The evidence of the benefits continues to accumulate. During the week, I’ll go all day without eating, other than coffee and water. Of course, such articles always say this:
“I suggest people talk to their physician first,” Horne says.
In general, physicians are pretty ignorant about nutrition, and much of what they know is wrong.
If I go about a day without eating, I get brutal migraines.
I am sometimes surprised how good I can feel at the end of a day where I inadvertently managed to neither lunch nor snack.
Other days I feel terrible all afternoon if I haven’t eaten since breakfast.
If I eat breakfast, I get hungry later, probably because my stomach is used to having food in it, but if I don’t eat breakfast (which is usually) I’m fine until dinner.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks about intermittent fasting. I don’t remember the details, but in one of his books, he said he throws a pair of dice every morning. I think he said if the total is 10 (three possibilities, total probability around 1 in 12), he doesn’t eat that day.
Probably a good idea.