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Newbie, Please get me started

I have been trying to start fasting 8:16 for the last few months but have failed each time. I understand this is still 2 meals and it shouldnt be that hard. I wake up at 5am and waiting to 11am seems unbearable and often we have exams at 8am so dont want to deprive myself of the mental energy. Then I have lunch at the school cafe at 12. If I have back to back patients at that time and cant have lunch, I get so fatigued and hungry by 1pm I feel mentally and physically drained and dont have as much patience with my patients 😂😬 . Then I get home between 5-7pm and feel so starved that I will grab whatever is infront of me WHILE i am cooking dinner and getting my desk ready for more studying. This is why I have gained weight since I started this program. Please help. How can I make fasting work for me and loose that grad school baby fat. Thank you!

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Sounds like you need to allow yourself to get into ketosis first before trying to fast, this will make fasting a lot easier and you will still loose weight, try this for a month then circle back to fasting, you should have more energy and not feel ravenous! Best of luck

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>I wake up at 5am and waiting to 11am seems unbearable and often we have exams at 8am so dont want to deprive myself of the mental energy.

  1. Fasting doesn’t deprive you of mental energy - quite the opposite, people in a fasted state usually report feeling sharper than normal.
  2. The body doesn’t get fatigued that easily. I am on my third day of a fast, and I spent the last two working in a warehouse, hand-bombing heavy rolls of carpet onto and off of a truck. What you’re almost certainly describing is blood sugar spikes and crashes following your meals, not actual hunger/exhaustion.
  3. What are you eating? I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that it isn’t a steak and eggs diet.

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