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hi and well done on your first few fasts, it wont be long before you wont even have the need for distractions as you get used to less, xx
keep busy.
drink loads.
read.
go for a walk.
go window shopping for all those new clothes you will soon be needing.
take a long bath.
tell yourself…i can have it tomorrow. ( most of us find when tomorrow is here we no longer want it)
paint your nails.
read the forums.
go swimming.
ironing.
washing.
sort your underwear draw.
OK, here’s crazy then! I ‘step outside’ my body with my mind and get curious about how hunger feels. I say to my stomach “come on then, do your worse!” and, quite why I don’t know, the hungry feeling subsides.
Then I get on with my busy day. After over 8 months of fasting my routine has changed to eating later and later so I’m looking forward to my instant porridge in my hotel room (I work away during the week a lot) at about 7pm tonight.
Then it’s a nice long bath and an early night for me. Breakfast tomorrow morning will taste wonderful!
hi
nomagicpill90
i research on the computer about fasting
health and jokes laughter helps
i do hiit exercise
THE TRUTH ABOUT EXERCISE By dr mosley
EAT FAST AND LIVE LONGER
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/110651/BBC_Horizon_2012_Eat_Fast_and_Live_Longer/
i call family & friends (i don’t talk about me or my fast just listen 2 them)
i chew cinnamon sticks
i chew xylotol gum
i still get super hungry but know that 2morrow
i will be eaing what i want
congrats
wish u continued success in this fastday lifestyle
please share w/ us ur menus ur reports
Hi Nomagicpill,
Keep busy. On one of my fast days I take my dog to agility class in the evening. While there, I never think about being hungry. In a couple of weeks my Spanish class will start again. I plan to change my other fast day to Tues. so that I fast on that class day too. By the time I am home from either of these classes, it will be late enough that I will have no problem waiting until bedtime and breakfast the next morning.
Good luck to you and may you find a class or two that will keep you interested enough not to think about being hungry.
Quick
“Annie – OK, here’s crazy then! I ‘step outside’ my body with my mind and get curious about how hunger feels. I say to my stomach “come on then, do your worse!” and, quite why I don’t know, the hungry feeling subsides.”
Great approach & one that I had forgotten about, having used it in different context.
There is a part of you that wants to be heard. And that part of you may be that part of you that is hungry. I would suggest that you acknowledge that part, and ask that part “what is your request?”.
Listen for whatever that part tells you and thank the part for doing its part in caring for you.
Reassure that part in whatever promise that you feel appropriate.
Come back.
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I like that nuance very much and I can see that it will be particularly useful when dealing with ’emotional hunger’, you know – when you know you’re not really hungry (because since fasting, I’m a lot clearer about how that feels) but when it seems that only bread, or chocolate, or a glass of wine will do.
Thanks
Annie
What I try may or may not work for others. It’s mundane stuff. Mainly, I try to: Go out, exercise (walk the dog, mostly), stay busy, drink big glasses of fizzy water, have a doze. If I’m at home it’s best not to go into the kitchen.
Also, I: Tell myself the hunger pangs will wane (they do). Tell myself my deprivation is tiny and voluntary, in contrast to the situation of millions of adults and children. Think about the achievement of fasting for long enough period (teens of hours) for cells to enter repair mode. Marvel at it being possible for a glutton like me to stay away from fridge.
(For me it tends to be rather all or nothing, so I either eat what I want or don’t eat at all for circa 18 hours or more – I don’t do the couple of tiny meals routine, because I want to fast long enough to achieve the cell repair stage the book talks about, and also because if I eat a little it just makes me hungry for more).
“Tomorrow –
Also, I: Tell myself the hunger pangs will wane (they do). Tell myself my deprivation is tiny and voluntary, in contrast to the situation of millions of adults and children. Think about the achievement of fasting for long enough period (teens of hours) for cells to enter repair mode. Marvel at it being possible for a glutton like me to stay away from fridge.”
Yes, this works & it’s more elegant in this setting:
Gently close your eyes, relaxing.
There is a part of you that wants to be heard.
And that part of you may be that part of you that is hungry. I would suggest that you acknowledge that part, and ask that part “what is your request?”.
Listen for whatever that part tells you and thank the part for doing its part in caring for you.
Reassure that part in whatever promise that you feel appropriate.
Tell myself (that part) the hunger pangs will wane (they do). Tell myself my deprivation is tiny and voluntary, in contrast to the situation of millions of adults and children. Think about the achievement of fasting for long enough period (teens of hours) for cells to enter repair mode. Marvel at it being possible for a glutton like me to stay away from fridge.
Come back.
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Since I’m a guy, I tell myself to “man up”, which works for a day at least. I doubt that it would work much longer, so it’s fortunate that it doesn’t have to. I also think about diabetes and having multiple amputations or heart disease and having a catheter threaded up from my groin to my heart. In choosing my suffering, I’ve decided to go with mild hunger.
the best book i ever read was other than 😉
Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life by Maxwell Maltz (Aug 15, 1989)
& now they have a newer version
The New Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz and Dan S. Kennedy
basically it is about thinking feeling & visualizing backed of by actual scientific experiments.
athletes use his principles
in my nut shell
u create ur own reality
goodnight all
It occurred to me that our focus rather than forgetting to be hungry, would be to remember to be cleansed.
