Our Longevity Diet

Jeez, here we are in the last month of 2011, and I noticed I have not posted to this site all year. Not because we stopped our fasting diet, or have been having any problems, on the contrary — everything continues along so well I hardly think of the diet any more. It has now been three years and nine months that we have followed this lifestyle, and I can say without hesitation that we are pleased with the results.

We are not skinny — but the creeping weight gain we were struggling with before starting the diet has been held in check. I fluctuate from 90 to 92 kilos, and Isabel is still a little over 60 kilos. Our health has been excellent. So there is really nothing to add to this blog. Maybe next year I’ll post again. Intermittent fasting works for us.

We will be taking a short hiatus from this site, as we need to go to Colima again. This time we are driving, so we hope it will have less impact on our eating schedule — though if it is necessary for comfort we will cheat a bit on the days we are actually driving — we expect to maintain our fasting regime while there. We expect to be gone about two weeks.

I can post to this blog from a cyber café, but hesitate to do so, since one never knows when those places have keystroke capture software installed to steal passwords. I’ll have to decide if anything I have to say in those weeks is worth the risk, or if it can wait until our return.

We normally report our monthly weigh-in around the 4th or 5th of each month, but that will have to be later in June, since we like to use the same scale for consistency. As of now, I weigh 95.1 kilos, and Isabel weighs 62.8. I’m down exactly four kilos from when we started the fast almost three months ago, and Isabel is down one kilo — she was down 2.5 kilos at the beginning of this month, but bounced back and then plateaued out at her current weight.

As we approach the end of our third month fasting we are both feeling really well, and see no reason why we wouldn’t continue this for the rest of our lives … so a couple weeks without posts on this blog should just be drop in the bucket by a year or two from now!

Welcome to our living experiment in lifestyle design. For the past month, we have been experimenting with an intermittent fasting diet, tweaked to match our habits, and fortuitously made much easier than similar experiments reported on the Web. From what I’ve read so far, most of those who have tried an intermittent fasting diet seem to either confuse it with caloric restriction (which it is NOT), or they create an imbalanced caloric intake, with more food one day than the next (i.e. breakfast and lunch one day, supper the next). Our method overcomes those problems.

If you have no idea what intermittent fasting is, read the ‘About’ page using the link just below our picture in the right-hand column. In future posts I’ll explain more about the studies done so far, both in animal models and with humans, that convinced us to try this diet. I’m not sure ‘diet’ is the correct term, it is more of a lifestyle choice that controls not what, but when, we eat. The next couple posts will server as our introductions, and then we will start posting about the diet and how it works for us.