When you start the Snake Diet, you want to create a schedule to follow. You can easily set this up on a calendar that you buy or use an app or whatever. The purpose is to have your plan at a glance.
There are no right or wrong ways to create your calendar. Using one can make it easier to stick with the diet as well as plan for events. If you don’t like seeing a lot of information all at once and you just want a basic overview of your plan, rather than having a calendar filled with a lot of writing, you can simply mark the days that you’re not fasting.
If want to keep track of how many days you’ve fasted, you can just put an F in for that day. Start your schedule by writing in the 48 hour fasting. The guidelines say that users should be in ketosis during this time.
You can use urine strips to check to make sure that you’ve hit this. If you’re not in ketosis, the guidelines say that you should continue to fast until you are. The purpose for this is to break the food cravings, get the body into ketosis and get the weight off.
Most people schedule the 48 hours and even if they hit ketosis, they may keep on going. Once you break your fast, you would write that on your calendar using a code like BF (Broke Fast).
You want to keep up with this because it lets you follow your progress and you can see how many days and times you fasted. Write down the day that you begin your fast. Then 48 hours later, when you break the fast, track the foods that you ate and the calorie and carb content on your calendar.
The purpose for this is just to have in the future so that if you want to repeat the same meal, you don’t have to figure your calories and carbs over and over again. You need to eat some protein and a lot of vegetables and fruit.
The key to maintaining your diet schedule is to make sure that you consume this food within your eating window. As soon as you get finished with your refeeding, you would go right into another fast.
Some people do an initial 48 followed by a 24 hour period. During this time, you would again have limited calories and you would also check to make sure that you were still in ketosis.
When you create your calendar, you want to center it around your time or weight loss goal. Some people will set up the calendar for 31 days, while others set it up to last until they hit their weight loss target.
Some people do end of the week check-ins using their calendar. At the end of 7 days, they total up how many days they fasted, how many calories they’ve had as well as how much weight they’ve lost.
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