Why I stopped doing 23/1 intermittent fasting after 3 years

I have several daily and weekly routines. They are the pillars of my life. They give me stability. When something hits me I don’t fall easily. That’s the role they have. They give me peace, strength and serenity.

Every day from Monday

Drink a glass of water and then a coffee.
Learn something new with Youtube.
Write my post on this blog.
Do a lesson on Duolingo.
Sport (except Fridays, which is my day off).
Eat dinner at 6pm.

There is a clear function behind each thing:

Wake up faster.Continuous learning.
Document what I do.
Train my head.
Train my body.
Take more time to work and stay focused.
Saturday is still similar. I get up early anyway and get up at 5:30am.

Learn something new with Youtube.
Write at least one chapter for my book.
Do a lesson on Duolingo.
Go for a 21 km run.
Late belize phone number library breakfast between 10-12 with my wife.
Football match as coach of my 10-year-old son’s team.

Sunday:

Sleep until 8 in the morning.
Do a lesson on Duolingo.
Go for a 13 km run.
Late breakfast between 10-12 with my wife.
Right now I’m spending a few days site migrations: what to do? on vacation (which ends tomorrow). Today is a holiday in Spain and Germany so there’s nothing to do at work level. I woke up anyway because it’s Friday and I want to write these lines. I’m also going to do some exercise exceptionally because due to travel issues by car I couldn’t do it one day last week. That way I’ll have “compensated.” Afterwards my wife and I will probably go for a little run. A short run. It’s started to rain so it might be a little more difficult to convince her.

Back to what I was saying.

The science behind intermittent fasting today fans data cannot provide sufficient evidence to prove that the supposed health benefits of fasting are real.

This is not new to me, but I still kept going for a long time. Then I got what I thought was a cold. Nothing too serious, but since I was sick for three weeks and half of them I couldn’t smell properly and no matter what I ate I couldn’t taste anything, I suspect I got Covid. When I was in the first days of the cold I made the decision not to do intermittent fasting while I was like this because according to studies it is not good to fast when the body is not at 100%. This was also combined with the fact that in the strength exercises I do every day I had the feeling of being at only 80%. I wanted to regain strength and to do that you need to strengthen your muscles. You don’t get that just with training but above all with nutrition by eating protein more than once a day.

I don’t have a cold

Anymore and I have maintained the change in my routine. Now I usually eat for the first time between 13-14 hours (an intermittent fast of 18/6, let’s say). It’s a quartz shake with nuts, dates and dried figs. Afterwards I make myself a latte, which is something I’ve missed these past three years at midday.

I feel stronger. What I’m still having a hard time getting used to is “losing” those 30 minutes each day that I have now when I take a break. Before, I worked practically non-stop from 7:30-17:00 hours.

It seems that I have extended myself more than usual today. These types of posts will help me in a couple of years to look back at the routines I had at that time and why. These are things that would otherwise be forgotten. Not anymore.