I have history of diabetes in my family ( south asian) I took the 23andME test and the report said i have a pre-disposition to diabetes at around age 50. I am 50 now. I have been working out running most of my life but started doin less miles and i packed on a few pounds maybe i was like 188-192 and i am 5' 11" About 2 years ago i was diagnosed with pre-diabetes the doctor said you need to get you A1-C down. I was like i have been working out all my life and now this! ok so i started looking into IF ( found some good videos by Dr Jason Fung) so i tried it and started not having breakfast ( I was eating a chocolate croissant from trader joes typically) i went black coffee. Giving up breakfast was damn hard after 6 months i got used to it so the next jump was giving up lunch i got hunger pangs and it was very very painful NOT to eat lunch but to my surprise i got used to NOT eating lunch and fast forward 2 years today i fast all day and my first meal is 5pm and usually a big salad and i feel fantastic all the hunger pangs are gone now i don't know how to explain it but water is sweeter and even black coffee taste sweet to me i am down to like 170 now and have an unusual mental clarity from NOT eating i know it sounds funny but i just do. Headaches go away. IF worked for me and i tell all my friends to at least try it and if you don't feel better than stop. SO I eat around 5pm and last meal and maybe a snack around 9pm. I don't eat after 9pm until the next day 5pm. Next goal is to try a 48 hour fast wish me luck. I feel f-in fantastic! -2cents.
This is something I've started noticing with IF too. Depending on where I am with my fast a glass of water can come across as very sweet, cloyingly. But not sweet like glucose/fructose (sugar). More like an impression of sweet or maybe like a diet soda.
I hate when it happens because I don't like the flavor at all and need to force myself to finish my water at that point. For some reason it usually happens at the end of the day for me. It's usually gone by morning.
And it can't be something in the water because I switched to reverse osmosis RO filtered water like a year ago because I'm quite sensitive to flavors in water.
Having a remote job was what initially helped me get over the breakfast and lunch humps you mention in this well written post. I'm not sure I would have gotten to my current IF stasis if not enabled by that. Thanks for taking the time to write this post.
