Showing posts with label fasting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fasting. Show all posts

Friday, September 30, 2011

Fasting, meal timing and Jet Lag

So, I've moved to Germany for a year, and way back (ok, sometime last year) I remembered reading about fasting as a way to reset a circadian rhythm from Hunter-Gatherer. The actual article that he links to is here, with the "trick" revolving around not eating for 16 hours.

I didn't read the article before leaving, but I remembered the whole fasting deal, so here's what I did:
Day 1: ate at 7:00am CDT.
Day 1: Slept for maybe an hour (broken hour) during the 7 and a half hour flight, probably around 7pm CDT.
Day 2: ate at 8:15am CEST (1:15am CDT). Drank an espresso
Day 2: napped for 15-30min on plane around 10am CEST, drank a coffee at 10:30am CEST
Day 2: ate at 3:00pm CEST (8am CDT)
Day 2: Fell asleep at 4:15pm CEST
Day 3: Woke up at 2am CEST

From this, I don't know if my clock has really been reset or not, being that I pretty much didn't sleep the night of Day 1, and even if I were back in my own timezone, I would have passed out at 4pm after a night of only getting an hour of sleep.

I'm planning on eating at 7am this morning, even though I woke up at 2am. I'm thinking that the timing of breakfast is what's key to resetting this clock.

I'll keep updating until I've decided that I've adapted to the timezone - hopefully only a day or so more.

Update - all times in CEST:
Day 3: Nap from 6:40am to 7am, ate at 7:30am - drank one green tea, Nap from 11:00am to 11:30am
Day 3: ate at 2pm, green tea at 4:30pm, ate at 7:30pm, went to sleep at 8:30pm
Day 4: woke up at 7am, ate at 7:30am had a cup of green tea, drank three glasses of mead and had one bockwurst, and someslamb leg between 11:30am and 2:30pm.
Day 4: felt tired at hell at 4pm, almost fell asleep on the bus ride home, fought through it and didn't take a nap
Day 4: went to bed at 8:45pm
Day 5: woke up at 8:10am, ate at 8:30am had two cups of green tea because I felt like it.