Anonymous wrote:Don’t buy junk! I only buy groceries for meals, no snack food. No one needs to snack. People snack because they’re bored, not hungry.

Stop with your no snacking crazy talk. Humans were never intended to be hungry for more than 2 seconds. It’s extremely unnatural. If you allow this type of hunger to exist between set meals you will definitely die.

OP I haven't read any of the replies so apologies if this suggestion was already offered. My solution - just go to the office! That's a no brainer to me, unless you moved further away during COVID with the assumption that you would be 100% WFH. Outside of that, just go to the office.

Don’t buy junk! I only buy groceries for meals, no snack food. No one needs to snack. People snack because they’re bored, not hungry.

Anonymous wrote:I have a dorm fridge and microwave in my office, plus a bag of high protein, low calorie snacks. I start Monday stocked with my food for the week. And don’t go in the kitchen during the day. Fruit, veggies, protein drinks and bars, low-fat skyr, hummus and whole wheat thins or veggies, cottage cheese, low-fat cheese, salad or grilled chicken wraps, etc for lunch. So when I’m hungry, the kids crap and leftovers aren’t options. And if I run out of a favorite snack on Wednesday, I’m done until the next week.

I also put my food for the day into My fitness pal in the morning. And that’s what I eat. If I don’t stick to the plan, I have to go in and add/ change what I ate and watch the calorie count go up.

Having hot tea or cold tea, season dependent, to sip on also helps.

Imagine being so obsessed with food you keep a fridge and microwave in your home office. Wow.

Hi, this is OP. I am back to check in. I’ve done “clean fasting” through the Gin Stephens method now for 1 month.

I haven’t lost a huge amount of weight, just a couple of pounds. but I know from reading Gin Stephens that we should not expect to lose a lot of weight in the first month. Also, I FEEL really healthy and great. I’ve got a 5-6 eating window most days and I do really eat a lot during that window, so there’s potential for
me to exercise more self control during my eating window and then I think I will see much more difference on the scale. However, right now, I am just happy that I feel so much better.

I’ve had one cheat day - the day after Halloween - when I drank the night before and felt the need to eat in the morning. I felt absolutely terrible being hung over and eating all day. Then I realized that I had been eating in that way for the past four years - an all day bonanza of eating for four years!! It’s going to take months for me to work this weight off. And the Gin Stephens book was so helpful for me in terms of managing my expectations - I don’t expect to see real results for another 3 months or so. And that’s only if I truly follow the regimen and don’t overeat too much during my eating window.

To the prior posters who shared the clean fast information with me, THANK YOU so much. It’s really not that hard to fast when I’m doing the clean fast. I’ll check in again in another month or so!!

Anonymous wrote:^^^meant to say, thank you, PP!

You are welcome! Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:I do crest white strips on my wfh days

That only lasts for about 30 minutes, no?

The strip plus you shouldn't eat for a while. It gets me through my snacky time.

I have a dorm fridge and microwave in my office, plus a bag of high protein, low calorie snacks. I start Monday stocked with my food for the week. And don’t go in the kitchen during the day. Fruit, veggies, protein drinks and bars, low-fat skyr, hummus and whole wheat thins or veggies, cottage cheese, low-fat cheese, salad or grilled chicken wraps, etc for lunch. So when I’m hungry, the kids crap and leftovers aren’t options. And if I run out of a favorite snack on Wednesday, I’m done until the next week.

I also put my food for the day into My fitness pal in the morning. And that’s what I eat. If I don’t stick to the plan, I have to go in and add/ change what I ate and watch the calorie count go up.

Having hot tea or cold tea, season dependent, to sip on also helps.

Anonymous wrote:I do crest white strips on my wfh days

That only lasts for about 30 minutes, no?

I do crest white strips on my wfh days

^^^meant to say, thank you, PP!

I'm a PP, and I bought the Gin Stephens book on advice of another PP above (Fast. Feast. Repeat.). It was like an epiphany!

I didn't understand how important it was to fast cleanly (no cheating during the fast period). I didn't understand how the tongue sends a signal to the brain to release insulin, so that I was completely undermining myself with coffee and milk. (the milk is the problem, not the coffee)

I fast in the morning, but I drink coffee with milk because I thought, well, it's just maybe half a cup, when all is said and done.

But her point is, every sip creates an insulin spike. It takes about 4 minutes to reset, but what do I do?--take another sip, get another insulin spike. All morning, spike, reset, spike, reset! So it's like liquid snacking.

She explains it better but I wanted to put this here because it was so eye-opening to me, maybe it will help someone else.

Same and I am trying to stop. I'm packing lunch the same way I would to go into the office and trying to only eat that. When hungry I have fruit and veggies trays that I snack on. Good luck

OP here.
I bought a Gin Stephens book and started reading it. I finally understand what a “clean fast” is and perhaps this is why I’ve never been able to stick to IF. I’m going to give it a try. Today was day 1 of clean fasting for me. I’ll check back in and let everyone know how it went!! Thanks so much for the advice folks!!

Anonymous wrote: OZEMPIC

Good luck finding it.