Looking for advice for longer than 24hr fasting when you have a spouse and 2 young kids who are not fasting and your kids are always asking you for food, even when their mom is in the next room and would feed them in a heartbeat.
It’s like my kids are subliminally trying to reprogram me to keep my own food addiction. I tend to break around 18-20 hrs when mentally strong, other days, I eat with them. I’m gaining weight, moving in the wrong direction.
Trying to break through to 48hr, 72hr or longer. I’ve done 72 in the past. Trying to figure out why I’m struggling now. Any advice will be very helpful and appreciated!
CW: 157, GW: 145, 5’5”
I’m a believer that you should fast around your life instead of living around your fast; the more organically it meshes with what’s important the better the chances it will work long term.
It could be that OMAD is the most sensible thing you could do for now. All you need to do is skip breakfast and you are Scott free until you get back from work and ready to eat. You also need to talk to your kids, they need to learn boundaries anyways and it is not unreasonable that they don’t come to you for food and in fact keep their snacking away from you. You could even ask for a personal evening a week to be left mostly undisturbed, then return the favor to your wife on a different day of the week.
Also cardio is a fast multiplier; the sooner you empty your glucose reserves the faster your fast benefits kick in.
It’s like anything else, it just takes practice to cook and not eat. When I’m fasting, I still have “meals” with my kids, I just drink water. Plus, you’re setting a good example of self-control and delayed gratification for them.