On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Karen <laurvick@charter.net> wrote:
On another group, we were talking about hunger and a member said that if we allow ourselves to 'get hungry', then our body has already gone in to its 'conserve energy' mode, which will reduce your blood sugar level.Is there a difference between the 'shut down' hunger and the 'hunger that goes away'? or are they both the same and are we hurting ourselves by not listening to the 'message'?
Reading the book will help: it goes into more detail. But mainly, no, you can't trust the feeling of "hunger". If people could trust their hunger levels in general, no one would be fat. It is likely that if we were eating whatever the ideal diet is for a human being, our hunger signals would work a whole lot better. But if you are overweight, you can pretty much bet that the signalling is NOT working correctly.
You body doesn't "eat" the food you put in your mouth, at least not directly. Your cells use two fuels: lipids and glucose (and ketones when there isn't enough glucose). What you put in your mouth is broken down into lipids and glucose, eventually. But most Americans have enough lipids and glucose to live for a day or three, so when you feel "hungry" it is not because your body lacks fuel. The "hunger" signal is mainly there to make sure you keep restocking the supplies: do the work to get some food and eat it.
Hunger works something like a cat. If you feed the cat at 4pm every night, then the cat will bug you at 4 pm every night. It's used to eating then. Even if there is food from yesterday left in the dish. It's a habit.
So when you start Fast-5, you are basically re-training the cat, only in this case the cat wants to eat all day long, and you are training it to eat only at certain times. It will learn, and when it learns, it will eat more in line with what your body needs. But in the meantime, it will complain like crazy.
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