Have you wanted to control your eating habits? In today’s article, How I improved during my 25-day intermittent fasting. Is about my own experience with intermittent fasting. It’s become a popular technique that people use to regulate their weight and to combat inflammation. For me, I took on this challenge to help with my acid reflux and overall discipline with food, especially in the evening or when I’m bored. I hope you enjoy my experience.
What Is Intermittent Fasting?
What I Learned
My journey started off with the hope that this technique could help with my overall health but also the mental aspects of focus you gain from intermittent fasting. I believe I gained all of these outcomes suttlely over the weeks I did this challenge. My energy levels and focus in the morning on the 16th hour of fasting was astonshing. I once thought you couldn’t go without breakfast in the morning.
Now I’m completing a full workout and working at my computer without a care for food. Of course, there comes a point when it’s time to eat but that habit of always having to eat more than I should was slowly disappearing.
The nighttime snacks were gone and I genuinely didn’t care even if my partner was munching on my favourite chocolate. I surprised myself how easily I resisted.
The main learning point I could take from this challenge was I’m actually in control of my eating habits. Whereas I have lived a life where food has controlled me.
What Challenges I Faced
I would say I faced minimal challenges whilst intermittent fasting. I stopped eating after my last meal around 5 pm to 7 pm. After my evening meal, I was full and I kept myself hydrated to combat any hunger. I slept for 6 hours and upon waking I kept myself busy with exercise, school run and work from home. Sometimes I wanted to eat my breakfast sooner but that only came on a rest day where I wasn’t doing too much. Overall if you followed that schedule I think It would be easy for any adult to do.
What I Improved On
The improvement I have made not only helped with my weight but also my mental wellbeing too. My top 5 are just below.
Weight loss
A reduction in food cravings
Morning focus elevated
No more acid reflux
Increase in energy
All my improvements weren’t stand out improvements but I could definitely feel and see in myself that intermittent fasting definitely improved my body and mind.
How Intermittent Fasting Can Benefit Your Life
Our body and mind were built not for the on-demand food we have at our disposal like never before. It was built to go days without eating while we looked for our next food source.
To be able to stay energised and mentally focussed we became more energised to fulfil the task of hunting for our prey. This is still part of everyone and when we tap into it. We can find our most energised and focussed self.
So if you’re permitted to fast in any way based on your health. I would highly recommend going back in time to live how our bodies were intended to. By giving our bodies time to digest our food and tap into energy resources through intermittent fasting.
Over To You
I hope you enjoyed today’s article, How I improved during my 25-day intermittent fasting. It was an easy challenge to do but a worthwhile one. I intend to carry this on for the forcible future as long as it helps my minds focus, makes me happy and gives me the energy I desire.
Hi, I’m Adam
I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.
In today’s article, start your day with a letter to yourself to boost performance. Was an idea that came to my mind to help re-focus my brain every morning by having an honest conversation with myself. We can all go to bed with the best of intentions but when we wake up the war begins again and somedays we are excited and some days we are not.
To refocus the mind on what’s important to us. Reading a letter to myself has changed my minds focus every single morning back in a forward direction. This article is written to help inspire you to have this winning technique in your life.
How To Improve Yourself Every Day?
Every day we all wake up to a fresh new day. We have the tools, the experience and the capability to succeed but one thing can always hold us back if we let it. That’s the mind.
If we let our mind dictate our decisions based on feelings in the moment, succeeding is going to be a reactive process.
How to change from being reactive is becoming pro-active. You have to take charge of your destiny and the forward direction you want to go in. I to have lived a re-active exitance based on my feelings and what comes to me. When this happens performance drops, productivity becomes slow and procrastination can soon follow.
How to change this is becoming proactive with life.
Why Talking To Yourself Helps Mental Wellbeing
If you have ever had a coach in your life. How has that coach helped in re-focusing your mind?
For me, they can bring out the best in you at any given moment. Changing the very chemicals in your brain where you can feel 7ft tall and do anything in that moment. This is all done through words. Words they have brought to life with their passion but words none the less.
It’s great to have a coach to do this. But wouldn’t it be better to be your own coach. To use words to inspire yourself every day or at any giving moment. That’s the power we all have within us. That’s the power that needs to be unlocked. To have that self-motivation every day to have a conversation with ourselves.
Our own voice is powerful. It can change how we think and how we act. Our own voice can shape our very existence in what we believe and give us the energy to execute our goals. The power of our own voice can make or break us. That’s why it’s such a powerful tool we all need to utilise and control.
How Alicia Keys Inspires Herself By Writing
I think I’m safe to say we all know who Alicia Keys is. If not check her music out she is amazing. Not only is she a famous musician. Alicia has an amazing mindset and in one of her post on Instagram. She discussed a technique she uses every morning to re-align her thoughts. Alicia writes down how she intends her day to go. She lives the day in her mind and on paper and resets the mind to focus its energy on where it should go. This is an amazing pro-active technique to allow the mind to focus.
I tried this technique myself and it’s a great way to plan your day each morning in a fun way. This also gave me the idea of how I could kick start my morning, especially if I don’t have the time to sit down and write. I envisioned a letter coming to me every morning of thoughts from myself. This is where the idea of the mentality letter was formed.
This Is Why I started Writing Letters To Myself
The whole reason I started to write a mentality letter to myself was to improve my mind’s focus and productivity throughout the day. With the countless amount of distractions pulling me in different directions. This letter to myself allowed me to regain that focus and clarity of what I needed to do every day.
How My Performance Improved
Immediately on the first morning of reading the mentality letter, I felt a rush of energy running through my mind and body. That very day I achieved a lot in productivity and also a calmness about myself. I thought this was just because it was new but every day I read this letter I had the same reaction and my performance remained high.
Think of the famous yellow brick road from The Wizard Of OZ. I went from getting distracted with all the things outside of the path I was on. To now only following the path I was set out to achieve with the wizards castle being my overall goal for that day.
So overall for me. Having a mentality letter to read every morning helped me to feel more confident, focused, clear of what I need to do, kept me grounded and gave me the energy I needed to perform.
Why You Should Start Your Day With A Letter To Yourself To Boost Performance
We all want to perform to a high standard in everything we do, We want that Laser focus to achieve our goals. But what gets in the way is our own mind pulling us in different directions or finding the most comfortable way that leads to procrastination.
This habit can be hard to get out of and much like a car if we don’t turn the key the car will not start. This is the same with your mind. For your mind to get started the mentality letter is the key to starting your mind every day and the actions you take is the fuel that keeps it running throughout the day.
Over To You
I hope you enjoyed today’s article, start your day with a letter to yourself to boost performance. I’m always looking for ways to improve myself and others around me. I think as humans we not that different as we think we are. We are going through the same mental obstacles each day. The only difference is that some people have better habits and techniques to overcome those obstacles.
This mentality letter has been for me that very technique to overcome doubt, procrastination and a lack of focus in what I need to do. I hope this finds you well and can’t wait to hear about your mentality letter journey.
A Final Word From Future Mindset
I want you to find time alone and sit down and write this letter to yourself. Just like your writing to your best friend.
Be honest with yourself about what you want to achieve. Preemptive strike the bad habits that you need to stop. Then build yourself up with the things you have achieved by having good habits.
This is a letter where your creativity can run wild. You can include what you’re overall grateful for, a paragraph on what you want your morning to look like and how you want your business to improve by the actions you need to take.
Whatever you write in your mentality letter. It has to be able to unlock the fire inside you by holding you accountable. But also knowing you are enough as a person. A fine balance to bringing out your best performance.
If you need any help in building your mental strength contact me at adam@thefuturemindset.
Hi I’m Adam
I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.
