Week 1 of Intermittent Fasting

This week, I am starting an experiment with intermittent fasting (IF). IF is the habit of eating every other day. There are many benefits to this, which I may get into in another post – Google it if you’re curious. It took me a few weeks of thinking about it and skipping meals for practice. I’d fasted a few times in my twenties and found it difficult. But this time, the first day was remarkable easy. Yes, I was hungry, but not suffering, and most of the time didn’t think about it. In fact, I found the next day to be more difficult, trying to stuff in two days worth of calories in one day. That’s the day I was tired and crabby!

One interesting thing, the day after eating, I tried simply not eating unless I was really hungry – to see if I could make it unfed through the day without a strong commitment. No chance! I thought about food constantly and was ravenous. I was eating by noon. Today I tried the same thing and didn’t make it past nine am! The moral: when my body knows that I’m not going to feed it, it’s just fine. If it knows I’ll feed it if it produces symptoms of hunger, wow does it. That’s kind of cool to know…