And without having to lock myself in the bathroom to do so?
I believe not.
Yet the little ones will not let me do that. But then I realized how I could make it possible.
So on my way home this morning, I stopped at the local 7-11 and got a small bag of Salsa Verde flavored Doritos. I took it and a Diet Dr. Pepper into the bedroom with me. Then I turned on my sound machine and went to sleep.
When I woke up, I got the bag of Doritos and the soda, and feasted before I turned the sound machine off. The family knows that when the sound machine is on, they can only enter if there's a fire or copious amounts of blood are involved. So I knew I would not be interrupted unless the house was burning down or the little ones got into a playroom brawl.
I have no regrets and I do not feel guilty. Not. One. Bit.
I'm also almost 20 lb. down since starting the intermittent fasting in the middle of October. 19.75 to be specific. The fact that I don't eat for 16 hours out of each work day (on days off, I scale it back to 12 hours) lets me eat whatever I want--within reason--during the other 8.
