I sort of have the same things that trigger me too, if I have alot of foods in sight at home that I know I shouldn’t be eating it could get really difficult to stay away.
What’s helped me is building my food plan at night for the day ahead. It gives me a plan to follow so I’m sort of automated and can stay on track.
I use the myfitnesspal website and cellphone app to build my meals for the day ahead.
Stay focused, do a little bit more everyday and you’ll get there.
Are you me?
I have been on IF for 4 years , converted lots of friends into this. Went down to 73 kgs from 97 and then shit happened.
I was diagnosed with Covid, went through hell and got some mental health issues. I started eating junk, drinking and completely let go of myself.
I am back to 89Kgs now. This morning I was in tears as none of my clothes fit again and I am left to rue my choices for the last 6-8 months.
Getting back from today.
Dr Valter Longo who is an expert on fasting, nutrition and longevity warns that it is extremely stressful on the body to have big weight drops and gains particularly more than once. Please try to find something sustainable that works for you even if it takes longer. Be kind to yourself ❤️
I’ve been doing some form of 16:8-18:6 since 2013. This was what happened to me during covid. I managed to gain weight in my 6 hour window, got over weight by 25lbs, basically eating 2 full meals a day and stopped caring about calories and food quality. I didn’t get back on track I started doing OMAD last dec. Even going from 2mad to OMAD was a noticeable difference in how much less I have to plan for eating. Since it’s just one meal the food quality is much higher and more nourishing. Much easier to track calories for me as well. The weight loss is going pretty steady too.
I had a similar experience, lost the weight through IF then gained during COVID through snacking and therefore eating too many calories. I knew I had to change it up to prevent the cycle repeating itself so I took the plunge and cut out foods than contain sugar (cakes, sweets, chocolate etc) and cut down somewhat on white carbs and replaced the sugar/refined carbs with more fruit and veg, more brown rice and wholewheat pasta. I have been following this for 8 months and my weight is back where I want it to be, I am less hungry (giving up sugar makes you less hungry as it avoids the highs and then crashes from eating sugar) and feel much better in myself. Now weight maintaining. Maintenance has always been where in mess up but so far I am 3 months in and stable at my ideal weight. No plans to go back to sugar. A good source of info on YouTube on the perils of sugar when intermittent fasting is Dr Pradip Jamnadas as well as Dr Robert Lustig for the more in-depth detail on why sugar is bad for you.