It is funny sensation..'feeling brilliant for not having to prepare or eat anything'....all that spare time in one's hands!I'm pleased you find talking about hunger interesting - I think it is an important topic in a fasting thread! . As anyone who reads my posts know - I have not found that hunger miraculously disappears on day 2 (such a nice idea!), (Dr Fung and Prof Taylor both insist that this happens regularly), although I do understand that it can for some. But I can live with hunger much much better, and have my body seems to have retrained itself (I don't have hunger pains at all anymore - thank goodness), (and I only experience some mild tummy rumblings rarely).
I believe I get through the work day without getting noticeably irritable (although ask my family what I am like when I get home?! That may be another thing. Grumpy, is a nice word for it, and I believe folk on VLCDs talk about being a bit, er, grumpy.) Currently, I have two fasting days a week - close-ish to 24 hours, and I always inform my loved ones that it is a fasting day - and they adjust their expectations of my mood when I get home before dinner accordingly! (It can't be too bad, as I am still reminding Herr Svea, on fasting days, that an earlier dinner at 6ish might be better for everyone than a late dinner! But you might want to ask him how, ah, tenderly I suggest that earlier dinner time!)
I don't tell anyone at work that I am not eating two days a week there. Everyone is too busy and the office is physically very big, to notice, which suits me fine. At lunchtime I take a cup of broth, or a coffee with cream outside and walk around with it for a half hour.
Not packing a lunch two days a week out of five - is fantastic! I have to say. Not having nuts at 3 in the afternoon not so fantastic. But today is a non-fasting day! So I need to get off to work with my rather large packed lunch.
What I remember from my early years fasting and from the recent one...the first two days I have been have been having to 'fight' with one's brain and curb down the habitual need for the eating and one feels like one's jaws could do with work out with food...then comes the 'I could eat something' feel, little niggling 'I miss it'...and occasional 'I REALLY could do with some food'..but then comes the third day and things get much easier. Tummy feels empty but not in a 'hungry way'...and usually it carried on like that, but I never did do any longer than a week. This recent attempt didn't go so well..the third day was brilliant, but then it did go down hill and quickly. Seems like I still have lots to learn and try to find new recipe that works.
I can't say fasting does effect hugely with my moods, which I'm surprised because normally when I get ready to eat/hungry...I tend to get bit snappy or short with the 'sense of humour' department....and my OH does tend to get carried away with teasing if not issued firm warnings in advance...so he ends up being receiving end.
I do suspect that even I did drink broth, I still didn't get enough salts in me...as my skin did go really wrinkly and it lost its elasticity...like I was dehydrated. My skin is back in its 'old' self ( don't use or need moisturizers)..and my carb intake is getting slightly lower and lower again...having some ketones days too (experiencing some killer breath's)...so I'm quite nicely lowering myself into another attempt into fasting session again in couple of weeks time.