Hi I am 29M, I am obese for my height. I’ll pretty much start panting once I do anything and I noticed I was mouth breathing which I am trying to give up. I want to start IF but my eating habits and timing’s are pretty messed up as in I’ll eat once a day when I get time and I’ll eat what’s available or whatever is easy to make or I’ll just eat nothing. It’s been like this for past 5 years. I want to change everything, Is there anyone who’s been through the same routine who adopted IF can you guys guide me or anyone who can understand my situation and help me in figuring IF out. And my working hours are 6am- 9pm on weekdays thankfully from past two weeks I’m forcing myself to take weekends off to get a life.
Thanks in advance for any help
What do your drinks look like? Before IF, I’d frequently only “eat” once a day but my day was filled with high-calorie coffee drinks, sweetened tea or kombuchas, etc. I drank a lot of calories and was spiking my insulin all the time.
If you like sweet drinks, buy zero calories one at start. But usually water or a good tea is better after a while. Definitely make sure you drink enough water, it helps regulate your cravings and you don’t mistake cravings for food with being dehydrated.
Definitely set up some plan to make regular eating times, it helps set a pattern and make it easier to manage and forget about it after a while, it becomes a habit. Don’t beat yourself if you fail once or twice, just be consistent and try again with more resolve.
In my case reading calories helped me stop eating a lot, at start used some standard note and pen, but now switched to apps that can record products by bar codes. Don’t worry that you eat too much at start, being aware of your diet and what you like, dislike and how much of that you eat helps a lot to set up some plans in motion. Just make sure to record everything.
FYI I’m also a guy who likes to eat a lot. Right now at 120kg, down from 123. Used omad to get down from 115 to 104, but had health problems, stress eating on exams, many different reasons and abandoned it for a while… Getting back to IF helped me a lot to get back a good mindset. Just don’t see setbacks as failures, just come back stronger with new resolve each time the success will be inevitable. Good luck.