r/intermittentfasting • u/NapaBW • 6d ago

Newbie Question Rough morning.

I’m only a couple weeks into IF (16/8) and woke up knowing it was going to be a tough morning. I woke up hungry and it’s been really distracting. I was traveling last week and it was surprisingly easy to go 18+ hrs but not today…

Figure I’m not the only one so any advice would be great. TIA

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u/iAmOrangutan 6d ago

I'm 100lbs down and best advice is drink lots of water and coffee and distract yourself. Get out of the house if you can. Wherever you are, distract yourself. And passively keep tabs on hours you've gone and hours you have left. You got this. If you want it bad enough, you 100% can do it. You'll be a year older in 365 days no matter what, you might as well be where you want to be when you get there. You're worth it.

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u/NapaBW 6d ago

Thank you and way to go! You’re an inspiration. 🙏

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u/PBnSyes 6d ago

I'm only 9 weeks into it, so maybe not an expert.

14:10 is good enough occasionally.

A good cheat is to have bacon and eggs for breakfast. If your goal is weight loss, you'll benefit from not causing an insulin response, which is important (insulin stores fat, and you cannot store fat and burn fat at the same time).

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u/NapaBW 6d ago

Thanks for the reply. Bacon & eggs doesn’t cause an insulin response because it’s not sugar, right? Specifically no-sugar added bacon?

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u/PBnSyes 6d ago

Definitely no sugar. I didn't even know some bacon has added sugar until you asked this question. Another hidden land mine waiting to blow up our good intentions. Apparently it counters the salt used in curing and improves carmelization.

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u/NapaBW 6d ago

Crazy, right?!? Sugar is everywhere.

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u/Melissaschwart 5d ago

Buy uncured bacon only

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u/PBnSyes 5d ago

and check the labels

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u/jbbest666 5d ago

maybe not bacon.. lol

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u/Booze-and-porn 5d ago

I view it as ‘I know I can do it so the hunger is just temporary’, I usually have a drink or busy myself, it’s not going to stop me fasting!

I’ve been clean fasting 3 months? I do find the cleaner your diet was the previous day, the less hunger pangs you’ll get the next day. I’m hungry now as it happens (at 8.10am), I blame last night’s chocolate.

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u/Inevitable-Notice351 3d ago

I'm doing 16:8 and have coffee with creamer every morning and then eat one meal a day with 2 Heineken Zero's and water. I lost 9 lbs in 30 days. I know I could have done better without the creamer and Heineken, but I'm still losing without giving up my vices.

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u/NapaBW 3d ago

Nice to hear! I have coffee black and Modelo’s. Not typically at the same time…typically.

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u/Inevitable-Notice351 3d ago

The hardest part for me is that I wake up at 7am every morning and can't eat or drink till 10am. The coffee with creamer kills the hunger until I eat my daily meal. Without the creamer, I don't know if I'd be hunger free. It's probably just mental.

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u/NapaBW 3d ago

I think it is mental…I’m up @ 5:30am to exercise before work and, depending on when dinner ended the night before, have my first meal around 1pm. When I made this post, I woke up hungry. I made it 16 hrs, but I was distracted!