Weight Report after Ten Months Fasting
Well, we cheated a bit over the holidays, but neither of us put on any weight. That was a bit surprising considering how we ate. We kept to the diet schedule all month up to Christmas, which worked out to be an eating morning — so we ate all day and resumed the diet the next morning. Doing that is surprisingly difficult, we get more hungry waiting for 2:00 pm when we break our fast than we normally do when we haven’t eaten the evening before.
New Years Eve was the same story, again we ignored the diet that night (which lasted until about 2:00 am the next morning), but resumed the diet when we got up the next day, with a short fast until 2:00 pm. We did the same thing a third time on January 2nd, because my in-laws came to visit — Isabel’s mother and two brothers, their wives and two children. They were still here on the 3rd when we resumed our schedule, which we explained in detail — and now Isabel’s mom is going to try it.
Anyhow, we weighed in on January 1st:
Date - My weight (kilos) - Isabel’s Weight (kilos)
- 5 March 2008 - 99.2 - 65.9
- 1 Dec 2008 - 94.5 - 61.6
- 1 Jan 2009 - 94.1 - 61.4
So we even lost a little bit, though nothing significant. The main thing is we feel great — I have not had an attack of gout since starting the diet, and Isabel has taken up painting again after stopping two years ago in frustration due to arthritis. I joke that we are getting younger, but in fact it almost seems that way.
