A second week of 2023 in the books!  And it’s the first of the year I had 100% success in hitting my 18 hour minimum.  If you look at the 140 hours and 57 minutes fasted, and divide by 7 you’ll see that I averaged just over 20 hours fasted.

You can see the exact hours below in the details.  I love looking back at the data and just reflecting on the week.  It’s a coincidence that out of 7 fasts, two of them were exact (18 hours and 12 minutes)!

While looking at the day-to-day, you’ll see my shortest eating window was 11 minutes.  This was a down day where I ate a simple, 500 calorie meal.  These are always eaten quickly.  The next two eating windows were about 6 hours long.

I like to share the details NOT to give you a blueprint to follow.  Instead, it’s to show how much variety can exist in an intermittent fasting lifestyle.  I bend my eating windows to my days (NOT planning my days to a strict diet!).

One interesting thing about this week was I ate pot roast 4 days this past week.  The portions were smaller than a typical meal (and I did eat more than just that!). Why would I eat this 4 days in a row?! Because I was testing Glucose levels with my Continuous Glucose Monitor.  Results to come soon… but it was fun.  I was testing hacks offered from the Glucose Goddess.

I hadn’t made a roast in a long time.  It was so good!!  And actually, even without the hacks, it’s a meal that my body responds well to.  I am soon testing with steak bites and mashed potatoes… I’m curious if I’ll see the same readings with beef and potatoes in different preparation.