You just gotta get used to longer mornings without food. I would never miss my family dinner, but there’s no reason I need to have a sad breakfast by myself. Just drink lots of coffee/tea/water and keep yourself distracted and you’ll be able to make it past noon.
I just adjust my fasting hours around my family members since we all eat lunch and dinner together on the table, I usually eat lunch with everybody and skip dinner, and if I can’t hold myself sometimes because dinner looks delicious then I just leave the room and go somewhere else or eat with them because it’s okay to sometimes give yourself a break and enjoy the food
Its so hard if your family isn’t supportive. How are they interfering in this case? Gonna subscribe to this post. I’m grateful my mom is supportive but I started to learn not to talk about it and wear baggy clothes lol.
I started at 14:10 so I could eat lunch and dinner. Pretty quickly, I started skipping lunch. Now my wife knows I eat one meal a day. I don’t care what that meal is - if she wants to make an awesome breakfast, cool. That’s my one meal. If she wants to go out to dinner, great. That’s my one meal. I don’t ask her to change her eating habits to match mine. She doesn’t push me to deviate from my plan.
If your meals have good food in them, fasting shouldn’t be too difficult. But if they are instead like what my mum served up when I was a teenager (such as ‘risotto’ that was 90pc rice and little else) then you will end up hungry. If you don’t get the nutrition you need, your body knows it and your hunger cues don’t calm down. Better nutrition helps you sustain fasting easily. What we eat is important, along with when we eat.
You might suit a different schedule, such as 14:10. Try also eating more earlier in the window and less at the end. It might work better since you’re an active person.
Your dinner time is not just a time to eat, it’s a social time. How about halving your serving size at dinner if you ate a bunch earlier in the day? You can still join in then, and be satisfied during the day.
I have a family of 7. In law’s living in, husband 2 teens and a toddler. Our mealtime is usually fixed about 7pm because of kid activities. One of our family members is celiac and others dairy intolerant so adding one more dietary restriction to the mix hasn’t changed too much. No one else is fasting. I basically arrange most of my fasts to begin after dinner, and last until early afternoon the next day. I’m going 20:4. I like the convenience of sleeping through most of the fasting window. if it’s a longer fast like 36 or 42 hours, I let everyone know when I am fasting because… mom responsibilities…. I still have to cook and feed the kids and family but don’t eat anything myself. It’s easier to do that when I am much deeper into my fast (past hour 20 or 24) because my hunger is totally gone after about hour 20 and doesn’t generally come back. I will sit down at the table with water even though I am not eating. I fast through dinner 2 of the 7 days a week.
I have been very open with all the family about my fasting and ketogenic food intake since starting this in July. A lot of nights I make a separate meal because they’re eating pasta or something carbohydrate heavy that’s not going to work for me. I just take care of my own needs without talking about it or calling attention to it. I told everyone my keto regimen and fasting will continue until at least April 2023 and maybe longer (I had close to 90 pounds to lose starting out). I am already 38 pounds down! I am now discussing my keto birthday cake and we are figuring out how to do the holidays with mostly keto stuff.They aren’t super supportive but I’m not getting any resistance either. I’m okay with blazing my own trail.