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The hunger thing is my biggest issue with fasting.
It isnt really about whether i can endure the discomfort - of course i can - for a while.
But historically, every attempt i have made to use hunger as a diet-tool (in 30+ years of dieting) has ended with disaster, and falling into a feeding frenzy.
I've experienced every stage - the buoyant fasting high, the slight spaciness, the fervent enthusiasm, the sense of revulsion at the sight of an egg yoke... But months or days later, my appetite ALWAYS slips out of control, with a vengeance. Rebound. End up bigger than the start.
So i have eventually learned that slower, gentler, and sustainably is the only thing that my body actually responds to in a positive way (unfortunately, this revelation was AFTER i had messed up my metabolism and switched on my thrifty gene)
So I'm still checking out whether intermittent fasting works for my current body.
I have a theory, you see, that all those years that i 'skipped breakfast and feel fine' are what trained my body to create a silly-high dawn phenomenon.
I like the sound of 'slower, gentler, and sustainably'.
And your words on the dawn phenomenon (DP) have been very helpful for me for sure as a fellow DPer - what a great thread going there!
So my challenge is, here, is it possible for me to be slow, gentle, and weight loss sustainable?- on an IF. I hope so.
Alas, for me, hunger is never gentle. Even when it just involves getting through most of the morning without eating. (I am sitting here dreaming of my boysenberry paleo muffin, which I will pop in the microwave and smear in butter, and eat with a lovely strong cup of coffee. I will have to wait another 2 and a half hours.) (And and but, I won't still be sitting here.)
Also, at the end of the week I am going to have to swap day for night again, cold and wet season for summer, switching global hemispheres, so that will be interesting to see how that affects my BG, my DP - and the IF! (Yes - it always does. Our rhythms are circadian rhythms - it links up with our exposure to light, which links up with hormones and so on, and in my experience, takes about a week for BG levels, including the DP. The only time when I have delightfully normal looking fasting blood glucose is after a VLCD, or when my body still thinks it's pre-dinner ie 5pm, at 6am, having the done the swap. ) This will be my first swapping day for night on an IF.
And I won't even try sticking to it whilst actually traversing the globe! Crossing all time zones is hard enough as a budget traveller like I am, without turning down the airplane food . That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!