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Does Intermittent Fasting Work If You Really Love Food?
Here’s what I learned about my cooking and eating habits while trying it
By now, you’ve probably heard about intermittent fasting, a structured eating schedule where you consume food within a specific window of time, usually between the middle of the day and early evening.
As someone who takes a lot of pleasure in cooking, eating, and dining out, I was determined to hate intermittent fasting at first. It just didn’t seem to fit my life in Washington, D.C., which includes late-night dinners in restaurants, experimenting with complicated recipes, and enjoying a hearty breakfast, my favorite meal of the day, on Saturday mornings.
Yet here I am almost two months in, a slimmer but still quite passionate eater on the intermittent fasting bandwagon, not the emotional eating runaway train.
Intermittent fasting presents a few challenges, but just like any good recipe, with a few modifications, it can be effective and manageable. Now that I’ve hit my stride with it, I wanted to reassure other cooks and dedicated diners who might be thinking about trying it that they can do it. Here’s what I’ve noticed and liked about it so far:
