It is definitely easier to fast during lockdown as you don’t need to break a fast if invited out.
I don’t tell anyone what I eat or if I fast as I don’t want their opinion, I’m happy and healthier than I have even been in my life.
I have been living OMAD for over 3½ years. Lost my weight in 6 months, and maintained.
I feel a lot more zen than the old days. I can definitely relate to the sunset thing. I love to walk and hike. I notice things - the water rushing in a river, my dog being a goofball, how blue the sky it.
I’ve run on and off. I find myself much calmer. If I keep my shoulders back and gaze up at the clouds, I remember staring at them as a kid and seeing things. I’ll enter a state I call runners high, where I’m just absorbed in looking and seeing things / kind of day dreaming. My feet keep moving on their own. It’s very pleasant.
My heart rate is pretty low now. Low to mid 50s. (Funny when I eat it shoots into the 80s, and falls a couple hours later).
I’ve experimented with mindfulness meditation and enjoy that occasionally.
Yes, enjoy me time alone much more. But still enjoy time with family and friends, maybe not as much. But I’d say I’ve gained much more than I’ve lost as far as being happy and healthy.
The time and money I save on an extended fast amazes me. I am currently on day 7 of a 14 day fast and loving it. However, I am also alone which is rare. I am not sure I could do this if my family were here. They are obsessed with food and it is constantly out. They will leave bacon on a plate on the counter after breakfast, appetizers out by 3, and baked goods under a cloth on the counter. The baked goods are usually keto but still… too easy to snag some. Further more, they make so much food, good food, leftovers sit in fridge and I feel guilty if they go to waste. I have managed to start freezing anything left more than 2 days. Had to buy an upright 20 cubic foot freezer. lol