Not sure I know what "hunger" is supposed to mean to most people. I have exactly two relationships with needing to eat:
"Eh, it can wait."
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"More, more. I need more! MORE!"
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challenged my view on hunger. Turns out, my hunger every 4 hours was <gasp> vastly different than hunger after 9 days.
It was helpful. Also started an experiment into pain that I curse him over.
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Hahah, yeah starvation hunger and "this is roughly when I usually eat, right?" hunger are so, so different!
9 day fast? Impressive.
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Hint: headache, lethargy, lack of focus, irritability, and shaky aren’t true hunger symptoms. These also happen when suddenly stopping ingestion of substances such as tobacco or alcohol. The body habituates a response in anticipation. That diminishes with time.
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I've experienced this! Both the shakes/irritability and the diminishing symptoms when increasing fasting periods over time. It's amazing we have social internalised this notion that hunger makes us basically non-functional after just a few hours of not eating.
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I had done 16/8 intervall fasting for roughly 10 months and trained myself to be „hungry“ at 11:20. Turns out that after 10 days of not going to lunch/breakfast then, no more „hunger“. Now I only eat in the early evenings. Cutting out oil/refined sugar/salt helped.
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Yes. I often find if I go to a resturant or eat something decadent the next morning I feel those little hunger niggles. If I wait a while they vanish.