Many of my friends have taken to intermittent fasting (IF) as a way of a) living a fuller life b) losing weight c) showing how clever they are with their ability to spell ‘intermittent’ d) keeping up with the Joneses and Janeses e) saving on groceries.
Many IF (Intermittent Fasters) have asked me to join their movement. One of them even threw Shakespeare at me, quoting thus, “Truly, thou art damned like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side,” whatever that means. If I don’t fast intermittently, I will look like a badly roasted egg? I was sorely tempted to throw Kipling at him. You know where the poet says, “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs… ”
Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have said, “The best of all medicines are resting and fasting.” I regularly observe intermittent resting (IR), doing no work for 16 hours and then sleeping for the other eight. It works for me. Franklin also said, “He that lives upon hope will die fasting,” but that’s for Intermittent Hopers (IH).
