I have been there (literally), I agree that eat mostly of habit and hunger can be easily replaced by water/coffee. My blood sugar would drop significantly though after 24h-36h and I would feel dizzy. Were you drinking sweetened drinks?
Your blood sugar really shouldn't drop while fasting, unless you do aerobic exercise, have a genetic mutation that prevents you from producing glycogen, or have some other kind of glycemic disease.
Agree, keep an open mind and don't be affraid to try. I don't know how to categorize my IF, I've been doing it for 4 years. Tuesday and Thursday a snack at 14 and dinner around 21. Friday night, saturday and sunday I eat whatever I want. All other days just tea or cofee.
Sunday: coffee
Monday: coffee
Tuesday: snack and dinner
Wednesday: coffee
Thursday: snack and dinner
Friday: three full meals
Saturday: three full meals
Are you able to focus by Tuesday? I feel like I would struggle to be productive.
You get used to it after a while. The hardest part I found was social pressure to eat. So much of our culture revolves around eating that it's hard to do IF with any schedule where you leave out dinner time.
So skipping breakfast is super easy (IMHO) and skipping dinner is nigh impossible.
Skipping lunch highly depends on how pressured you feel to eat with your colleagues. I think one meal a day (usually named OMAD) is also not hard if you don't have lunch at work.
Monday coffee (or tea, mostly tea), Tuesday snack and dinner, Wednesday cofee, Thursday snack and dinner, Friday just dinner, Saturday three meals (or more or less) and Sunday three meals (or more or less).
I'm able to focus any day. Some months I do 1 week when I fast Monday, Tuesday and I eat dinner on Wednesday; body reboot.
I began to fast gradually and this is what I consider my optimal IF method.
I feel like the timing of supper is a cultural thing. I prefer to eat later, but it sucks trying to do that in America, unless you want fast food. But I fell in love with Spain because it was honestly the optimal meals times for my body. Wish it was easier to do in America, at restaurants.
That idea has been floating around a lot. It's definitely not outside the realm of possibility, though what makes me think is was human error is the fact that Columbia Gas (company responsible for those lines) publicly announced work on the lines about a week before this happened.
I could also be that a week before the hack started. I know that my line of thinking is very "Mr Robot". Let's hope it's not a hack and it's just human error.