What I Eat in a Day || Keto Egg Fast

The Keto Egg Fast… have you heard of it?

Perhaps you’ve heard about the keto diet and done a little surface level research to see what it’s all about.

You may have heard it’s a good way to lose weight (…it can be).

Maybe you’ve decided to try the keto diet on for size and nosed around Pinterest to collect meal inspiration.

It doesn’t take long cruising around Pinterest to be inundated with recipes galore: 50 keto chicken recipes from a single rotisserie chicken, 7 1-minute keto mug cakes to make right now, or a total Thanksgiving Day keto meal – your family will never know!

After you scroll for a couple of minutes, you see a pin that says “Lose 5-10lbs naturally in 1 week with the keto egg fast!”

What the heck is an egg fast? I’m just over here trying to decide which mug cake to make…if I have the ingredients.

A Keto Egg Fast is a tool we can use on a keto lifestyle.

I love using egg fasts in my keto lifestyle!

Here are the benefits I get from using these fasts:

Egg Fasts are

easy to follow and,
budget friendly
with reduced options which means,
reduced decision fatigue
and most importantly, it’s like a Reset button on your keto lifestyle!

That last benefit is really my main focus when I pull an egg fast for a few days… I can really get off the rails with too many keto snack-y foods. The pecans, pepperoni, and pepper jack cheeses seem to catch me off guard all the time!

But it’s still only a tool in our keto tool box.

I can be tempted to get on an egg fast and just coast there for long periods of time. But that’s a misuse of the tool. You wouldn’t use a sledge hammer to nail in finishing nails, and you don’t just live your entire existence on the keto egg fast.

It’s truly intended to be a short term reset or “fast” to drop some weight or bloat quickly. Or as it is in my case, reset my food choices so I stop eating like a jerk all the time!

I try to think of it like that sledge hammer: use it for demolition, but then put it away for cleanup and rebuilding.

For me, I only allow 3 to 5 days on any one egg fast and then there’s a couple of days afterwards where I ease back to my “regular keto diet”… Just with less cheese, nuts, and cured charcuterie!

We know there are some rules, so what are they?

You can scour the interwebs far and wide and see that there are as many variations on the egg fast as there are people who want to follow it. But there are some general “rules” to guide your path.

Here is what I do:

You’re eating eggs and fat. For every 1 egg you consume, eat 1 tablespoon of fat with it. (I use butter, homemade mayo, and MCT Oil)
You can have 1 ounce of cheese per egg, but don’t exceed 6 ounces total in a day. (Typically I keep it to only 1-2 ounces per day IF I need it and I avoid cream cheese… too triggering for me!)
Eat a minimum of 6 eggs per day. (I’m usually limiting myself to 12-14 eggs per day… it’s less about weight loss and more about a food choice reset for me.)
Stop eating 3 hours before you go to bed.
Drink loads of water and electrolytes. (I use SaltT which is flavored and sweetened, but is zero carb).
You’re allowed to drink sparkling, calorie free drinks. (I only allow seltzer water and Bublys).
Coffee is allowed as is clear tea. No cream here. I drink black coffee. But if you don’t, use some butter or MCT oil in your coffee and subtract that fat from the meal you’re drinking the beverage near.