I Haven't Eaten Anything Today

People have different tolerances. Sounds like you're not a good candidate for OMAD or the more restrictive versions of IF. I don't practice either but have gone extended periods without food (up to 24 hours) without any ill effects.

I can't skip meals either anymore,I get super bad blood sugar crashes dizziness,nausea,etc

Lol I’m probably gonna get blasted, but people usually have a hard time in the beginning of any IF schedule. Most folks start with 12:12 which is pretty easy if you don’t snack at night, (you sleep through 7-8hrs of it) and just delay breakfast. Then they move up and find they can move the eating time up and hour or two. It’s just a matter of finding out if you’re really hungry or not, most the time I’m not hungry and I’m just bored or pissed off or something. At this moment I’m on hour 24 of a planned 48 hr fast and I’m not even remotely hungry. But of course, this really isn’t for everyone, it’s just a choice I make for myself.

Do you work somewhere where you're not allowed to have any food at all with you even in a backpack or something?

I find that protein shakes and a sliced bread sandwich (cut in half) is pretty easy to eat while working. Takes about 3 minutes to eat half of a sandwich.

Terytha wrote: »

Sorry, I should clarify. It's not that I'm not allowed breaks, today was just uniquely nuts and I realized later on all I'd had was a coffee my coworker brought me and the milk I had in the morning. I didn't even think about food until near the end of the day... when I finally relaxed enough to realize how *kitten* I felt.

As I sat there trembling and feeling like hell, I was just wondering how people who fast actually even survive. But I guess it makes sense that some people just aren't cut out for it.

I never snack, so I don't have any to bring. Tomorrow I know will be worse so I'll try to at least eat breakfast.

Find a bar or snack mix you like and keep some in your desk at work (or stashed in your purse). I like Clif Builder Bars. Tasty and can do for lunch in a pinch.

I understand how that can easily happen and I work from home. It used to happen to me pretty regularly when I was gaining weight because I would then eat too much trying to compensate for how crap I felt.

Terytha wrote: »

Sorry, I should clarify. It's not that I'm not allowed breaks, today was just uniquely nuts and I realized later on all I'd had was a coffee my coworker brought me and the milk I had in the morning. I didn't even think about food until near the end of the day... when I finally relaxed enough to realize how *kitten* I felt.

As I sat there trembling and feeling like hell, I was just wondering how people who fast actually even survive. But I guess it makes sense that some people just aren't cut out for it.

I never snack, so I don't have any to bring. Tomorrow I know will be worse so I'll try to at least eat breakfast.

The food you bring doesn’t have to be marketed as a “snack food.” Bring leftovers. Dry cereal. A sandwich. Fruit. A protein shake. Anything that you like and that you’re able to eat.

If you want to avoid it in the future, consider keeping some protein bars around. They work in a pinch. I'll grab one if I have to leave for the airport before 5 am. I also have some similar items at my office -- I moved my office recently and when I was cleaning out my desk I had all these bars I'd bought to try and forgotten about -- guess they didn't really appeal.

But I'm someone who doesn't really find skipping breakfast/lunch that big a deal. I'll feel hungry (more if I'm not crazy busy, if I'm crazy busy I tend to forget about it). I've done full day fasts and certainly missed food, especially at dinner time, but I had no physical symptoms at all beyond feeling hungry.

Sometimes I can be sent somewhere miles and miles away, sent to court urgently, which can then last the rest of the day, sent to pick up children urgently, meetings overun and then run into each other, then I have to get out to the next visit or appointment and so on and so on. Lucky the people that can just choose to turn things off or have time in front of an email.

Terytha wrote: »

forestfreek wrote: »

I'm sorry but I work in a high-stress, face paced field and I've never heard of anyone not having time to eat at least a granola bar or an apple over the course of a day. Totally makes no sense. You have to prioritize, plain and simple. You can chew while typing out an email, can't you??

I do not work in a high stress, fast paced job. The opposite, I'm usually bored. If I did work in a fast paced job, I'd be prepared. I don't so I was unprepared.

I surely had time to eat an apple, but where do you suggest I get an apple from if I don't have one, and also lack a time machine with which to forewarn myself to have one?

Anyways I ended up eating very little yesterday for various reasons so tonight I'm going to spoil myself. Sushi maybe.

Right. Because if you did have a time machine you could go back and change your original post since in it you said you HAD LITERALLY NO TIME TO EAT. LOL.
Whatever. Enjoy your sushi

Ironandwine69 wrote: »

You will be fine. Nobody out their health at risk from not eating for one day.

I've nearly blacked out behind the wheel after a 12 hour shift without food. Was working emergency, didn't have time to eat even if I had remembered that I needed to - and I'm healthy, have no issues with blood sugar, normally. It can definitely happen.

Have always kept food in my locker since then, that was too scary!