On the 72 hour sardine fast my glucose numbers dropped significantly from 103 at start to 65.🎉

Seasons brand in Water and fried in Kerrygold butter and Celtic Salt

I am doing this challenge right now. I fully fasted for 48 hours before doing it. Today is my first day of nothing but sardines. I am using King Oscar brand. I love sardines. I weighed 8 pounds less than 3 days ago. I have eaten 5 cans today. I am only drinking black tea, black coffee or water. My water intake during the fasting days and today has been way more than normal. Even though I really like sardines, I gotta say nothing but sardines is as difficult as the pure fasting. Hot sauce, black pepper and salt does help. After these 3 days I will jump into a full rigid keto diet. I was on keto before this except I also had been cheating eating graham crackers, figs, prunes and the Quest "keto" cookies and snacks. So I am doing this to kick myself back in gear for keto. Over time with cheating, my joints were having inflammation and I overall just felt bloated. Hopefully I can jump start this and not give into the sweets because on keto I definitely feel better.

FYI you can change sardines for mackerel on the challenge. Mackerel is higher in fat and omega 3's. I do love sardines ( pilchards) as a fish lover. ( I'm in England) and herrings can be used also on this. I used to eat a lot of rollmops and herrings in yogurt and dill, from lidls 🙂 Sardine fast does work and used it a few times 👍

Good job on finishing the challenge! 🎉

Sir, you are a hero regardless, for eating Chicken of the Sea Sardines in water. I did a 3 day sardine fast this week using Season Brand in EVOO but I drain all of the oil. I am in Ketosis hard and just switched Carnivore diet. Dropped 9 lbs. this week. (Most of that was water weight). I am thirsty all day with slight elevated pulse. You should try this fast again with better sardines in Olive Oil. Water sardines get old really quick.

I now am fully trained on the deen diet.2 tins a day mashed with tsatziki,red wine vinegar and it's all i feel the need for.A tad spartan i realise but i'll throw in the odd mushroom omelette at the weekend for variety but man...the health improvements are priceless.

I’m doing the challenge now. It is over with the last can at hour 72 - tonight at 9pm. Blood counts are amazing!

Dr. Boz says you can add a little mustard, too, which may help the fishy taste. Yes, definitely avoid sardines that have soy and seed oils. Costco usually sells a sardine in olive oil.

I did this challenge last week - after 3 days, since I felt great and liked sardines, I did another 3-day, 144 hour sardine fast. This week I plan to do a 3-day Sockeye Salmon fast, with perhaps a can of Mackerel or Sardines in there. These fasts help train me to avoid stress eating, and only it when I’m truely hungry, which can lead to OMAD fasting.

Hi 👋 , I am 48 hours in to this challenge and enjoyed your video. Thanks for sharing

I also used heavy whipping cream and stevia. I wasn't hungry after the 72 hours, at all, for weeks. Also lost 7 lbs.

Great 👍 video thanks 🙏 God Bless you 🙏🙏🙏

Kudos to you for completing the challenge. I'm just finishing my 3rd day. Watched Dr. Boz assignment and good reference videos are from Anita at Ketogenic Woman, who recently dropped 2 vids, Part 1 and 2 with recipes and a Q & A. Another is Indigo Nili, both on KZfaq. Thanks again for helping promote the Keto/Carnivore lifestyle. My person benefit from this challenge is the mental clarity I get so will probably do it again an a month or so. Cheers!

Not crazy about sardines, but I eat them for the nutrients when I’m too busy or tired to cook. I get them in water and add a tablespoon of melted butter. I’ve seen a recipe for sardine bisque which gets great reviews. Saw it on Dr. Lisa Weiderman’s channel, The Carnivore Doctor. I’ll wait for winter to try 😌 Thanks for your content.

