For context I’ve been fasting since late 2018-early 2019. Started off with 16h fasts and worked my way to OMAD(1h eating window). Went from 106kg to 80 over the course of all this.
Since April this year things have been rough and I’ve been fasting irregularly and have been eating waay more than required(am 85kg atm) and it’s kind of making me depressed. Combine this with the fact that I now live with my parents who keep telling me that I’ll die if I don’t eat 3 meals a day(am exaggerating just a tad) and try to keep forcing food down my throat it’s very hard to fast even for 20 hours. I used to be able to do 3-7 day water fasts(with electrolytes ofc) but now I can barely do 24h.
I used to be able to watch cooking videos/mukbang videos or just videos of food in general without it affecting my desire to eat but now I keep thinking about food during fasts.
Any tips/tricks/thoughts? I want to get back to OMAD or even 36h fasts, while trying to eliminate refined sugar.
Thanks and osrry if this sounds ranty.
I empathize with your struggle. I’m getting back on the IF wagon again after falling off of it for a couple of years. My plan is to start small and build on victories. This is Day 3. My Day 1 goal was simply no dairy. In doing that I also unintentionally pulled off an 18 hour fast so that was just a bonus. Yesterday I went to a wedding where the wedding meal was pizza and I’ll be lucky to pull off a 12 hour fast. But the important lesson from that was to always know what I would do in those situations.
My advice is to start small and build on those victories and to always have a plan in situations where you’ll be out of your element.
My wife is a real 3 squares a day kind of gal so she gives me some grief about me “starving” myself but that’s just because she loves me and thinks she’s doing the right thing. Your parents are the same. Try adjusting your eating schedule to times when they’ll see you eating. That may help.