60-plus and Since I Started Intermittent Fasting, The Most Curious Thing Has Happened
I wasn’t expecting this at all
I’ve fought a losing battle with my weight since hitting 40 when, after being at a comfortable 12 1/2 stones ( 80 kilos) for years, the pounds slowly started to pile on.
They continued to pile on until I hit 16 stones ( 101k) in my 60s.
I’m six feet tall so I can sort of get away with it, but there was no escaping what I saw in the mirror. Or that fact that my clothes were tighter, and I was fastening my belt buckles on the next notch up.
In January after seeing a post online about intermittent fasting, I thought I could give it a go.
It didn’t look hard.
Just don’t eat for 16 hours and 8 of those are when you’re asleep.
What could be easier?
The next day on a whim, I decided to skip breakfast and not eat until about two in the afternoon.
I did the first week and, I won’t lie, it was easy. No hunger pangs, no slump in energy, no craving for sweet things to give me an energy boost.
I could hardly wait to climb onto the scales at the end of that week.
