Intermittent Fasting

Here I go again, jumping on one of the latest(ish) fad diet's bandwagon. I'm not normally one to do that, but all my normal stuff is proving even harder to stick with since working from home. Everything is just right there, easy access.

Last year at this time I decided to give Keto a try. Like I mentioned in a previous post, it was going really well for the first two months, but with the girls' birthday celebrations at the end of February I kind of fell of the wagon and then shortly after that I started working exclusively from home and I just could never get back on track.

So having had no luck with other strategies all last year, I was gearing up to start Keto again on the 25th, right after my birthday. But then I was texting with a friend last night and she was telling me that she and another friend are doing intermittent fasting and it was going well. I tried it briefly back in 2019, but for reasons I can't remember had decided to wait and try again another time, then it kind of fell off my radar until last night. So, the time is now! I am going to give it a try starting today.

The thing is, I'm a coffee lover, and I like it with cream but you can only have black coffee until whatever time your eating window opens up (most people fast from 6 or 7 PM until 10 or 11 AM). So if I'm going to do this, I will have to get by on one cup of black coffee from the time I wake up until 10:00, then I will finally be able to have coffee with cream.

The idea is to have a fasting and eating cycle of 16:8 (there are other versions, but that's the one I'm going with), so you fast for 16 hours and then can eat whatever you want (!) for the next 8, and then repeat. I would love to have my fasting window be from 7:00 PM to 11:00 AM, but because of the coffee thing, I am going to do 6:00 PM to 10:00 AM. I will give this a shot and see how it goes.

It's 7:05 now, I finished dinner at 6:10, so now I have nothing but black coffee until 10:10 tomorrow morning. The food part of that is easy, but man, I don't care for black coffee. But, it's better than no coffee at all. Here goes!

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