Talk – Health Fitness Nutrition Discussion

Yes, you certainly DO see more ads for food on TV.

I agree that the biggest issue with your first or second day without food is mostly mental.  We have been led to think that we need food to survive, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

Getting past the mental part involves finding something else to do while understanding that when we go without food, our brain behaves differently.  It has less immediate access to fuel and hasn't learned to tap into fat for energy just yet.

That training process involves removing sugar from the diet and switching from sugar burner to fat burner.

Mood is often affected during times of fasting.  I've been know to bite people's heads off, but I know why that's happeneing and have learned to to just walk away.

Part of what helps get me through a fasting day is to step outside my body as it were and become the observer.  To see what sort of effect a day without food has on emotoins, energy levels, thought processes and simply observe them without judging them or taking action on them.

It's actually kinda fun once you begin to look at it in a different way.

hey guys

Yeah i like that way of thinking too “out of body”

i think for me it made me focus more, i must admit i have not done one for a few weeks as have had the dreaded swine flu as has my rebecca, its awful let me tell you !!!!

also i would like to say that when doing a fast you know every kcal used is a kcal off your fat, as your not putting any in, further more you dont go and pig out on a burger because…. a, you have pride in yourself for doing the fast and b, you realize that that big tasty fat burger in dressing is just that a big FAT burger………:)

I long for the day i can sit down to a burger and 4 beers and pat my six pack, still as thats at least 7 stone off thats as near as i can get to that idea for a while, but am happy

sorry for being off piste for a while, will be on here more now

lee