if i want it then i'm gonna have it i don't care
i'm just being honest hey guys what's up welcome back to my channel
if you guys are new here welcome my name is caitlyn and in today's video
we're gonna be doing a little bit of a life update i've had some of you guys
ask me are you still intermittent fasting what's going on with that
so that's what today's video is going to be about
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so it's not that i don't like intermittent fasting
or that it isn't working for me or anything like that
i just feel like it's not sustainable for me at this point
at least what i was doing i don't feel that the 16
8 method is as sustainable as it used to be
so before i would fast from 12 p.m to 8 p.m
faithfully every single day maybe sometimes i would do 1pm to 9 pm
at the most but that was it and i feel like that's totally doable i did that
for over two years and i felt like that's something that
you can totally do but do i feel like that's sustainable for the long term
forever no but i feel like you can still do a variation of intermittent fasting
so what i'm doing right now is i'm giving myself a little bit more freedom
and a little bit more flexibility so let's say i don't break my fast until
i don't know 2 p.m then i'll stop eating at 10 p.m or if i don't break my fast
until 3 pm sometimes i'll stop eating at 10 p.m or
10 30 but i don't really go past that because i
don't really like eating meals late into the night i'm nowhere
near as strict as i used to be but i'm still seeing results
i'm still maintaining my weight i'm not gaining
any weight or anything like that so i do feel like what i'm doing is
working for me but it did take me having to be strict
in the beginning in order for me to get to where i am now
i feel like if you're just starting out and you're just
new to intermittent fasting i wouldn't recommend playing around with the times
as much as i am right now just so you don't slow your
results down but this is what's been working for me
i still feel like it's really important to fast whether that's 12 hours a day
14 hours a day 20 hours a day whatever you choose i still feel like it's
important to be giving your body that time
to not be ingesting food and just for it to
repair itself and turn your cells over and all the good stuff that it does i
feel like it's nice to give your body a break and
rest from eating also when i go on vacations and i'm visiting my family
or something and let's say my parents want to go out to breakfast
i'm not gonna deny going out to breakfast with them because i'm
intermittent fasting i'll just make it up another day and life is all
about balance you don't have to be perfect it doesn't have to be this like
you know such like perfect thing and i feel like that's what i was making it
and i feel like i was just like going crazy inside trying to fit this
perfect little box and it just wasn't working for me i
feel like because i've been doing it for so long now that i have just like the
freedom and the flexibility to just you know make it work for me
so that's what i've been doing and as far as the weekends go i don't generally
fast on the weekends like i said i don't get hungry until at
least 12 p.m but if i break my fast around like 1 p.m
and it's late night i have the munchies it's like 11
p.m i'm gonna eat a little snack i'm not gonna restrict myself from having that
just because i like to be a little bit more carefree on the weekends
and i feel like i live a healthy enough lifestyle to be able to do that
and when i do eat whatever i'm not over here like
over indulging having huge portions and just you know making myself
feel bad like everything is about balance and if i want it
then i'm gonna have it especially on the weekends
i don't care i'm just being honest but what i want you guys to know out of
this is that intermittent fasting is not the
only reason that i lost weight it's a weight loss tool but it's not the only
answer i started to make healthier decisions
with food i wasn't afraid to try new things
i wasn't afraid to fail and i feel like that's super important because when i
first started cooking i can't tell you guys how many
embarrassing stories i have of me burning so many things and
things just coming out totally unedible literally
i was trying to make baked potatoes in the microwave
and i decided that it needs about 15 minutes
so i put it in the microwave turned it on for 15 minutes and then i hear this
loud boom explosion and it was because the plate broke
because who puts a plane in the microwave for 15 minutes
so it was just it was not good it was it
was not good i cried over it i was like i'm a failure i can't cook
but then i was like no you need to get over that and you need to try and you
need to try more and try more and then eventually it will become
easier for you so if you're struggling with cooking
and you're like well i can't eat healthy because i don't know how to cook
you're going to need to do some trial and error because you're not going to be
perfect the first time that you start cooking don't expect to
have pinterest perfect meals when you don't know what you're doing
you are to learn you got to give yourself the opportunity
to fail and laugh at yourself so like i said my
weight loss wasn't solely just from intermittent fasting it gave me the
tools to get to where i need to be but it wasn't the only answer it was
because i was eating healthy i was exercising i was drinking more water i
was doing all of those things along with intermittent fasting so i was
able to see results but i do have a question for you guys
are you guys interested in seeing what i eat in a day now that my eating
times have switched up a little bit or no let me know down in the comments
below if that's something that you guys would be
interested in seeing so i can make that for you
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