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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1750119" data-attributes="member: 150927">Thanks for that [USER=459333]@AdamJames[/USER] - always good to have a giggle over our trials and tribulations in the pursuit of insulin sensitivity and properly regulated blood glucose <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite23" alt=":cat:" title="Cat    :cat:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cat:" />. Fasting has a funny side indeed. And all the power to you if you really did go hiking for five hours! And it is one of those very real things that physical activity makes you hungry. We would be a funny kind of animal if it did not. (Well - funnier than we already are! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />!)I'm one of those folks who probably has very highly functioning hunger hormones, so I feel hunger keenly, and it does not drop or go 'low-key' during any stage of any kind of semi-starvation regime in the pursuit of good health. And I have done every kind of fasting imaginable in order to try and knock the last stubborn vestiges of insulin resistance and other blood glucose dysfunctions on the head!  And hunger for me, does not ever go away. Anyway, what I have found, over the last three years of intermittently fasting, and intermittent fasting, is that it certainly gets easier. Much. I think back on to the first three-day water fast went on six months after diagnosis, and it bears no resemblance to how I experience my fairly regular three-day fasts now. MUCH easier to bear it all now. My body is in much better nick, I guess. And I can tolerate the hunger much better. But the hunger does not go away.I can only do physical exercise or activity on day one of a fast, ever - due to lack of energy, by the way. And I am a normally physically active and fit person. Just a heads up on the range of 'normal' out there. And the worst side effect of consecutive-day fasting is not really being able to mix with other human beings (other than my nearest and dearest) - no way! To say emotion and moods are raw, and close to the surface during periods of days of not eating is a huge understatement. (I will add that I don't come in to the forum either during such periods to have a wee chat <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.) So I absolutely could not no-food water fast whilst working in close proximity with other folks. </blockquote>

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