LACK OF MOTIVATION!!!

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For me, I tell myself how mad I’m going to be at myself for not trying harder if I quit/ don’t start and that really if I’m honest food is not making me happy or keeping me entertained. Then I remind myself how good I feel when I look a certain way. At the end of the day you have to have a “just do it” attitude. Good luck!

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1. Have an important goal in mind (health, fitting into a piece of clothing you love, whatever works for you but make it big)
2. Stay distracted (and I cannot emphasise this enough) - eating out of boredom is a constant issue for me, and I believe others will agree. Even while fasting, boredom is often what breaks me. Stay busy, busier than usual. Fasting gives you back lots of hours you’d normally spend looking up recipes, shopping for food, cooking, eating, doing the dishes etc. With all that time back, be ready to use it for something. Otherwise, it will come and bite you in the back.
3. Sleep when you feel tired. It helps to pass the time, recharge a little bit and get rid of the hunger pangs.
4. Drink electrolytes. Sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, I always seem to procrastinate drinking them because I feel so good in the first 2 days, but many times I wait until it’s too late. Better to start early.

That’s it for now, but will edit if I remember any other useful information. Good luck!

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Yiu are already motivated. You just need to figure out how to move thru the resistance.

What will your life be like a year from now 2 years if you continue down this path,?

I started fasting to control for diabetes. It runs on my family we all get it after a certain age.

So I measured my glucose levels I brought them down from 130 1st thing in the morning to 70 to 80.

Yes I lost weight but I didn’t eat until my glucose levels dropped below 80 for the day. That is how I started. It was more motivation to watch the glucose drop than to measure by the scale or clothing. I needed more immediate feedback.

I worked with my Dr on this path & he was very resistant at first but now he is a fan. We go over results each time and he tells me I have changed his views on weight loss and fasting. He did his research as well.

I am also motivated by the people I inspire because I chose a path and stuck with it.

You can veer of the path occasionally.. I know I have. I just come back to fasting and enjoy the journey

I use phrases like…. this is not my food … when out socially. I have to talk to myself to over come the resistance.

90% is just showing up and finding how to move thru the resistance called …. I wanna eat now! 😋

Good luck on your journey

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A month is too long! Your body will suffer for it! The longest I ever fasted was 2 weeks, and I work up to that long over a 4 year period. When fasting, your body will burn off fat reserves first, then it go after muscle tissue, then internal organs, then finally the brain! It takes preparation for long term fasts. I was advised by a holistic Doctor to take a high B vitamin complex to protect nerve and brain function. As well as a vegetable powdered laxative so the liver pancreas and splean can do there thing and my small and large intestines doesn’t weaken. If you don’t prepare properly a long term fast CAN kill you! Don’t believe me, search the history books, and ask adolf Hitler’s concentration camp victims. American Army Soldiers found this out the hard way, when an act of mercy proved fatal.