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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ashley Moran" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: Anyone here do intermittent fasting?


> On 30 Apr 2008, at 19:17, Lisa Sporleder wrote:
>
>> I cook lots of stuff in those times when I'm doing other things 
>> somewhere near the kitchen and can just give something a stir every  5-10 
>> minutes without devoting much attention to it.
>
> Unfortunately that's my problem, there's no way I can concentrate on  my 
> job (computer programmer) with food in the oven as it takes me  longer 
> than 10 minutes to get my concentration back if I have to go  and see to 
> something else.
>
>
>> I bake chicken a family pack at a time...put meat in pan, put pan in 
>> oven, set timer, don't think about until timer goes off...lunches  for 
>> the week.
>
> Again, it's a nice idea if you eat in the day but I would end up  eating 
> this as a single day's food...
>
>> As for roasting, my indispensable kitchen tool is the programmable  meat 
>> thermometer.  You set the thermometer for the temperature that  you want 
>> to take the roast out of the oven, poke the probe into the  roast, put 
>> the roast in the oven, and when the thing starts beeping,  take the roast 
>> out.  The probe attaches by a thin, flexible cable to  the temperature 
>> setting/beeper part, which is magnetic and sticks to  the side of my 
>> stove.  No more checking on the roast, no more  overcooking because I got 
>> busy doing something else.  Wipe off the  probe and cable with a damp 
>> cloth after use, and it's ready to go  again.  It was a little pricey, 
>> but so worth it!
>
> Sounds like a good idea!  Unfortunately the house I'm in now is not 
> really suited to it - the oven that works is 2 floors down and there  are 
> 3 fire doors between us.  Any oven thermometer I could hear in my  room 
> would probably be loud enough to kill a small mammal.
>
>
>> If I had to cook a full-fledged meal every day, I'd end up eating  crappy 
>> foods that my body doesn't handle well.
>
> I find the opposite! When I snack I end up eating worse stuff, or at 
> least much less variety, and don't bother to prepare veg.
>
>
>> If eating through the day and not eating after about 3 p.m. means  I'm 
>> doing IF, then that's what I'm doing most of the time.
>
> I think it depends on the size of your eating window.  If you are  eating 
> 9-3 your eating window is 6 hours so your fasting window  (assuming you 
> don't drink any calorie-rich drinks in the evening) is  18 hours. 
> Currently my split is usually 5/19 to 3/21.
>
> If I ate every other day I'd probably have two meals that day - so I'd 
> have a 6 hour eating window and a 42 fasting period, which is double  what 
> I have now.  (I might do the veg every day thing though).
>
>> But check out that programmable meat thermometer!  Simplifies  roasting 
>> considerably.
>
> Will do, thanks.
>
> Ashley
>
>