I was having the feeling that I "really want food" right now, yet I have one bottle of olive oil and another of coconut oil. I could totally have a spoon of coconut oil and chugging it down with water, yet I have 0 desire for it.
What does that tell me? Well, I think I am not really hungry, (the body doesnt crave food), but rather glucose. Since I've always had a high carb glucose based burn energy system, now I'm kind of depleted of it, and the body is not that efficient yet at producing energy from fat, so I'm basically very tired and lethargic , but not because the body lacks reserves, but because the body usually never produces energy from those reserves (fats) but rather sugars-glucose, I'm having the impression of feeling "hungry".
Correct me if I'm mistaken, since I'm noob in fasting, but that's my idea of what is happening right now.
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There’s a certain amount of food-craving that is psychological, too.
Your brain has spent a very long time associating chewing and swallowing with the feeling of satiation.
Hunger might not just come from the content of the food itself, but from all of the various activities that go into satisfying hunger.
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I’m very fat adapted at this point (all my meals are keto), 42 hours into a fast at the moment and I think if someone put a burrito in front of me right now I would break.
I don’t think the body will ever not want carbs. It’s the easier nutrient to process and turn to energy.