I think this is my biggest problem. I can deal with hunger and lightheadedness, but due to my job I cannot be uncontrollably moody and irritable. I work with people. But I can easily snap at and bite peoples heads off or be incredibly short with people without meaning to or immediately realizing it when I do this diet.
Anyone know any tricks to deal with that?
yeah you know this one’s always been the toughest and I would also like to hear anyone’s had any successful strategies with it.
I mean, even back when I used to just not eat while working to warehouse jobs to cut after living off of beer and cream soups for a while I had a decent time because I didn’t have to talk I could just lift boxes in front. much like you now I have to interface with people and also have a toddler who doesn’t understand the crabby adults. I think there’s no real tricks you just have to start figuring out what your level of mental resources are with respect to the point in the fast you’re in.
what I am going to try to do cuz maybe every hour or two hours that I’m on duty I take about 5 to 10 minutes and focus on nothing including hunger.
I tend to like those binaural sounds for this. other than that because you can’t really do stuff like that when you’re in the middle of three meetings that go for 4 hours total I try to focus on some metaphor of doing a long distance run to help Pace my mental energy. I would hate to be managing other people while doing this diet though because I would be a terrible asshole.
I really miss the fasting I could do when I was freshly broken up out of a relationship lol. The energy of spite can really drive a person.
if your situation domestically is anything like mine you won’t be very well supported to begin with so I won’t go in anything like asking others to watch your kid for you more because that’s unrealistic and isn’t an actual trick.