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Fasting doesn't make you hungry all the time. After a short while the hunger just kind of goes away.

• gwd 7y ago
  FWIW I've done several extended fasts (5-6 days) and I experienced hunger the entire time. Lots of people apparently do experience what you describe; but not everyone. That said, people do who've never tried fasting seem to think that hunger will grow linearly; i.e, "If I feel this bad after 16 hours of not eating, how will I feel after 4 days?" Once my body switches to 'fasting' mode, the hunger remains, but stays at a manageable level.
  • hanniabu 7y ago
    I'm assuming the parent was referring to something more similar to like when you need to go to the bathroom. Overall the urge is there, but on an hourly basis it comes and goes. If you don't go to the bathroom and hold it in, after an hour you'll probably forget about it, and then it'll come back a few hours after that. This has been my experience with fasting where I'll get really hunger, then my body will get over it, then a few hours later I'm hungry again. Seems like it's your body going through cycles of burning fat stores or something. Like oh you're not going to eat? Better start burning a bit of fat to tide us over, then that energy runs out and that's when hunger strikes again until your body goes through another breakdown cycle.