I’ve been doing 18/6 for the last two weeks and I felt really proud. I’ve just realized the tea I’ve been drinking has artificial sweeteners in it and I’m absolutely crushed.

So I’ve been doing 18/24 every day over the last two weeks. Some days I hit 19 hours, and yesterday I even hit 24 hours, which is the longest fast I’ve ever done. I was really proud.

I felt like I was doing well, but I haven’t lost any weight yet. I’d classify myself as skinny fat (88kg/194 pounds and roughly 6 foot 1).

I just realized today that the tea I’ve been having every morning had artificial sweeteners. As soon as I realized, I was so upset. Completely crushed.

This is the tea:

https://www.t2tea.com/en/au/tea/black-tea/melbourne-breakfast-loose-leaf-D61.html?gclid=CjwKCAiAk--dBhABEiwAchIwkYfbU30V7PRSAOVtMOQ_A_2QyxzVJYJ8DLttKjY0h318bH--20TsLBoCMh0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

These are the ingredients:

- Black tea, natural and artificial vanilla flavoring

I feel like a complete failure because now it makes complete sense why I haven’t lost any weight. I hadn’t noticed any of the other fasting benefits either.

I was also feeling like 18/24 was somewhat manageable, but only because the tea helped significantly. Now I don’t know what to do because this tea was literally the only thing that was helping me get through the fast.

I don’t really know what to do. I’m not expecting anyone to read or reply to this, but I’m just feeling so devastated that these last two weeks (which were quite difficult) were all for nothing and that I honestly don’t think I’ll be able to do this by just drinking hot water :(