Ashley,

I've been on an IF "scheme" since August of 2005. A post of Dr 
deVany's early that month really opened up my eyes and gave me the 
impetus to integrate IF into my life. The benefits have been well 
worth it. My blood work is solid in most areas and outstanding in 
some. Fasting insulin is under 2, which is the lower limit the lab 
can detect. Obviously blood sugar is under control as well, though 
I've got room for improvement. Blood pressure is really under 
control, and this has surprised a lot of nurses and doctors I've encountered.

IF is not a cure for all that ills though.

I'd be careful about trying something so regimented as an alternate 
day pattern. You need more variety than that. The opposite of 
intermittent is chronic. Here is what I've been doing of late: one 
meal a day Monday thru Friday(dinner), and grazing as I feel like it 
on the weekends. This roughly matches my activity pattern; pretty 
sedentary during the week and more active on the weekends. A couple 
of workdays every month I'll have something for lunch. Every couple 
of months or so I'll skip eating for a day and follow up the next 
morning with a small feast(read: I stuff my piehole good) for breakfast.

My body is currently telling me that I need to change it up a bit as 
I'm getting more active during the week.

Dave

At 08:55 AM 4/30/2008, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I'm considering switching to an alternate day eating pattern.
>Basically because even eating once a day is wasting far too much time
>- by the time I've prepared, cooked and cleaned up the mess after a
>meal, I can easily lose 2 or 3 hours in the day.  Now of course the
>real problem is that I'm trying to do too much :)  But unfortunately I
>can't do much about the time pressures I'm under so something has to go.
>
>I'm actually considering eating veg every day and meat alternate
>days.  Depending on what veg that is (eg leafy or root) that would put
>my veg days in the range 0-500 calories, so my meat days would have to
>be about 3500 calories.  Common sense says that as I eat 500g-1kg of
>meat a day, that I'll need 1-2kg of meat on meat days, and I'll also
>need to eat about 200g of fat to avoid rabbit starvation.  I'm not
>sure how long that would take to prepare and eat, but I suspect quite
>a while...
>
>My main concern is that since my adrenal glands are somewhat burnt out
>(can't say how much exactly, but I know they are), that this would put
>too much stress on my body, and instead of getting the benefits of
>intermittent fasting I'd make things worse.  I guess I'd only know if
>I tried though.
>
>Thoughts welcome...
>
>Thanks
>Ashley