Scarcity mentality, poverty and IF

I had a bit of a mental breakthrough today I thought I’d share in case it helps someone else:I’ve been sporadically committing to 16/8 though I do find it hard to delay breakfast and often times end my fast early especially when I have a busy workday ahead of me. HOWEVER, this morning I pushed through the discomfort of no breakfast, getting to work with a growling belly, often in such a scenario my thoughts that cause me to break my fast early are something like:If I don’t eat I’m not going to have any energy!What if I haven’t eaten and I get really desperately hungry but I have to wait until lunch?Often times these thoughts lead me to get a rushed take out breakfast of something entirely not sustaining like a croissant or a muffin- just to stave off that fear of what might happen if I don’t eat. Today I got so busy I didn’t eat til noon.. and guess what- I was totally fine. I had good energy, I wasn’t hangry, I wasn’t impulse eating junk- I was able to wait for a proper healthy lunch after 18hrs fasting (more than my normal 16 which has been a challenge!)I think there’s a lot of unlearning about the scarcity of food in this process for me. I remember as a kid if I was at a buffet or somewhere there was free food I would think to myself- better take advantage of this- who knows when you’ll have food like this again. I guess conditioning from growing up in poverty and having that food scarcity is still engrained in me and I can usually talk myself out of my intention to delay breakfast. But I did it today, by keeping busy, and honestly the hunger pangs I felt at 8am were non existent once I started my shift right until I broke for lunch. Sorry to wax philosophical but I just caught myself in the story I tell myself nearly everyday and am a bit stunned thinking back to how long I’ve been telling myself this and how little truth there has been to it. via /r/intermittentfasting https://ift.tt/vx3ahBY https://ift.tt/PwG0cqB