Fasting Through Difficult Times
It has been several months since my last post here, but I’ve just been putting it off. Every time I look at my last post, about Isabel quitting the fast due to pregnancy, I just don’t feel much like talking about it. The sad facts are that she lost that pregnancy after only three months. Needless to say, we have been devastated by the loss. I won’t go into the cause of the problem, other than to say it is unrelated to diet.
The good news, for those of you interested in intermittent fasting, is that when she got back into the fasting - feasting schedule, she effortlessly lost the weight she had gained during the interim. In fact, she is now steadily weighing in around 60 kilos, while I’m down to 93.
This pattern of daily eating-fasting-eating-fasting has become so second nature to us that we rarely think about it. It has no effect on our activity intensity or scheduling. Rainy season has just ended here, and we have been spending an hour each evening, after the heat of day wanes, pulling weeds from the back yard. The ground is so hard when dry that it is impossible to get the weeds out, so we have to water a section before we can weed it. Pulling those long roots out is still hard work, but we need the exercise. It makes no difference to us if it a fasting evening or had been a fasting morning.
Likewise, the cool hours of morning are devoted to cleaning, raking and other physical activity that we do not want to do during the heat of day. But it makes no difference if we are working on full stomachs or empty — our energy level is constant, and higher than it was before starting on this fasting schedule.
So for those of you have been wondering, yes we are alive and well, and continue to follow our fasting lifestyle with wonderful results. We are approaching 20 months on this intermittent fasting schedule now, and see no reason to change anything. It is easy. We feel healthier. We lost weight, and more importantly, are no longer creeping upward on the scale, as we had in earlier years.
I’ll try to post more frequently now that we’ve gotten through all that.
