An experiment for 1 week cycles of Keto+IF for little under a month

I tried posting this in r/keto but apparently it promoted cheat days. But I still wanted to put this data somewhere incase it helps someone.As the title says, over May I did an experiment with keto and intermittent fasting. I've done keto and IF before over the years for months at a time, but I feel like my biggest hangup was trying to schedule it around holidays, birthdays, and trips I knew I wanted to eat a lot of different things. And maybe I got too scared by the "don't get knocked out of ketosis" and fell out of it. But recently, hearing more about using keto cycles to break plateaus, I was interested in trying it out as way to make my schedule more flexible. As an extreme stress test, I did keto for a month where I was on keto during the week and off keto during the weekend, combined with intermittent fasting to promote jump starting ketosis (my hunch anyway).Eating scheduleMon: 3pm-6pmTues: 12pm-6pmWed: 12pm-6pmThur: 12pm-6pmFri: 12pm-3pmSat: Off Keto/IF from 12pm afterSun: Off Keto/IF until 6pmThe idea being during keto I would only eat in the early afternoon at 18:6, and I would space my windows further away from my off keto windows, slimming to 21:3.What I AteWhile on keto, I normally just ate my tried and true: keto breakfast for lunch. 3 slices of thick bacon, and 2 sausages + 2 eggs fried in the leftover bacon grease. With some fresh spinach picked from the garden. I generally kept my carb count very low (<10g) so I could splurge a bit more with more carby hot sauces or seasoning without having to think about it too much.I would also alternate between having a bowl of Magic Spoon cereal (allulose) and Catalina Crunch cereal/granola (stevia/monkfruit extract)For snacks I had cured meats, string cheese, and raspberriesI also would flavor water with vitamin Mio and a dash of potassium salt for electrolytes.Off keto, all bets were off. One weekend was full of pizza and beer for our board game night.The DataAll measurements were taken in the morning after showering at roughly the same time.28M 5'8"DateWeight (lbs)5/1188.85/21885/3186.85/4184.45/5183.85/6 (OFF)181.65/7 (OFF)183.85/8185.65/9185.85/101845/11182.45/12181.65/13 (OFF)179.25/14 (OFF)182.85/15184.45/16183.85/17180.85/18179.25/19179.45/20 (OFF)177.65/21 (OFF)180.25/22182.65/23182.65/24179.65/251785/26176.85/271765/28174.85/29174.45/30175ResultsFor me, at least, I was happy to learn that even with an extreme cycle I was still able to put down 1-2 pounds a week. However, not seen by the data, my stomach would have a hell of a time adjusting each week and made my bathroom visits less than ideal. I think a two week cycle is probably a great compromise in my case to allow me to still be flexible with how I plan when to go on keto.Hope this information helps someone out there! via /r/intermittentfasting https://www.reddit.com/r/intermittentfasting/comments/13w95cf/an_experiment_for_1_week_cycles_of_ketoif_for/?utm_source=ifttt https://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png