04/17/2026
Happy Friday!
I wanted to share another unorthodox fasting method I’ve been using to shed some unwanted fat. Drumroll please 🥁… enter Sardine Fasting. This has been popularized by Dr. Dom D’Agostino and Dr. Nick Norwitz. Basically you get all the benefits of a water fast, but like with protein sparing modified fasts (which we talked about), you save lean tissue and burn fat. In particular visceral fat is burned according to Dr. D’Agostino, which is the nasty fat around your organs.
Dr. Norwitz came up with template that I have followed. He gives a few options. Fasting for multiple days in a row with just sardines, fasting all day with sardines then followed up with a low carb dinner and situational fasting where instead of say some food you don’t want to eat or if you on a long flight, eating a can or so beforehand to get you through. He also recommends a tin of sardines per 50lbs of bodyweight. Salt food liberally that day as you’ll drop a fair amount of water. Also if energy stores feel low adding a bit more fats (ie olive oil, etc) to help. But sardines in themselves are a complete package of food with high omega 3s, selenium, creatine and many other micronutrients I could go on about.
I recently completed a week of fasting all day and eating a low carb dinner at night and dropped about 9lbs. I never felt tired or weak. It was amazing. I’ll definitely be using this moving forward on and off to shed some unwanted fat!
Of course this is not medical advice. So definitely contact your healthcare professional before starting something like this if you have underlying conditions.
Well that’s it. Have an awesome weekend! And let’s show some love to the humble sardine 🐟 🤤 lol!
