Perhaps you thought I dropped off the IF wagon? I haven’t: but I have dangled my feet close to the moving ground and scuffed up my runners. In other words, I have deviated somewhat from my original eight hours of feeding and sixteen hours of fasting schedule… just a little bit, and not surprisingly, on the weekends.
I love Mondays
I inform you here that I plain old love Mondays, because they are a reset day. Just like September and January, Mondays give us a chance to assess, goal set, and recommit. Let us start with an assessment, followed by goal setting and recommitting, shall we?
Assessment of challenges and successes thus far:
1. My weekend deviations revealed my propensity toward overindulgence, as a day gets long. I am like a gremlin, who should not be fed past a certain hour: I become a mindless consumer of whatever is in front of me.
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| Saying yes to washboard abs, no to cupcakes |
2. I am sneaky and self-deceptive. While it appears that I am being noble by starting something as austere sounding as a fast, I am a sugar-loving-cupcake-eating-maniac. People think I am a health nut, because of my profession(s): I realize that I sabotage this ideal of me, so that I can blend in a bit, and not be held to what feels like other peoples standards and perceptions of me. Even this sounds like an excuse to eat a colourful cupcake, doesn’t it dear reader?
3. I like how I feel on the fast part of the day. I’m not that hungry; I have temperance, and can delay the gratification of eating; I have noticed more definition in my muscles.
4. My mid-section is thick… guess I can’t get away with cupcakes, oh, and moose tracks ice-cream.
Goal setting
1. Continue the 8/16 fast, including on the weekends
2. Choose sugar free foods: I previously gave up sugar for seventy-six days… I will keep it in my life because we like each other, but I am going to eat more fruit instead of baked or frozen goods
3. I want to see washboard abs. I have come close, and scared them away when they got too real. This will be an emotional challenge for me, as I discover what my blocks are and why they have taken up residence in my psyche for so long?
Recommitting
1. I am recommitting to the Intermittent Fast and my original intentions: I want results. I desire the fruit of the spirit, known as self-control, or temperance, to be evident in this part of my life. I have lots of discipline in other areas and would really like some mastery in my eating and exercise habits. I am not far off, from fine tuning my wily ways.
2. I’m ok, with recognizing I am a work in progress and that passion and endurance wax and wane for a time, until we snap ourselves out of our revery and decide, again, to be all that we can be, as the army, I believe, used to say.
3. Change is in the air dear reader, and I want to be all in with whatever is coming my way. I can only do this if I assess, goal set, and recommit.
Be kind to yourself
That is it for me on the IF front for now. I hope you are enjoying your Intermittent Fast schedule too? Be kind to yourself and perhaps, do as I have. Assess, goal set, and recommit. Understanding ourselves and what motives or demotivates us, is highly recommended and useful.
Won’t you join me
Bonne chance (I say this tongue in cheek) dear reader. It is forever and always, truly up to us, to choose the how, what, when, where, and why, in our lives. I am choosing IF, yet again. Won’t you join me?
