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There are a couple of assumptions there which I don’t think stack up.
Being hungry doesn’t mean you’re in a fasted state.
If it did, there wouldn’t be anyone overweight as everyone would just be eating what they need and that’s it.
I’m hungry 1 hour after a large dominoes pizza, despite eating more calories than I probably need in 2 days.Unless you’ve eaten loads or late, everyone is in a fasted state in the morning. All food in stomach digested, and body largely running off your fat/glycogen reserves.
This is why some weightlifters and body builders wake up during the night to eat, and also fit in more protein digestion in 24 hours.
Also why if you’ve had a small early dinner, you often wake up ravenous, because you’re in a fasted state.Also we’re not talking multiple days of fasting, just lengthening the time where your body might use it’s fat reserves, maybe complemented with some low intensity fasted cardio.
One of the biggest battles of weight loss is trying to reducing calories while minimising the feeling of hunger (increased low calorie volume like more veg or foods with more satiety), finding something to mitigate its effects (healthy low calorie snacks), or habit forming to ignore it or push it back slightly (intermittent fasting, skipping breakfast, 5:2, meal replacement shakes)
Dieticians are great, but I’m not sure they would approve of a lot of what people are following on this thread!
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You start metabolising earlier in the day.
You have boosted youre metabolism by eating/drinking something.
Fasting only really works if youre hungry, surely? Between meals isnt a fast. Sleeping isnt a fast.
Regular fasting, in my experience, slows your metabolism. When I lived off bread and doritos for a few months nothing changed. I couldnt afford anything. One loaf per week lol it was terrible. I maintained,terrible food yes but still.
The body stores as much as it can, it doesnt know when it will be refueled. Hence why skipping breakfast makes you less hungry in the morning. Eat early. Force yourself to be hungry at lunch, skip it and youve done a fast.
Carbs and sugar (cereal,breads,fruits) arent a good breakfast really either, but its usually our go to.
The "trick" is to shock your body.
Do the opposite of what you "feel" and re-train youre metabolism.
But of course, Im no Dietician and everyones different. :)