Is a lack of hunger ever a bad thing? I was purposely doing OMAD, but now I don't feel hunger at all. I'm thinking of seeing how long it takes for hunger to reappear.
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I fast 4 days a week. "Hunger" that most people refer to is simply a disregulation of glucose and insulin. Hunger is something you feel in your throat not the stomach.
What you are feeling is regulation of your ATP through ketosis which feels like stomach satiety. Your body has given up looking for glucose through carbohydrates and has begun using stored fat and muscle.
Most I’ve done is 2 days, only once. 4 days is impressive. 30 days+ is baller.
The most I've done in a row is 14.(I was so cranky my wife made me eat.) I do 2 days fast, 1 day I can eat, then 2 days fast, 2 days eating. It just takes the idea that "I can eat whatever I want in two days." It keeps me going.
Damned impressive 😎
That's amazing. The most I've done is a day. I usually end up eating because I see other people eating.
Having the power to tell yourself "Out of all the things I can and can't control about what happens today, not eating anything is firmly in my exclusive control." Is one of the most powerful feelings that reorients my brain for more possibilities in my life. Definitely worth training that skill.
I love it. That's a powerful perspective.
People successfully starve themselves to death because one sign of hunger is fatigue, so they just lie down, happily, and drift away, very slowly.
The body gives up hope, at some point, and just runs down the reserves. It's a hibernation function, for bad harvest years. Don't recommend turning it into a lifestyle.
This is in pretty extreme. Fatigue happens only after most fat stores are depleted and most muscle as well. Hunter gatherers would not have survived if after one failed hunt they got more tired than they were when they failed the hunt. This sort of thing sets in around 25 days of absolutely no nutrition.