After the hunger fades you just feel sorta empty/light but eventually that fades too and you stop noticing it. Atleast in my experience
You’re hungry.
There are many contexts for a calorie deficit, if you are too fat already, a calorie deficit is bringing you back to optimal.
In this context, it’s important to recognize your body is an amazing homeostasis machine, it wants to stay at optimal.
If you don’t eat processed foods, anything that comes in a box. If you eat a very low carb diet, such as carnivore or keto plant based diet. You’re managing your insulin levels to normal, optimal ranges, which allows the entire body to operate its homeostasis magic. And even though you’re in a calorie deficit, you don’t feel hungry. Your body will want to maintain a calorie deficit, till it’s back to normal.
The important key here, is to eat whole foods. Basically anything people ate before 1900, you can eat, and you will feel full with the right time, and you will be in a calorie deficit if you need to lose weight.
The big problem with processed food, sugar foods, the carb rich environment people find themselves in nowadays… These diets tend to spike glucose, maintain highly insulin levels all the time, reduce ghrelin production. Processed food specifically is designed to not satiate, to encourage continual hunger. Doritos are famous for engineering the perfect constant craving, through food science.
If you’re always having elevated insulin levels, your body is always trying to be in an anabolic state, it’s hard to burn fat. Your body only stores fat, all of your energy reserves are in fat. With a few exceptions in the muscles and a tiny amount of glycation in the liver. Since your body cannot meaningfully store sugar, or carbs, only the amount in the bloodstream remains, so you’re always hungry because you’re running out of energy… I believe only 5 g of sugar can be in the bloodstream at any one time. You burn through that pretty quickly, in a hour or two, and hungry again.
In short, this is the food addiction cycle.
If you want to lose 1 lb in a month, or gain 1 lb, you need to consume or burn 3,500 calories. Or 116 calories a day. Or 38 calories per meal… Easy right? … In the US, calorie estimates are allowed to be off by as much as 25%, and that’s just packaged food, forget any restaurant or line cook being exactly precise with portions… So for 2,500 average daily diet, over three meals, the margin of error is 208 calories. Your target is 38 calories. You’re trying to do something within the margin of error of all of your estimates. Calorie counting is a very difficult game to do! The deck is stacked against you. This is why it’s important to allow the homeostasis machinery in your body to handle all of this through satiation. It’s going to do the right thing if you let it
pretty cool, i highly recommend.
all the people saying"hungry" are incorrect, your body locks into new eating patterns pretty quickly.
if you start OMAD, one meal a day, after a couple days you don’t get hungry until the food window you normally eat at.
fasting gave me a sense of control over my body that I hadn’t really accessed before.
I also just felt a little high after a few days, so things are a lot more interesting in general while fasting.
I like fasting, I do omad everyday, 2 days every now and then and I’ll fast 4 days to a week occasionally.
you know what else is really cool about fasting, my runny nose and all the little itches and all that stuff are gone.
I should stop talking, I can talk about this forever.
give it a whirl, fasting is fun.
saves a ton of time too, once you realize how much time you spend commuting to/from or consuming food or using the bathroom because you eat three or five or seven times a day.
Time that could be spent on lemmy answering questions about not eating hahaha.
