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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here.  For those who have been doing IF, a couple questions...

1.  Did you just jump right into it and fast for 2 days?  How rough a start is it?  I work and have young kids and worry about being angry and/or unfocussed.
2.  If you fast for entire days or multiple days, do you also exercise?  Only exercise on days you eat?  Or don't exercise at all?

Thanks.[/quote]

I've been fasting on and off for a couple of years doing 5:2. Yes, I jumped right in. My routine is coffee with cream in the morning, but nothing more until dinner. I drink a lot of water, have herbal tea, sometimes a cup of chicken bullion. For some reason salt seems to help on fasting days - I got headaches when I first started, and the chicken bullion helped a lot. I try to stay to 500 calories on fast days, so for me that is the coffee plus a dinner with lots and lots of vegetables and a piece of protein - chicken breast, an egg, something like that. If I have a few calories left over I'll have a few chocolate chips. During the rest of the week (my non-fast days) I eat the number of calories I can eat a day without gaining weight, which is about 1500 for me. I do most of my exercising (yoga, climbing wall, hiking, kayaking) on the weekends, and I eat normally on the weekends.

Part of what I had to get my head around was mental. I realize some people get dizzy and cranky when they are hungry, but I found I don't have to (but truly, people are different. IF is not a good fit for many people). When I started to see hunger as any other feeling in my body, and not an existential emergency I had to respond to, I stopped feeling so bad when I was hungry. I remind myself that people have always had times of hunger, and they didn't start swooning and hollering when they couldn't bring down a buffalo. They carried on. So basically I told myself to suck it up. Which works for me, but which isn't necessarily helpful for others![/quote]

This is disordered and unhealthy, period.  Sure, it's a fad now, but it is NOT healthy by any means.[/quote]

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