Hi all, Newbie here, just stumbled into this forum this morning (m in Australia).i posted this in another section sorry if thats not allowed so remove this admin if you need to. So to date, I have had pretty much no success. Not this time anyway. Used IF and keto previously in my life with great success. This time… Im older… Im studying now as a mature age student, high pressure. Long hours driving , single parent… But I am beginning to realise the way I was doing keto and IF wont work for me anymore. I was always a sneaky cheater working out all the ways I could get around things… Doesnt work anymore and have seen the scales skyrocket over the last 18 months since the beginning of study ( masters degree). Also not training due to injury anymore. I guess now Im older, hormones maybe changing, likely insulin resistant… But I guess what I am beginning to realise is also is how hard I am finding it to not do shortcuts. SO everyday I wake up and say “I’ll do 24 hrs fast today” and then by the end of the day around 3-4pm I am freaking starving . I end up caving and nibbling or eating, not bad stuff, chicken and veggie soup or a bacon with eggs etc . I RARELY go over my caloric intake and even if I go over carbs, Im not snacking on rice potatoes and sweets, the worst it gets is a slice of apple with peanut butter if I crave a sweet thing or a keto cheesecake. I do wake up to have a BP coffee, which for me consists of 2 tspn ( not tblsp) butter, 7gm of coconut oil and a little splash of coconut cream, I just havent had the stomach to consistently do black coffee on its own. You might find this so silly, but how do I find the inner will and courage to either do 24-48 hr fasts. I hear that if you are quite insulin resistant that you need a longer fast period for the insulin to reset /body to use the stores. Any tricks you have to change my mindset would be appreciated because my issue I realise is mental/psychological block here and because my old tricks aren’t working it feels like I am constantly failing and CANT lose it. Its devastating me. I just secured an internship for a week for a major art gallery and I NEED to be able to fit into some of my old fancy clothes for it. You’d think that would be motivation enough wouldn’t you ? I have roughly 26 pounds to lose as a first goal and then another 8 as my final goal. Im tired of all of this. Im 43 so yes my hormones are changing a bit but I really dont want to buy into the idea that I cant do it. The intern gig is in 6 weeks and even if I lost 15 of that 26 pounds I would be over the moon and at least some of my clothes suitable for the internship would actually fit me.
