Thank you, Katya! I’m glad you found it helpful. I think you’ll enjoy doing this after you get used to it, or maybe you’ll like it from the very start. It took me a little while.

I have found, after many experiences, that it’s better not to discuss fasting with people who don’t have any input in your life. Despite all the growing support for it, there are still many people who don’t believe in it.

But that’s entirely up to you. They may be a group who are open-minded to it. I have a long time friend who still disagrees with me about it, even though I send her links to the studies done about it. She’s convinced it’s unhealthy, no matter what.

I’m retired now, but when I was working, I took my bicycle to work with me in my van. I rode on my lunch hour. I just didn’t like sitting all day and then sitting for lunch. Of course, if you’re on your feet all day, that’s different. You might want to sit down!

So, I rarely ate lunch with co-workers. I’m a bit of a loner anyway, and if I wasn’t outside walking or riding on my lunch hour, I was reading a book. Plus, I wasn’t tempted to eat something I didn’t want to eat if I wasn’t around food. And trying to fast and being around people eating can be a little difficult.

But if you sit down with them for lunch and they ask why you aren’t eating and you don’t want to mention IF, I would just tell them you’re cutting back, or you aren’t hungry, or you ate a big breakfast. Anything along those lines.

Many people are not enthusiastic about someone else losing weight or getting healthy. Smokers and drinkers who decide to quit run into it all the time when they hang around their old friends.

Good luck! A votre sante! (There should be an accent mark there.)