Insights into Intermittent Fasting

Time flies, but I've been experimenting with Intermittent Fasting now for at least a couple of months straight.  I started out with once a week, and now I'm pretty regular on Mondays and Fridays every week, sometimes with an extra fast thrown in strategically.

I'm certainly no expert yet, but I do come up with some insights from time to time that I will share here in the blog for anyone who is interested.  And here are the first two...

• Don't drink too much coffee at the end of a fast.  It's probably due to the elevated levels of epinephrine and norepinephrine near the end of a fast, but if I drink too much coffee near the end of a fast I get extremely jittery and ridiculously hungry.
• Go breakfast to breakfast.  This will undoubtedly be different for everyone, but I find my easiest fasts are from breakfast to breakfast.  So I will eat breakfast one day and then nothing until breakfast the next (à la ESE).  I find that his way I have all the energy and concentration I need during the fasting day, then I continue fasting while I am asleep and wake up to a nice breakfast the next morning.  Easy breezy.

I'll keep filling you in as I go.

Cheers,
Adam