My weight loss has been slow, and rather painful. Well, until this week that is! I have been hearing a lot about intermittent fasting lately and I have to say it had me intrigued right away. For those who have not heard of this way of eating, let me fill you in. There’s many different ways to do it, some choose to take a day off from eating and some do it daily. The daily way is a little more complicated sounding but it’s really simple. Daily fasting is taking long stretches in between meals, that’s what I am doing. My version of intermittent fasting is to stop eating by a certain time every day, there’s no way that I would be able to skip days without eating all day.
Personally, I have always been slightly put off at the idea of eating all day long. I loathe having to space out my meals when I’m hungry in the late morning after breakfast, and then feeling obligated to eat when I’m
An example of my lax low carb meal.
not hungry for dinner. Honestly, I can’t remember really ever getting hungry in the evening, around traditional dinner time. For the past week, I have stopped eating entirely by 5 o’clock, not to say I don’t eat the same amount of calories because I definitely still do. Every day, I have lost a pound a day without restricting my calories. This is done in conjunction with my lax low carb diet.
Eating on an intermittent schedule is pretty much perfect for my lifestyle. I wake up early and go into full power when I get out of bed. Breakfast comes first, naturally, and then I keep moving until I get my daughter down for her early afternoon nap. When she goes to sleep is when my day goes in to overdrive. During nap time I jog on the treadmill for thirty minutes and do the bulk of my work from home. Once my daughter wakes up, I’m starved! Usually, I eat modestly and then eat again a few hours later for dinner, when it’s time to eat dinner I don’t even feel hungry.
Here’s why I worry, while I haven’t craved much since eliminating carbs, I’m worried that I’ll get the urge to binge like this. So far, I have not even been hungry after 5 in the afternoon but if the situation is right, the temptation could be overwhelming.
