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Accidentally broke my fast and I feel so awful

I鈥檓 a beginner at IF, today鈥檚 my third day. Been fasting 16-18 hours past two days and I was aiming to fast for 18 hours today, but at the 6th hour mark I accidentally ate a small 1 inch piece of potato trying to check whether it鈥檚 cooked or not馃槶 I鈥檝e been feeling awful can someone people advice if it鈥檚 gonna affect my fast badly or do I just continue the fast Any help appreciated please

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Just keep going. You are 3 days in. I have been doing this 5 years. One day, one bite like you said, will not derail your long term goals so long as you stay consistent over the long term. Does not need to be perfect but it does need to be consistent.

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I鈥檓 doing rolling 48s right now. It鈥檚 been only for a week, but hell, how often can a human being eat something by accident!? Almost every second day, when it was food-day I prepared the meal in the morning and was supposed to eat it at the evening, but tried way too often by accident. I felt like a cat someone is trying to keep away from thuna someone spilled on the floor. I spit it out if I realise it, if not, so what? It doesn鈥檛 kill me and neither does it kill you. You will get used to ur fasting schedule and it won鈥檛 happen anymore. And if it does, look two sentences before. Stay strong!

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Don鈥檛 beat yourself up over this. Stuff happens. You鈥檙e human.

IF is a process that can make you more aware of how you eat and why. You don鈥檛 need to toss guilt in there. If anything, guilt will make the learning process harder.

All of us fall short when we measure ourselves against perfection.

So just keep going.

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If you let little bitty things like that affect you, you are almost certainly going to burn out and fail.

You鈥檝e got to roll with the punches and constantly recommit. Focus on things that actually matter. Anything under 30 calories is not worth caring about