自除夕以来，我吃的碳水化合物食物特别多，虽然仍然坚持轻断食16+8，但晚上的睡眠质量显然下降了许多，而且那还不是唯一的负面作用，碳水的饱腹率低，吃饭每过2个小时我就感觉很饿。昨天早上9点吃完半碗卤汁河粉，半碗混沌加一个橘子，下午1点半我又吃了一碟河粉+1个香蕉，到晚上7点我把娃的晚饭做好，我饿的不行，于是就吃了3个鸡腿1个肉肠加炒南瓜。令我吃惊的是，平常白天我若吃肉比较多，晚上再吃点就觉得撑，但昨晚的一顿大餐下肚，半个小时之后，我感觉我仍可以再吃2个鸡腿。
早上5：45醒来，想到要等到中午12点才能吃第一餐，我头皮发麻。虽然不后悔昨晚的“晚”餐，但我不知道要怎样来打发这6个多小时而不被饥饿感困扰。好在今天是我的清洁日，赖床一个小时起来一边听音乐一边手洗衣服，本来还想拖地擦窗子，但这些体力活让我觉得越发的饥饿，我看我还是坐着做2个小时西班牙语的课程算了。
到今天为止，我已经坚持了轻断食105天。16+8，就是16个小时不吃东西（喝水不算），剩下的8个小时作为进食时间。为了适应我的作息时间——6：30起床，10：30睡觉，我把早餐时间定在8-9点，中餐时间定在2-3点。刚进行轻断食一个星期，我的睡眠质量大都是五星，看来我这些年来晚餐总是吃到爆肚的习惯把自己害的不轻，多年的焦虑和失眠症可能也有不良饮食习惯的贡献。
Since New Year's Eve, I've been eating a lot more carbohydrate-rich foods. Although I've still been sticking to my 16+8 intermittent fasting, my sleep quality has noticeably declined, and that's not the only downside. Carbs have a low satiety level—every two hours after eating, I feel hungry again.
Yesterday morning at 9 AM, I had half a bowl of braised rice noodles, half a bowl of wontons, and an orange. By 1:30 PM, I was hungry again and ate a plate of rice noodles and a banana. When I finished cooking dinner for my kids at 7 PM, I was starving, so I ended up eating three chicken drumsticks, a sausage, and fried zucchini. What surprised me was that if I eat a lot of meat during the day, I usually feel too full to eat much at night. But after that feast last night, half an hour later, I felt like I could still eat two more drumsticks.
I woke up at 5:45 AM and realized I had to wait until noon for my first meal. The thought made my scalp tingle. I don’t regret last night’s “late” meal, but I have no idea how to get through the next six hours without being tormented by hunger. Luckily, today is my cleaning day. I stayed in bed for an extra hour, then got up and hand-washed some clothes while listening to music. I had planned to mop the floor and clean the windows as well, but these physical tasks just made me even hungrier. I figured I'd better sit down and do two hours of Spanish lessons instead.
As of today, I’ve been doing intermittent fasting for 105 days. 16+8 means fasting for 16 hours (drinking water doesn’t count) and eating within an 8-hour window. To fit my daily routine—waking up at 6:30 AM and going to bed at 10:30 PM—I set my breakfast between 8-9 AM and lunch between 2-3 PM. In my first week of fasting, my sleep quality was consistently five stars. It seems that years of overeating at dinner have done quite a bit of damage to my body. My long-term anxiety and insomnia may have also been influenced by poor eating habits.
