Intermittent Fasting Blog
April 8, 2008
After one month trying out Intermittent Fasting, my wife and I have been so delighted with the results that I’ve decided to devote another blog entirely to that subject: Our Longevity Blog. There you will find a detailed discussion of our experiences. We are losing weight, we feel healthier and the diet is not at all difficult. I expect to continue intermittent fasting for the rest of my life, so long as I don’t develop any diseases that contra-indicates it, such as diabetes. The beauty of it is, research suggests that this diet itself will help prevent adult-onset diabetes, as well as lower our risks from cancer and other deadly diseases.
And it is much easier than I expected. The word ‘fasting’ brings up images of near-starvation and hunger pains, but really, the way we time it, it is not difficult at all. As I described earlier, we are essentially fasting alternate nights, and the following morning — so we fast part of each day. We also eat two meals every day, one large meal and one small meal or snack. And since the fast begins right after the main meal of the day, we begin our fasts with full stomachs. By bed-time I’m a little hungry, but not too much. Then eight hours asleep I don’t even notice I’m fasting. The next morning it is only about five hours from when I get up before I start eating again, and while I’m hungry during those hours, it is not an extreme hunger — it’s just like I normally feel just before dinner time. I have plenty of energy, and often spend an hour walking the three mile round-trip to town and back. The fact that I’m fasting has no effect on my activity levels.
