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More often than not, I’m a motivated self-starter who sees things through to completion. I enjoy setting and achieving personal goals, and value lifelong, long-term learning.
Right now I seem to be in a slump.
I would really like to try out intermittent fasting. But I can’t for the life of me keep discipline enough to make it work. Whether it’s an 18 hour fast with a 6 hour eating window, a one-day fast, whatever it is, I have an almost panicked I-need-to-eat-now period.
I’ve done detoxes and various abstinences from indulgences before, and though they were never super easy (and I would argue a huge point is for them to not be easy), I’ve never struggled quite so much before.
And, I don’t think it’s the fact that it’s intermittent fasting. I just feel like I’m in a slump of my usual sense of discipline and drive.
So what to do? Tips and tricks for getting back on track?
I appreciate you all!
Ok...this sounds hokey as Hell, but it works for me! Read The 5 Second Rule...the first like 40 pages feels like a long Amazon add but once you get to the essence of it (actually 3 works better than 5 for me personally) the concept is super applicable to your daily internal struggles!
My first advice for you is: learn everything you can (from trustworthy sources) about intermitent fasting, including the risks. Perhaps you've already done that, but I figured I should reinforce that anyway. Fasting can have health benefits and intermitent fasting helps loose weight. But you need to be very careful because it's stressful to the body. There's a study with thousands os people that found out those who do 8-hour time-restricted eating schedule have a 91% higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease (8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death | American Heart Association)
Second advice: I think for discipline it help if you identify how you usually achieve your goals. For example, I like challenges. So if I want to develop a habbit and have the discipline to follow through, I usually set a specific goal for a specific period of time, like 30 days of yoga. I've done that before and it helped me a lot to practice everyday. Without the 30-day challenge, I simply cannot keep it up and eventually just give up. I have laerned that about myself and now I can use it to my advantage. So I advise you to identify your motivation profile and work with it.