I started doing IF in December and I was dealing with it pretty well.
Then, in March, I started the Wai Diet and I began to have more stress related issues. I pretty much started Wai on cold turkey since I was very confident that time. And, in the beginning, I was continuing with that confidence, but then I started to have some issues and I didn't know how to solve them.
Also, I realized that I was all alone doing this and if something happened to me, it would be all my fault.
When I noticed my legs were disappearing and I was starting to have troubles on standing still on my own, it was really scary for me. I don't want to have a cane already with only 25 years old.
Now, I am scared little baby.
I pretty much screwed up my semester. I could not focus on anything besides my health.
So I've stopped both of them: first IF and then Wai. I mean, when it starts to be a hindrance and not a healing, I think it is better to just stop.
Also, I was not dealing well with all of this: I was expecting to be super human right now and not the exact opposite.
dime wrote:Novidez, try to take it slowly. IF is difficult to do and it is stressful, stress hormones raise when you are fasting. Switching to a new diet is similarly stressful until you adapt to it. Whatever other changes you are making add yet more fuel to the fire.
Try to do and adapt to one (small) thing at a time, and ignore those impulses to try whatever else in the meantime. Baby steps and lots of patience. And also try to avoid wasting time reading articles from shady gurus, preachers, teachers, doctors, etc.
I feel completely lost. I mean, I am so ignorant that every (supposedly) light I see, I just want to follow it trying to get better. But I will always end up not knowing what I am doing and, as you said pretty well, "you are making add yet more fuel to the fire". I really have to study and understand all of this.
I wish I could gather some gurus, put them in a room and see/hear the debate.
dime wrote:E.g. I'm trying IF since I've had a stable diet I'm happy with for a long time. For now I'm just doing it like this: fast until about 12:00-13:00 (or later, depends how busy it turns out at work), go to gym, and right afterwards I break the fast. I do this only when I go to gym which is three times a week. Sometimes I skip and it's twice a week. I'll go on like this for months probably until I'm confident it's going well and then stop to reassess how it could be changed for the better (e.g. possibly try doing it every day, or include full day fasts, or stop IF altogether).
You are more cautious indeed and maybe that's the way it should be.
I am very impulsive maybe because I just want to get better. If I have to follow a diet, I am very restrictive with myself and I do it exactly how it is. Because I want to see the results and I don't admit myself cheating. I just go ham since the beginning.
However, being this impulsive might kill me one day for sure.
P.S.: this previous Sunday, I didn't know what to eat, so I drank some OJ (2L). For my surprise, I started to have some issues on my breathing again (tightness throat, shortness of breath, etc). This is a little ironic... It would be 'funny' that all this time I have been doing Wai, only now, I realized that I am allergic to citrus fruits. I blamed the salmon, I blamed the eggs, but never the OJ... Even though, I still have to make sure this is true or just a coincidence.