Resolutions are great, if you stick with them. My preference is to see what continues to emerge in my life and when it appears it's something important to me, I try it for a while to see if it's sustainable. I think intermittent fasting is. It's not for everyone, but so far, I really like it. I'm not going to post links here, but know that if you type that in at Google or YouTube you'll find lots of written and video information.
There are several directions you can go with this, but after researching a bit, I've found what works best for me, so far, is an 18/6 schedule from 2pm-8pm. Fast 18 hours and eat during a 6 hour window. Within those 18 hours to digest, sleep, rest, stay well hydrated, let my digestive system take a break, my body has plenty of time to repair and regenerate new, healthy cells and fight off infection and any other nastiness that comes my way.
The old 'eat a big breakfast,' first thing in the morning. . .or the notion that you've got to have '3 square meals a day' is a long-perpetuated fallacy, right alongside the old outdated food pyramid telling us to eat 6-11 servings of bread, pasta and grains PER DAY!
Come On!! What. . .are we, birds? Or cattle fattening up for the slaughter? Well, eating like that will accomplish the fattening up part, that's a given! If you're a visual person, use the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid as a guide. It's pretty much universally agreed that this is a FAR better, solid, healthy food plan.
Today I'm diligently beginning a new food discipline. I don't want to call it a diet or a lifestyle at this point, but with a little time, lifestyle would be my goal. Someone I know follows their 16/8 plan from 10am-6pm, 5 days a week then, loosens the time frame, but sticks with Mediterranean foods during time spent with family on weekends.
I put this together at 2:30 today I. I'm still working on it (it's a lot of food!) and loving every bite. It's peeled chopped tomato, cucumber, radish, green onion, avocado, sliced kalamata olives, cashews, cilantro. Over this I drizzled a couple tablespoons of really good quality, single source EVOO, sprinkled with a touch of Himalayan pink salt, cayenne, black pepper and juice of 1/2 a lemon. . .and a glass of beet lemonade. It's so good! A piece of Norwegian crispbread would have been a perfect addition, but that felt like too much right now. Later I'll have a little bowl of the Ambrosia I made the other day, with or without some crispbread.
I wish you diligence and success for resolutions you've tackled, or new adventures you've begun..😊..Lin
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