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.)
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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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sounds like you don't have emotional food issues, basically. I was never afraid, I just have trouble maintaining motivation.
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The delirium side is clearly physiological, for example. I was tripping quite noticeably while I was at my hungriest.
But I didn't experience apathy - just the occasional furious desire to eat, subsiding after a while.
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when I was at my most unhealthy diet and ill in other ways, I found that if I went about 24 hours I'd start getting a fever and would feel quite weak. It was an alarming feeling, especially at the time (before I had any practice.)
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Yeah. I get really nauseous if I don't eat for a few hours. That doesn't happen when my diet is a-ok.
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