It’s been around 25 years since I started skipping food. Usually for days at a time. Recently, I went on an open-ended doxastic fast, which lasted over 18 days and turned out to be one of the most enjoyable things I’ve ever done (I tweeted about it over here). In this missive, I will share some of my experience fasting, but – as always – this is NOT advice. AH, YES. — Akilah Aije Carvajal (@AijeCarvajal) April 4, 2018 I began my experiments with fasting when I was barely a teenager. Some of it was about building discipline and proofing myself with blood in the game, but I was primarily motivated by getting my physical fitness at a level where I could get girls. Then, as now, I experimented with a variety of diets and workouts. Some weeks I ate only after getting home from martial arts (just before midnight) and only pommes-frites with piles of cheese on top (roughly 1 kg of fried potatoes each dinner). Other times I would cut out fats completely and go all-vegetable. And so on. But let’s keep this strictly about not eating food and leave macronutrients and healthy eating for another time. What Is Fasting? To me, intermittent fasting isn’t fasting. Anything under 24 hours isn’t fasting. Intermittent fasting is just a fancy name for what a natural human diet ought to be like based on evolutionary principles. I would take that even further: no breakfast, no snacking or drink calories, and best just eating a big dinner before bedtime – at whatever time of day that would be. Extended periods of food restriction such as Orthodox lent and as found in yoga practice would probably qualify as well, but for this missive let’s just take fasting to mean ingesting no calories. My … Continue reading How to Be a Superhuman