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It's actually pretty easy to do without food labels. Apply this simple test: are you feeling dizzy from low blood sugar and is your stomach hurting from hunger?
by anon4 12y ago
It's actually pretty easy to do without food labels. Apply this simple test: are you feeling dizzy from low blood sugar and is your stomach hurting from hunger?
If yes, then congratulations - you're burning more calories than you're eating. If no, then don't eat for a while. If no and you're actually feeling even a little full, stop eating, right now.
You'll get used to the lower calorie input after a while and the feeling of hunger won't be as sharp.
- Evgeny 12y agoIt's actually pretty easy to do without food labels. Apply this simple test: are you feeling dizzy from low blood sugar and is your stomach hurting from hunger? It actually wouldn't work in each and every case. I practise intermittent fasting, up to two days, and quite often I wouldn't feel dizzy and my stomach wouldn't hurt, at least as long as I have plenty of water. But I'm sure I'm burning more than I receive on fasting days!
- randallsquared 12y agoAs Evgeny says, fasting doesn't necessarily cause those symptoms. I've fasted for a day or two at a time as an adult (and about two weeks once as a fat teen). Hunger as a physical sensation is probably not usual thing to feel in the West (or, at least, in America). As an obese American, it takes more than 24 hours of fasting for me to be physically hungry; the vast majority of the time I eat for social reasons, or from boredom. In my social circles, the most common response to a question about food is "I could eat" rather than "Yes, I'm hungry", since the latter is never literally true.