I am doing the challenge. I have actually extended it for one more day. I do not have a ketone tester so just checking my weight. I have lost as of today, the begging of the fourth day, 8 pounds! My fasting blood sugar is still high but has come down and during the day it is much lower. I still love sardines, and have averaged about 6 cans a day. I only drink tea sweetened with Stevia and water. My eyes for some reason were really puffy the first two mornings but today they are back to normal. I think this is a wonderful way to kick off a healthier way of eating. I havent thought about food at all, just ate a can when I was hungry. I wish that I had a way to test my ketones but I dont think that I am really in ketosis heavily, I dont have a white tongue. But if weight loss is an indicator then that is ok with me. I think that I will do this once a month. I plan to keep my carbs to 40 or less and I am really looking forward to having a pile of greens tomorrow though!

Started the challenge today, as an alternative to considering something like Ozempic (my friend back home is doing). I have always eaten right but I have to assume too much, and I haven’t always exercised, but I have started up again. So not feeling like eating mimics what Ozempic does to a person. Planning to do some protein shakes with psyllium husk fiber when the challenge is over, again to mimic Ozempic (fiber slows stomach emptying and contributes to feeling full).

I didn't mind the sardines in oil - that I drain off. I added a cap full of organic apple cider vinegar. What I hated most - was the smell in the toilet even up to two days after I stopped.

I bought lots of sardines to do the challenge. I haven’t been able to. So there they sit. Like you I like them but don’t love them. I figure I will never want to eat them again. However, after watching this video I think I might do something a little different. I’m going to try once every two to three weeks doing one day of sardines. I think I can do that and not get sick of them. I know it’s not the 72 hour challenge but I think this is something I can do and it will help me. Thanks for the great info.

This challenge might be dangerous for those with insulin resistance or pre diabetes. Before the sardine challenge, my average fasting BG #’s were 100-110, 2 hours after meals 120-140. During the challenge my fasting #’s were normal to very low : 70-50. In the couple of weeks post sardine challenge, my numbers are now in the diabetic range and they never were before .

I like sardines, too, but I wouldn't want to eat nothing but sardines for 72 hours.

I eat sardines at least 3 times a week. Do not want to lose my taste for them. I'm with you sardines a being great tasting food but at least tolerable. Don't worry so much about the taste anymore but more about the vitamins and minerals the food provides. Enjoyed your video about the sardine challenge but I will pass on this one.

I’ll do it again but I won’t eat the cheap ones.

I use brunswick sardines, but add some creamy icelandic cod liver (high in vt a). My olive oil is a min of of one cough or throat irritation when drank in a bolus. A two cougher is real fresh no oxidization. I will not buyy from a chinese owned company as consumer group found that some contained corn oil mixed in and some were chemically pulled from the left over post virgin press.

The more sardines you eat, the less hungry you are. I found that by the third day, I never got hungry. I ate one tin of the third day.

Wild Planet Sardines in olive oil for me. Sometimes I add a little hot sauce (homemade).

I'm drinking a zevia ginger ale soda while dreading my next can of sardines...😢

How would this affect type 2 diabetes?

You know, I still can’t bring myself to eat sardines. I stick to steak😂❤I’m also documenting my journey through carnivore but more so animal based nutrition. I’m fat lying through different animal based lifestyles for the foreseeable future.

I haven't taken the challenge. After watching some of the videos I did stock up on sardines and have had a couple of sardine lunches, and did see some blood sugar improvements after them. I like sardines well enough with mustard. I'm afraid if I eat nothing but sardines for 72 hours, I might not ever want to look at a can of sardines again. Even among the sardines I've stocked up on, I really liked one variety, and haven't been crazy about the others. Speaking of that, beware of Chicken of the Sea. I bought a few cans of that brand. I couldn't find an ingredient list on the cans. I assumed the ingredients would be relatively clean. But, online sources say the variety I bought, lightly smoked in oil, contains soybean oil.

how did u measure your glucose? assuming a fasting measure. what time of day. wish mine were so good. congrats

herring is the same fish and taste better a lot better i ate both and lost 4lbs i did have mustard with the sardines

I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW A GOOD BRAND. TASTING WISE OF SARDINES...I USE TO BUY THE YELLOW WRAPPED CAN OF TINY SARDINES BUT I CAN'T HACK IT NOW.

Sardines are so expensive these days.

why are you using canned sardines? why not fresh sardines? They are much better and healthier.

72 hours on water willl do the same! Probably better!!