One thing that I really like about intermittent fasting is that I control food rather than food controlling me. If I can go 24+ hours without eating, then I surely can resist a piece of cake, candy, or anything else that could be deemed harmful to my health. I hate that feeling that I get when I eat something that I know I shouldn’t have. It’s the feeling of guilt that I have let myself down, that maybe I have not done everything I could have to resist that temptation. I know how much food controls my emotions. During times of high stress or fatigue, food is the first thing I think of when trying to “deal”. . Fasting gives that control back to me. To me, it’s a much better feeling to say that I have resisted all food for the last 24 hours than to say I resisted a bag of M&M’s. They are both huge feats but the fast gives me better control over the small things. It helps me break that viscous cycle that food has over me. It gives me back the power and I like that.
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IF’ing is getting much easier for me. it’s just difficult when my husband gets worried if I haven’t eaten for 24hrs. He isn’t paleo so it’s hard for him to understand that we don’t “need” to eat every couple hours like conventional wisdom tells us to do! I only 24hr IF once every 10 days or so anyway but I feel like I have to “sneak it”
Why doesn’t your husband adapt to the paleo lifestyle like you? Would be much easier on the fasting days!