Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Green tea with Stevia

Monday, January 25, 2010

Re: [fast5] Green tea with Stevia

Dehydration is definitely a factor for some people. However, tea/coffee also
contain caffeine, which can counteract cortisol. Cortisol is the hormone that
your body sometimes over-produces when you feel "hungry", and it's the
one that can lead to "the shakes" and fuzzy thinking etc. Sometimes a
bite of ANY food can cause the body to release enough insulin to
counteract the cortisol ... lemon juice or vinegar can work too. Exercise
can work also, by releasing adrenaline.

The way to tell if it is dehydration or cortisol would be to experiment:
try plain water and see if it works too.

It's hard to realize at the time, but "hunger" is only tangentially related
to the body "being out of food". Your body usually has PLENTY of "food"
to eat, and the stuff you eat takes awhile to turn into a usable form anyway.
"Hunger" is basically your body's way of coercing you into eating ... and
sometimes it does that too much, even when you don't need the
calories.

Dehydration, on the other hand, is a very real condition that is easily
solved by drinking water. Or sometimes, water with electrolytes.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:28 PM, afwitmer <afwitmer@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Today was my hardest day yet--the 7th day. About 2-3 hours before my window opened I started feeling a little light headed or unsteady. So I went out and drank some Green Tea I made with stevia. Within a few minutes, I felt remarkably better, and I was fine until my window opened at 5 PM.
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> Kind of wierd how a glass of Green tea could make me perk up and feel better, even though there was 0 calories?
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> I havent been drinking like I should during the day and my fasting period. Do you think dehydration/hunger together could have made me feel unsteady/light headed a bit?
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