Intermittent Fasting and eating a SNACK every day: Exploring sweet and salty snacks

Learn how much fun intermittent fasting can be while eating a sweet or salty snack every day. Intermittent fasting is easy and fun when you add a weird twist. Each day I fasted for sixteen hours and then I ate two thousand calories of healthy food and a tasty snack...every day for thirty days.

I learned that I can eat a snack every day and not gain weight. I wasn't trying to lose weight this month (January). Instead, I wanted to know if I could eat a snack each day and not gain back the weight I lost when I first started intermittent fasting (I lost 30 pounds in two months).

I learned that it is more fun to install variety into a diet than to stick with the same thing every day. I ate cornbread crisps, lentil snaps, cinnamon apple chips, Twix-flavored popcorn, maple walnuts, coconut chips, freeze dried apple slices, almonds, yogurt covered raisins, asiago pepper jack crisps, tropical fruit trail mix, and a bunch of other tasty snacks. This was a fun month.

The secret to my success this month was intermittent fasting. I consumed calories for eight hours a day (from 10 am to 6 pm) and fasted the evening, night, and morning hours. I also recorded exactly what I ate using the phone app MyFitnessPal. I pay for an annual membership and love knowing exactly what is going into my body, even when I eat cookies or drink a beer. This keeps me from overeating or giving in to a sugar urge at night. I lost 21 pounds in September, and 9 pounds in October, and maintained my weight in November and December. In January, I continued the diet and experimented with snacks. If you want to learn about my fascinating journey, then read this book. This is the fifth book in a series on intermittent fasting:

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