Fighting my thoughts of look at all that baked Mac and cheese and grilled barbequed chicken just eat it and restart tomorrow … I need to find ways to stay busy … Untill my mind and free will lines up with what I’m trying to do … Smelling food makes me just want to eat it … a little aggitated…at the moment anyone else felt this way
12 hours in on day one and struggling
1st 3 days are always the toughest. It gets easier once you make the transition from using glucose to fat for energy.
Here are my coping strategies:
- A couple of dabs of Himalayan salt from finger to tongue
- Remember Arya Stark from Game of Thrones, “Not Today!”
- Watch “Irish people react to various food” YouTube videos
Hope this helps!
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What’s helping me stay strong is remembering how I feel every time I failed before like literally, how sick my stomach felt and just the regret of feeling like dang I wish I would have just made it past that moment because it wasn’t worth what I’m feeling right now so I don’t know if you tried before and failed or even if you tried before and succeeded but just remember how it felt and embrace what it would feel like to succeed and reject anything else that will stand in your way. And then again if you really can’t make it don’t be hard on yourself maybe today is not the day for you to do it. I tried for a long time just to do it cold turkey and couldn’t. This is my second day of ever fasting (I can’t believe it because i almost thought this day would never come) and I begin by cutting out meat for a little bit which I ate vegan meat which made me not really want regular meat and then I just went from there like I stop eating other trigger foods then went to fresh pressed juice or smoothies. It really helped my taste buds not fight me so much. I also did short intervals of fasting before I was able to do it for it a full day, intermittent fasting. Every step forward is a victory so don’t think of yourself as failing just because you didn’t conquer the whole thing today take it day by day. But for so long I kept thinking if I was to do it that way it would take me longer to get to my goal really it didn’t. I still didn’t get to the goal with the thinking. Now since I’ve been okay with taking baby steps I’ve made the most progress in the shortest amount of time. I’ve tried to do it the other way for years and I did it this way in like a month and but I had to be okay with feeling like I’m not failing because I’m not doing it all-in-one swoop.
I did have a last meal that included meat before I started but I don’t plan on eating meat after so I said 
for good. So have your last meal and then just remember if you are going to go back to eating the same way that it will be there once your fast is over. And if you’re changing the way you eat then your taste buds will change anyway you probably won’t even want it. You can do it try not to be too hard on yourself work your way into it if you need to 
that meal sounds so good LOL ! Don’t be discouraged , you can do it . I didn’t make it on my first day and I had to reset . I’m now on day 2 officially and I feel great - we got this.
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