Apparently after 3 to 4 days it gets a lot easier. I've always wimped out day 3, just before it's supposed to get easy.
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The horror period is an expression of your psychologically maintained sense of hunger, i.e. habit.
Seems to be worse if your diet is bad, too. My worst was when I was drinking rather too much and eating a lot of sugar.
It does get better, though. A lot better.
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But it's not an exaggeration to say there are a lot of westerners alive today who have no idea what hunger actually feels like.
(It doesn't just feel like intense cravings, and often doesn't feel like that at all.)
Reminds me, it's been probably 6 years since my last fast. Probably about time for another.
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oh, I've gone without food involuntarily in the past. While working at manual labor jobs, too. Fun, fun.
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I wasn't talking about you. ;)
But I think that must also be rather different from what I've experienced.
I was never afraid, for example, since I could always just start eating again.
A lot of the stuff Hamsun wrote in Hunger is foreign to me, even as a lot makes keen sense.
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