I have been doing refeeds quite regularly while on a keto diet. following the method of doing one after 4 clear days of fat and protein, today I was due another refeed but I decided to skip this one, I decided I am going to see how the diet goes with longer periods of time in between refeeds.
I have found that the refeeds are not just a helpful thing in terms of how it affects my body by replacing depleted glycogen, raising hormone levels,keeping leptin in check. but its helps my mindset too, having cheat meals/days give me something to look forward to. but I think I may have become a bit too dependent on them and I also think I don't need to be doing them as often as I am. I think how often might depend on how much working out a person does. I have said for a while I am gonna try longer periods of being keto before cheat days but so far I have had difficulty sticking with that and I always end up caving in to the lure of what I can eat. my current meds i'm on mirtazapine doesn't help as I find it increases hunger and when I get into a routine and begin to look forward to the cheat days it becomes hard to skip them, especially when I am craving carbs. I have done ok in the last few days though and I am going to try and push a bit longer before a refeed. I noticed that on average looking at graphs of my calories in and my calorie expenditure that with refeed days factored in every 5th day I am not in a caloric deficit, I think I need to get back to being in one, I was when I started keto.