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I kinda miss my Spark People blogs with titles / subject headers. I would have called this one "Break in Case of Emergency" because I broke my fasting window open tonight.
I had my last meal around 1 pm, closed my eating window and was fine until I had to scramble to put together some dishes for an early Father's Day lunch I'm having tomorrow. I have to go out of town unexpectedly on Sunday so I did some food shopping around 7 pm then came home, and started prepping some dishes.
My "Cephalic Phase Response" after all that exposure to food (thinking, handling/smelling) was super out of control.
I know I was having an insulin response even though I had not eaten anything because I felt a little dizzy. So I did "break my fasting window" and eat a few macadamia nuts and then a little bit of goat milk yogurt, two things I love.
It's all a learning process.
This is so different from other diets because I didn't "cheat" I wasn't "bad" and I did not feel in the least bit guilty. I had no urge to say "Screw it" then overeat and "start over" in the morning" as I would normally have done on other diets.
I know understand there is only the "fed" state and the "fasted" state. I'm either in one or the other and in this case I was in one, but needed to be in the other for reasons beyond my control.
I just needed to respond to my body's weird metabolic response to handling food in this instance, so I ate just enough until my body said, "OK, done - that's better."
So don't be afraid to "break the window" if you need to.
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