lot more than my 3 days or 5 days.
At least yohimbine is directly from a plant (a tree) not some kind of exotic made in a lab. Tribes in Africa use it, but not for slimming. So it's not a
big pharma thing as such. But I never take anything but paracetamol a few times a year when sick and maybe every five years antibiotics for something or other that won't go away by itself. Did not get vaxxed. So the idea of taking a very powerful alkaloid which may lead to a
bad trip remains quite scary.
Hope this post doesn't trigger anyone, I've got personal reasons for being so obsessed with this, can go into a bit more detail some other time perhaps. If I take yohimbine I'll post the results. The first use will basically be a test to see if I can handle the effects, not necessarily to see any results from just one usage. Any opinions or help would be welcome, please don't be mean though we all have our quirks. Maybe there comes a point where one has to get over a fear of powerful drugs or herbs. Getting another juicer and buying beetroot and stuff daily is not a bad idea either but I'm really running low on patience now and fear a month of all kinds of colourful vegetable pulp in the bin, digestion effects I won't even want to write about and then not even any proper results in the end to show for it. There is a lot of effort involved in keeping those juicers clean after disposing of the pulp. The only advantage of it is it does not risk damaging your heart muscle, mind or endocrine system or sending you on a
bad trip over many hours.