What ideas to feel fit and good? Anybody got ideas?

I was never fat during my life - always between 45 and 78 KG (am 174, male, older generation). But from time to time I do an extended juice fasting. I went to the gym once and made the test: just put a 10 KG weight in each hand and imagined "this is what you carry all time". I was ashamed and astonished. Last time it did it for 90 days (75 to 58 KG). As from today I do it until new years evening. But you need a starting point and to keep it. I will. 7 liters a day is a lot and sometimes you are not able to drink this much - body tells you. But while I walk (I leave with 3 or 4 bottles) nothing is left when I come back. Feeling hungry disappears after some days completely.

"FOOD" - So every day:
1 Liter of tea with a little honey (the body needs sugar)
1 Liter of water with a Maggie cube (the body needs salt as well)
1 Liter of water with multivitamin tablet
1 Liter of "Puleva" (Milk, that contains unsaturated acid - do you say this like that..?)
500 ml fresh orange juice (only morning, as otherwise you do not sleep)
1 Liter of water with fresh pressed lemons
2 coffees in the morning
500 ml of Protein drink
1 Liter of tomato juice with African Cayenne pepper (attention - very spicy) - total 7 liters. I do not count calories - useless.

SPORT - every day:
45 minutes in the gym (morning)
Cleaning apartment, shopping etc.
4 hours walking every day (Nordic walking) - but only if the weather is not too bad, sometimes jogging (as far as possible in my age)

ATTENTION - you have to force yourself very often - but once done, you feel great. Constipation! I drink every second day or so a small glass of Magnesium Hydrochloride (tastes horrible, attention). But cleans the inside from A to Z. But enema seems better.

ADDITIONS - amino acid pills and sometimes, when I really need to sleep - Valerian.

I have no car, motorbike or bicycle. I do everything by walking or public transport if necessary. The last time the body changed drastically, became more muscles, lost weight, depressions nearly disappeared, was straight, clear in my head and all these little things (skin, hair, being tired, lazy etc, just disappeared). As well it seemed to me, reducing medication is easier. It felt simply great, although I had to buy some new clothes... After 90 days I offered myself a nice Big Mac. On average I was also able to live on 15 to 20 EUR a day. And I live on a tight budget and have to be a minimalist (own approx. 325 items and I counted every fork and knife..).

I assume you ran this regimen past a medical doctor and nutritionist? I've done a lot of my own research and learned this type of fasting can be extremely bad for the body. Intermittent fasting is one thing, but extreme liquid fasts are another. I encourage anyone to seek qualified professional advice before starting this type of fast. And I don't mean the "doctors" on Youtube who promote these kinds of extreme diets, but your family doctor and a qualified nutritionist. And if you have diabetes or other health conditions, such extreme diets can be even more damaging.

Some links about the dangers of liquid diets. I mean... do whatever works for you personally, but I would be really careful about recommending this kind of regimen to others. A lot of people on this site suffer from mental illness and the effects of extreme diets on mental illness can be serious. Even low carb diets can be dangerous for someone with mental illness.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323136

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11639-1

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36584702/

Maybe you are right - if it could be deleted? Went too far here.

Also, I have recently lost almost 20 pounds from eating a healthy balanced diet and increasing my exercise level. I use the free app of MyFitnessPal.

If you want a mod to look at it, just hit the "report" button under your original post. As I said, if it's working for you great, but there was some guy in Britain who recently died of a heart attack on a juice fast, and he was slim and fit.

I was just going to say Yoga is what I use. It is a strength and flexibility workout all in one. Of course, I'm still obese so I can't say if it works, but at my level of fitness I don't need a gym because I can do yoga and walk out dripping sweat. It makes me pay attention to my diet because forward folds are very uncomfortable with a gut in the way. Less soreness (DOMS) the next few days compared to weight workout. My pdoc told me that weight training would be the best activity to combat depression (he didn't give me data but I didn't ask), but any activity is better than no activity. Oh and overtraining can backfire with depression, so best to start slow. I don't offer this as advice, but it is what I have gotten from mental health professionals

I started out just with walking and it makes a huge difference on my depression, with a day's lag. On a 1-10 scale where 10 is the worst, days after I get my walk in tend to be around 5, while in this current episode, days after I skip a walk (pun not intended, but yeah) turn out to be more like 9s.