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lient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwiY2fiVpaTvAhVHvZ4KHVuVDxwQ4dUDCA0&uact=5">Thirst can also be mistaken for hunger</a>. This is apparently true even when you’ve come to recognize the difference. It certainly rang true for me.</p><p id="4845">I drank less water. I ate more at meals and eventually ate more often between meals.</p><p id="8deb">I can’t say if this is related to the water, but I also tweaked something in my side and decided to take a few days off my exercise routine. I don’t think it came from my workout, which is designed to minimize injuries. But my exercising aggravated the problem.</p><p id="ea0d">Secure in the knowledge that I’d <b><i>figured out</i></b> how to overcome bad habits; I settled back into bad habits.</p><h1 id="87b5">When I returned home, I found we had to get our well water treated. I still don’t completely trust it.</h1><p id="e00f">And with those two issues, drinking less water and halting exercise, my two keys to health and fitness diminished.</p><p id="7ab9">Soon I was intermittent fasting only intermittently. At best.</p><p id="9b64">I always knew I’d gain some weight back. Fasting allows for that.</p><p id="b115">But weeks passed, and I stopped doing the work. And then, finally, I recognized a warning sign when the others hadn’t registered.</p><p id="1eb4" type="7">My newest, smaller size of pants I’d bought grew too tight.</p><h1 id="cc0a">Wake-up call.</h1><p id="d9ab">Okay. Maybe it wasn’t the pants that grew.</p><p id="989d">I could take refuge that my other<b> </b>smaller-but-not-quite-as-small-as-the-newest-pairs-of-pants still fit. Or, I could start putting in the work before I grew to my previous obese levels.</p><p id="26f3">Fortunately, I picked the healthy path.</p><p id="ffc7">Deciding to get back in shape and then picking a starting point is the hardest part.</p><h2 id="a029">After that, I found it’s easy to start back. Here are the steps I took.</h2><ol><li>Make a point of drinking water frequently throughout the day. This also means always have drinking water available.</li><li>Ease back into fasting. I wanted to correct things with a week-long fast. Going back to regular 18-hour fasts and building up to OMAD is smarter. So that’s where I am. To make this work, I use a fasting tracker (<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifeomic.lifefasting&hl=en_US&gl=US">LIFE Fasting Tracker)</a> to keep track and keep me honest.</li><li>Start back the exercises with less than 10 minutes a day.</li></ol><p id="fac6">That’s it. The hardest part was starting again. But the lifestyle and methods are so easy, it doesn’t take much to begin. Especially when it all started with not drinking water.</p><p id="c6d7">To paraphrase Nike, <b><i>Just Drink It</i></b>.</p><p id="5923">I’m not where I was. But boy, do I feel better already with just a few days of the routine.</p><p id="cec2">It’s easy to forget how much healthier and full of energy this lifestyle brings
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about.</p><h2 id="2864">Our success has to be intentional.</h2><p id="71d8" type="7">No more, I’ll eventually work out. No. Work out. No more, I’ll start fasting back. Probably tomorrow. Nope. Stop eating at a specific time and start the fasting timer. I can eat again tomorrow at 1pm. If I’m hungry.</p><p id="d4db" type="7">Success means doing the things that lead to success.</p><p id="0a22">I’ll be completing two weeks of the <a href="https://betterme.world/articles/186-intermittent-fasting/">18–6<b></b></a><b> </b>fasting protocol soon. Then I’ll move on to longer fasts.</p><p id="bc0f">And I was surprised at how easy it was to jump back into my 5 exercises, even though I’d recently added weight to my kettlebells.</p><ul><li>Drink water.</li><li>Intermittent fast.</li><li>Do my fast five exercises.</li><li>Put in the work.</li></ul><p id="75af">It works for me, even after restarting bad habits. It can work for you as well.</p><p id="9fed"><i>Scott Hughey would much rather write a fake article about how he never struggled again to stay healthy. The real story, though, he thinks, is more authentic and more helpful.</i></p><div id="6e38" class="link-block">
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