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Intermittent fasting gets easier with time for many different reasons. Your body learns to differentiate hunger from the feeling of not being sated. You learn

Intermittent fasting gets easier with time for many different reasons. Your body learns to differentiate hunger from the feeling of not being sated. You learn to exercise willpower which is good not just for fasting but in general. Your body trains metabolic pathways that are normally dormant or active for a very short time of day. Your body learns to recognize and switch metabolism faster, causing lesser and shorter "hangover" effect. I am on/off intermittent fasting (ie. sometimes stop, mainly due to social demands), but I noticed it became easier to start intermittent fasting.

DoreenMichele 6y ago
When you are too broke to buy food, will power has nothing to do with it. In my case, when I say it has "gotten easier," I mean that, for example, it takes a much longer time and a much more significant restriction on calories to provoke vomiting. There is a long history of me vomiting in reaction to doing things that are beneficial to my condition. Some years ago, I used to throw up all day about three days out of the month for up to sixteen hours. The last time fasting caused significant vomiting for me was around December 31st of last year. It was after two days of more extreme circumstances than usual in terms of being underfed and was on the heels of a longer period of having trouble getting enough to eat. It was incredibly miserable and took a month to recover from, but as is typical for such incidents it also permanently improved my baseline functioning. Years ago, I asked around and was able to determine that part of what I vomit up is likely bile. I end up bringing up a great deal of foul-tasting fluid. I sometimes throw up after lunch and sometimes my lunch stays down. It is common for me to only vomit foul fluids. (Edit: What I mean is that sometimes immediately after eating, I throw up foul fluids and the food I just ate stays down.) The incident at the end of last December did not involve foul fluids. Instead, I threw up large quantities of thick gunk. It was torture and if I wasn't absolutely certain that this was going to resolve soon and would lead to me being permanently improved because of it, I would have done my damnedest to kill myself that day because it was just so awful. When I was too exhausted to stand up any longer and too dehydrated to keep throwing up, etc. I ran a bath. Laying in the bath helped take the edge off my misery enough for me to fall asleep for a while in the bath. Since then, I mostly don't throw up in reaction to being underfed for just a day. I used to routinely throw up at lunch time on semi-fasting days, which means after maybe half a day of mostly not eating. It now tends to take two days or longer before vomiting commences.
- lmilcin 6y ago
  I am not trained doctor and I don't have knowledge of your specific condition. My advice, I can assume, applies only to healthy adult people who are also not pregnant and not far from normal build, are not working hard and are of material situation that allows to choose whatever diet they want (which I assume is most of western world).
  - DoreenMichele 6y ago
    It was a perfectly fine comment. Just taking the opportunity to add some info. Take care.

DoreenMichele 6y ago

When you are too broke to buy food, will power has nothing to do with it. In my case, when I say it has "gotten easier," I mean that, for example, it takes a much longer time and a much more significant restriction on calories to provoke vomiting. There is a long history of me vomiting in reaction to doing things that are beneficial to my condition. Some years ago, I used to throw up all day about three days out of the month for up to sixteen hours. The last time fasting caused significant vomiting for me was around December 31st of last year. It was after two days of more extreme circumstances than usual in terms of being underfed and was on the heels of a longer period of having trouble getting enough to eat. It was incredibly miserable and took a month to recover from, but as is typical for such incidents it also permanently improved my baseline functioning. Years ago, I asked around and was able to determine that part of what I vomit up is likely bile. I end up bringing up a great deal of foul-tasting fluid. I sometimes throw up after lunch and sometimes my lunch stays down. It is common for me to only vomit foul fluids. (Edit: What I mean is that sometimes immediately after eating, I throw up foul fluids and the food I just ate stays down.) The incident at the end of last December did not involve foul fluids. Instead, I threw up large quantities of thick gunk. It was torture and if I wasn't absolutely certain that this was going to resolve soon and would lead to me being permanently improved because of it, I would have done my damnedest to kill myself that day because it was just so awful. When I was too exhausted to stand up any longer and too dehydrated to keep throwing up, etc. I ran a bath. Laying in the bath helped take the edge off my misery enough for me to fall asleep for a while in the bath. Since then, I mostly don't throw up in reaction to being underfed for just a day. I used to routinely throw up at lunch time on semi-fasting days, which means after maybe half a day of mostly not eating. It now tends to take two days or longer before vomiting commences.

lmilcin 6y ago
I am not trained doctor and I don't have knowledge of your specific condition. My advice, I can assume, applies only to healthy adult people who are also not pregnant and not far from normal build, are not working hard and are of material situation that allows to choose whatever diet they want (which I assume is most of western world).
- DoreenMichele 6y ago
  It was a perfectly fine comment. Just taking the opportunity to add some info. Take care.