Day 1

Today I noticed I could go on a day without food for over 12 hours with just one wave of hunger. Dr Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer’s The Fast Diet explains the science behind 5:2 intermittent fasting diet.  There is a mix of anecdotal and scientific evidence explaining how and why it works. The human body is designed to endure famine hence the saying. However, most of us seem to be eating most of the time. We eat when we are hungry, we eat when we confuse hunger with thirst, we eat when we are happy, sad, stressed or depressed. Which is not wrong, but the book further explains how feeding ourselves so frequently affects the health and also the mind.