Jan 7 - on the previous evening I had spontaneously decided to start this new way of living. Jan 7 was the first day of work after the Christmas break. It turned out to be a medium-intensive work day, not bad at all for a "no eating" day.
Making breakfast for the loved ones wasn't too hard. Of course the smells of food do get your mouth watering, but a cup of tea cured this nicely.
During the work day, I usually find it hard to break for lunch anyway - too much to do - and on Jan 7, I didn't have to. Very convenient! :) No problems. Had just 2 or 3 good(!) espressi during the day, and of course several cups of tap water.
Not feeling queasy or cold. And tomorrow I can eat anything I want!! :)
Jan 8 - the first "feasting day" of the new way of living. Waking up with an unusually clean mouth. Obvious, if you haven't eaten dinner you don't salivate during the night. No, I was neither ravenous nor weak, actually the first fasting day makes me feel quite good the morning after.
During the day, I was actually eating a little less than I usually would, but savoring it more, knowing that tomorrow is going to be another zero day. No "pig eating". Interesting -- I did expect some of this at least. Seems I am currently rather comfortable (or have too many fat reserves to really care)...
But will I feel like stuffing myself shortly before going to bed? No such feeling came up. Had a normal small and low-carb dinner, with a little wine to celebrate the first "01" cycle of probably many to come.
Jan 9 - second zero-day. No surprises. Good coffee, some water.
Jan 10 - business lunch. OK, today is a feasting day, no problem, I can eat. Well, if I couldn't, this would be awkward. You don't want to tell business partners you're not eating anything when you take them for lunch. Will need to think about how this is going to work mid-term. Will I swap 0 and 1 days? Will I just take a super-light meal? What are the critical factors to make this work?
Being a nerd and so, I want to read more about this diet. I want to understand why and how it is supposed to work.
Purchased ebooks "Morgen darf ich essen, was ich will" ( http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00B16WZVO/ ) by Austrian seminar cabarettist B. Ludwig, which describes the 10in2 diet, and "The Every Other Day Diet" ( http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00DS9G2GQ ) by K. Varady. Started reading The EODD first, since I had been triggered by the 10in2 book already.
This is going well! And a little walk (10K steps) to help the fat-burning effect.
Jan 12 - Have read the EODD book and liked it a lot. It is, well, typically American, not just the recipes - which I probably will never use, but they do sound tasty :) - but the entire style of writing. BUT she gives a lot of clinical or scientific detail, which makes me feel quite confident about the accuracy of her writing.
She also argues, amongst other things, why doing an entire zero-calories-day is not as good as doing 25% of regular calory intake. I have found two reasons rather compelling:
a) doing zero calories may be too hard for many people to stick to the routine. I guess that's true (not from my personal experience, but from some comments about this diet on the Internet), but it may still be preferable to do if one can. Right?
b) Eating zero will more easily lead to muscle reduction. Animal testing obviously indicated that with a 0%-EODD, mice lose several % of their weight loss in muscle mass, while with a 25%-EODD, virtually the entire weight loss is in body fat. Worth a thought! - Though I will stick to 10in2 == 0%-EODD until I have read the other book as well, and until I have started losing some serious "pieps" :)
Have started a little logbook for daily measuring - will log kilograms, % body fat, % body water, and % body muscle mass. Starting with 93,7 - 31 (ouch!) - 50 - 38.
This was a feasting day. I like feasting days. But I did avoid overeating with no problem, and went low-carb in the evening. Just should get a little more than 6,5 hours of sleep...
Jan 13: 0#4. No significant hunger signs until evening. Circulation is fine, feet are warm, no headache. Either my body really likes this diet, and I have plenty of energy depots available (the latter, unfortunately, is not an "if"), or something's wrong with me. I don't think there is.
Looking ahead on the calendar for "trouble days" - i.e. when fasting collides with social eating. One coming up Friday - another customer visit, onsite, and I should eat with them. OK, this is a chance to test a "500 calory" meal. Will be interesting to do.
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