I started the Intermittent Fasting (IF) diet last week (28 March 2007).

The experience during the last week has been interesting and mixed. It has certainly been more positive than negative. I feel more alert and focused on the days I do not eat and more numb and tired on the days I do eat!

You might imagine I should stop eating altogether as that is when I feel best but then the cream cake fantasies creep in... and being a bit of a hedonist I'm not about give up food!

Oddly enough on the days I am not eating I do not feel as hungry as I thought I would. I do get some thoughts of 'I'd like to eat....' and then I tell myself 'I will have it tomorrow and anything else I want'.

Then when I do get to eat it isn't the gluttony you might expect (well not at first). I end up opting for healthier foods. Some paranoid voice, in my head, tells me 'you must get your nutrients now when you have the chance'.

I end up stuffing lots of carbs in at the last minute. I feel entitled. I have earned it but oddly don't really feel like it after eating all the heatlhy food. I hope I can get over this next week or the week after...