THE MORE I ATE,
THE HUNGRIER I FELT 💎

I’ve been fasting for years now. Six years, I think, since the beginning of the pandemic anyway. In that time, I’ve become a completely different shape. Losing 100 kilos will do that, though, and losing it slowly over the years seems to have helped it stay off.

I never did it as punishment. Nor as a diet. And not because I’m trying to become some purified version of myself. I simply discovered that I feel so much better when I eat in a short window and then leave my body alone to rest and digest.

I break yesterday’s fast in a four-hour eating window every morning, then fast for 20 hours until the next morning. I drink water and black tea, eat a bowl of muesli at 7am, and have an early lunch at 10:30am.

What surprised me most was how quickly it became ordinary.

At first, fasting sounds so dramatic, almost impossibly hard to most people. But after a while, it is just breakfast, brunch, then freedom from food until the next day. I don’t really think about it anymore, and I rarely feel hungry. Oddly, I felt much more hunger when I ate “normally”, even though I was eating far more food.

Now there’s no constant grazing. No planning big dinners. No wondering what to eat at night. And no longer constantly thinking about food, where to eat, or how much I’d like to lose weight. The body has become lovely and quiet, and I love the quiet. That is probably the real reason I have stayed with it.

I’m not suggesting everyone should fast. I only know that, for me, eating less often has become the most natural way to live.

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