Hello!
I’m sorry if this question got asked before! My question for all you experienced troopers out there is, how do you get over your urges? Tl;dr at the bottom
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I’m on day 1, and already failed because I gave into my urge to eat. I feel like a huge, huge failure now, because I’ve been trying to start a fast for 2 weeks but I simply can’t seem to do so.
As of right now, my biggest hurdle is getting started. I have all of my supplements ready & on the table, electrolytes at the ready as well, and plenty of tea packets to get me through the day. But this morning, I got overwhelmed, and caved into breakfast. Even though I’ve set myself for only a couple of hours long fast.
You might be thinking I’m new to it, but I’ve actually been fasting before a lot - IF & 3 days were my longest and it wasn’t difficult. I’d do a longer fast every week, I loved it, and I always loved the results! Then I fell back into my older eating habits for about a month and a half, regained more weight than I had before my weightloss journey, and now I’ve been finding it hard to even start and get back to where I was. Even IF feels overwhelming, I constantly have the need to eat something
For example: I’ll try to have a filling keto meal for dinner, but in the morning, the urges are right back again. So I cave & eat. I don’t want to skip out on delicious food, I feel like this want for food wins over every time, but at the same time I love fasting and want to do this for it’s many health reasons.
(Also, I’ve been thinking of going keto for a week but unfortunately, my spouse doesn’t agree - I cannot fully commit to a keto diet due to having to cook for everybody in my family and having limited time so I cannot cook for myself separately. Either way, I never did keto before and was able to fast without issue)
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Does anybody have any piece of advice? If you’ve gone through a similar hurdle, were you able to overcome it & what steps did you take?
Thanks for reading! :)
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TL;DR: Can’t resist the urge to eat so I cave in first thing in the morning. I used to do fasts before but now I can’t get back into it. How do you get over/push through these urges? How do you get over the almost primal-like want to eat delicious food? Thanks!
Eat keto meal for breakfast for 5-7 days.
Lower the size of meal each day.
Eventually the urge will go away.
Focus of harm reduction.
Don’t be too hard on yourself.
Maintain a positive relationship with food.
I used to cook easily prepared meals. So, it would take me on average 30 minutes to make a meal. I would fry up some meats, heat up some frozen veggies, add cheese and sauce and I was good to go. I also would cook things in the slow cooker. I often bought rotisserie chicken, and just had that with one of those veggies you steam in the microwave. I didn’t have a lot of time, so that is how I did it then.
When I had more time, I would cook a lot of protein, chicken, pork or beef, whatever I bought in bulk. Then I would freeze them in portions. When I needed to eat, I would pull out that cooked portion, and then I would have my frozen veggies :)