Foodventures

I started intermittent fasting about a year ago and, if you don’t know anything about it, it typically begins with just skipping breakfast and not eating late into the night. If you like numbers, that usually ends up being 16 hours of fasting and a 8 hour eating window (a.k.a. 16/8). Now I don’t know about you, but I never really cared for eating breakfast. I just ate it because it was traditionally viewed as a necessity to a healthy life and metabolism (its old marketing propaganda from big industries during the 20th century like many other “necessities” we hear about growing up). So 16/8 intermittent fasting just sounded like skipping breakfast and that sounds like something I should have already been doing. It was then that I found out that there are levels and, being such a huge fan of games, after a month or two I felt like it was time to go to the next level. That next level was 18/6, which eventually led to 20/4 and an occasional one meal a day. Being an active male meant that I ate around 2500-2700 calories to maintain my weight and being around 165 at 5’11 meant I didn’t really want to lose to much weight. If you do the math (well actually no math at all) that means I had to eat all those calories in 4 hours. Given that I wanted to eat relatively healthy and not eat fast food everyday, meant I had to be able to eat much more volume in a shorter period of time. So that’s what I did. It didn’t cross my mind that it meant my stomach would have to expand and that expansion led to the ability to eat more than I ever could before.

The point of this is that I decided to exercise this newfound ability when venturing out to try as much food as I could. I have a lot of fun and opinions when eating a million things at once so I figured I’d keep track of these “foodventures.”