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I might have believed this until a few months ago, when I started doing intermittent fasting, but not anymore. I was completely unprepared for how my body reac
by e40 10y ago
I might have believed this until a few months ago, when I started doing intermittent fasting, but not anymore. I was completely unprepared for how my body reacted to fasting. I crave less than I did before. Almost immediately, my cravings for sugary things (which has been a lifelong battle for me, even though I'm not overweight), went to zero.
The fasting method I'm employing: 3 24-hr fasts a week (from dinner to dinner Sun, Tue and Thu, so I skip breakfast and lunch M/W/F).
- cableshaft 10y agoSame with going on a low carb diet. Your cravings for sugary things pretty much goes away entirely. There's something else factoring into those urges.
- e40 10y agoI've done low carb before and never had this happen. It takes about 2 weeks of low carb for me to lose my sugar cravings. This was immediate and unexpected. A few days after the fasting started I just realized I wasn't planning my next sugar intake.
- nfc 10y agoThat's a very sensible comment, I should have expanded a bit more. I do not think that the mechanism I described is the only one influencing hunger. Another, as you said, is our craving for sugary/fatty/salty things and the means to control this type of hunger are completely different (for example fasting).