What Does Dan Do, VII

3 Rounds for time
     Run 400m
     10 Hanging Power Snatch, 95/65
     15 Squats

Fasting/Intermittent Feeding

After a recent trip I felt the need to “IF” the next day and get my body systems back on track. Eating out, eating at abnormal times, sleeping less than normal, high stress, heat, lack of water… had all conspired to make me feel kind of raunchy. What a great word.

I was questioned about what “IF” was and then why I would do that. I have a history of fasting and have found that my body responds really well to having a break from food. I normally “fast” a meal or two each week out of as much convenience as anything else, but it’s also with the idea in mind that depriving the body of food can be good. I skipped dinner breakfast and then had a (small) late lunch. It was just what I needed and felt really good.

Intermittent Feeding sounds radical. It’s not. We talk about living “Primal” or like a caveman quite a bit. In the pre-agriculture age, before barns and storehouses, it makes perfect sense that if the kill didn’t happen on time, dinner would get delayed for a day or maybe more and that the human body would need to accommodate this likely event.

Read the linked article about the two monkeys that were fed differently over the course of their lives. This isn’t intended to be definitive research but it is a very interesting thing to ponder. Maybe eating to our fill isn’t the best thing. Maybe we are just used to feeling full or maybe our definition of full is deranged.

I encourage you to test out fasting and intermittent feed and see how your body responds.