I did some fasting a few years ago, I don't know if it's the same as the Fasting Diet. Can't say it was very effective in any way.

le nubian, I have intermittent egg revulsion that I attribute to being inversely proportional to the freshness of the eggs, based on nothing but the fact that really fresh eggs I cook myself never make me feel ill.

ETA: although perhaps I should caveat that me being able to eat eggs at all is a relatively recent development and I totally do not understand the mechanism whereby I went from "the smell of cooking eggs gives me a headache, forget eating them, no, not even French Vanilla ice cream" to "an omelet for breakfast every day of the week is A-OK" so I am probably a poor exemplar of the effects of eggs on humans.

I *love* hardboiled and scrambled eggs. Especially when I cook them myself. I wonder if there is something to the Zenkitty powdered egg thing.

I also wonder if there is a random seasoning that I don't like that makes me want to give up the ghost. For example, some curries are nearly the death of me.

I can deal with omelets--with ham and cheese--and sometimes scrambled, but non mixed-up eggs are not done. It's the texture, for me.

I did some fasting a few years ago, I don't know if it's the same as the Fasting Diet.

On the Fasting Diet you eat a normal, healthy diet 5 days a week (like a Mediterranean-type diet) and then 2 days a week you severely restrict your calories.

eta: here was the NPR story from this week:

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No, wait, deviled eggs and egg salad is divine.

I like omelets if there's hot sauce in the eggs. Fucking ruined some other people's breakfasts, though. Never gave it a thought.

Oh, that's nothing like what I did.

mmmm I wish I had some deviled eggs right now!

I have found through obsessively tracking my nutritional intake without really having much of a dietary plan per se that if I eat less than about 1000 calories in a day I feel really bad by late afternoon or so - weak and tired and fuzzy-brained and ready to cry at the drop of a hat. So doing that on purpose two days a week sounds like a really bad idea to me.

A bunch of studies say that regular fasting/calorie restriction is good for your health. Problem is most people find fasting onerous so it's hard to maintain. But just as good is fasting 12 hours every day.