As I start to think more of fasting as a cleansing period, it then shifts my thinking completely.
With fasting, our bodies are cleansed.
Toxins are being removed.
I also notice that I clean my house at this time as well.
My mind also starts to be cleansed, and I’ll start reading books that I want to read where did not have the time before.
I also cleanse my body by strengthening and cardio training.
I also have moments to reflect spiritually.
My wife and I, since we are both doing the 5:2, are also experiencing closer moments together.
And so, I will remember to cleanse
For the rest of my life.
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Not a tip, just an observation. It’s 4.30pm on a fast day (I’m 12 weeks into my 5:2) and I haven’t eaten a thing. Drunk lots of water as always. And it was in no way intended as usually on a fast day I have a bit of something around noon (around 200 cals) and then I really feel hungry for my remaining 300 calories about 5pm and can rarely wait til later for my supper. Very odd for me not to have needed to eat something. I’m sure I’m in the camp that if you eat anything at all it stimulates the hunger. But I’ve done massess of work today, no headaches, and yes of course I’m hungry but it’s not awful. So it looks like I can have a 500 cal meal shortly. I’m off to the veg patch to see what I can fancy with my prawns!
I can’t believe it’s already almost 5months for me!
Am finding I look forward to fast days now and accept my hunger pang at 3 or 4 in the afternoon quite easily. I eat breakfast on a fast day then nothing until the following breakfast and have even come to enjoy the smell of my husband cooking his dinner. Savouring the smell not the taste.
I also relate to the cleansing connection. I feel great the day after my fast but would also add I’ve been very motivated to declutter and spring clean. Thought I was turning minimalist but maybe it’s a side effect of fasting:)
there is actually a nu book
& a video interview
from the author
http://screen.yahoo.com/nail-polish-helped-lose-over-110000621.html
she said paint ur nails
u can’t put ur hand in a bag of chips
cooking etc
by the time they dry
ur hunger is gone lol 🙂
wiltldnyUSA thanks so much for sharing the Horizon programme about the 5:2 diet!
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/110651/BBC_Horizon_2012_Eat_Fast_and_Live_Longer/
I’ve read the book but after watching this, its puts things into perspective properly for me. Seeing is believing!
vickimummy
thanks
u may call me usa
u might like this link
everything a newbie might want 2 c, use & read
or poster
http://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/everything-a-newbie-might-want-2-c-use-read/#post-14709
keep me posted on what u think?
contribute something if u want
happy nonfastdays & fastdays & 4/2/1 or 3/3/1 or adf w/1 or 6/1 😀
uhhhh no.
If you are hungry the best thing you can do is EAT.
People should not be starving themselves like this. New studies show that fat doesn’t make you fat and carbs are the real enemy. (If you want more information find Michelle Mozel on instagram) No one should have to FORGET that they’re hungry. If you go on a detox diet and get rid of sugar completely, you will most likely lose weight. You need to excersize too, but don’t work yourself so hard that you will burn fat off, because that will take too long and end up with side affects such as sleep loss, depression, and even WEIGHT GAIN.
However, if you don’t want to go on a detox diet or take my suggestions, just don’t starve yourself like this. NO FASTING. Your body is beautiful. You don’t need to be particularily skinny to be beautiful.
Thank you and I hope you take my advice. Again for more information follow Michelle Mozel on Instagram.
gabby, have you read any of the research on the benefits of fasting? That’s what this site is about so if you have alternative methods perhaps there’s a more appropriate place for sharing them. And if you want to find out more about intermittent fasting then Dr. Michael Mosley’s BBC documentary is a great place to start.
As for dealing with hunger when fasting the very best advice I’ve ever had is keeping active. Take a walk, go for a visit, clean out a closet, file all those things you were going to get to some day or put those photos in an album. Being absorbed in something else is a great distraction.
Gabby,
If you are overweight then by default you don’t have a healthy relationship with food. Of course there can be many reasons for this but that’s another story. The concept of fasting is not new and goes back thousands of years, many religions incorporate the concept as do many societies. The concept of eating 3 meals and snacks each day is however only about 50 years old. Mostly promoted by food manufacturers and adopted by pseudo nutritional “experts”.
People bandy around the term starvation when what they mean is hunger. You do not enter starvation mode by skipping one day’s food intake. That is why you store fat, to take into account periods of non eating. I suspect that you currently fast right now. What do you think happens when you go to sleep for 8 hours? You are fasting. So extending this fasting period by a few hours is not a big drama.
Because of our modern eating lifestyle many overweight people are unable to differentiate between the two hormones ghrelin and leptin. Leptin tells your brain that you are full and satiated. Ghrelin tells your brain that you are hungry. This clear signalling to the brain in normal weight people becomes very confused in overweight people.
If you don’t want to fast using 5:2 then I really don’t know what your motivation in being on this website is?
With regards to “distraction” if hungry, just go for a gentle walk for 30 minutes and have a cup of coffee when you get back. Make sure you drink lots of water. Yesterday was my water fast day and I went swimming and did a 7km hike through the surrounding hills. Not a problem.
I do NOT recommend anyone do this if you have just started fasting. It takes a few months for your liver to adapt to fasting and accessing stored fats readily. Give yourself 6 months to adapt and then you can basically do any activity that you would normally do, even if it is reasonably demanding.
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