Intermittent fasting for the weeks or so.
I’m 15 hours into a fast. Wow up at 5:30 inexplicably. Ate too much chocolate the day before. Work stress. Money stress. The kids are yelling, already had coffee, and I’m so, so, so effing hungry.
Am I going to make it to 16 hours? Can I dig deep, practicing some sort of internal meditation while keeping two kids from punching each other?
…Nope. Not today. There’s not even healthy food in the fridge, so I scarf down some leftover chicken and rice and start my day.
15.5 hours looks so ugly on my fasting app. However, I know that it’s just one moment in time and that the success / failure is not binary.
I’m eating a bigger dinner tonight. Loads of veggies, to make the journey feel a bit easier tomorrow morning.
In it for the long haul…
Do your best every day. Some days are harder than others. At the end of 30 days, 90 days…, you will be rewarded.
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Personally, I have been at it (doing strict keto and IF) since January, 2021, so a bit more than a year. It gets easier over time but I still occasionally have cravings. Keep at it.