How do you stop yourself eating when f... - Fasting and Furious
How do you stop yourself eating when fasting, Stoozie's post prompted this, it's a multiple choice and please say what other is.
Please select all that apply:
Water, exercise or gaming.
Main thing you can do is to divert your mind to something else and focus on things which you like or interested in, taking away focus from eating as we always did before. Don't make food your priority of life. Eat simple food dishes with maximum nutrition and more protein/fat content for you to stay satiated for longer time. Still if you feel hungry, eat dry fruits like walnuts, almonds or black dates for instant energy during eating window during winters. IF (intermittent fasting) allows an eating window of few hours so if you are doing 12-12, 18-6, 5-2, 16-8 you can always eat something during that window as I suggested. In summers, you can prefer green fruits like Papaya, Watermelon, Mango, red/black grapes as these fruits keep you hydrated as most fruits contains maximum water content than grains or dry fruits. But, out of eating window, that's when you are fasting for 12 hours, 16 hours, 18 hours overnight, if you feel hungry and there is formation of gas due to hunger (yes, gas formation is a common side effect of empty stomach), you can drink lot of water at least. Drinking water can kill your hunger for sometime.
Have a coffee!
Yes, when we don't eat for long time, we do feel more energetic. Eating always makes us feel dizzy and lazy for at least two hours...it happens with me. So, I am trying hard to keep meals to 2 meals a day if possible. But I do feel hungry if I haven't eaten for long particularly in the morning, and for that time I do as I suggested above. Drinking just water can be sufficient most of the times as our body needs water but we identify as being hunger. I do not feel hungry in evening.
Yeah, may be that is the reason carbs responsible for feeling dizzy and lazy..but I am pure vegetarian and all plant foods/grains are atleast 60% carbs. So, if I eat too less, I feel devoid of energy and if I eat enough for sufficient energy for me to go through, I feel little dizzy...since I was in college when I was not diabetic and was eating hardly 50 g carbs in one meal and highly active...used to go on bicycle on college and school. So, my point is most of the people might be feeling little dizzy after eating even if they eat moderate carbs like you. For me, even if I eat only dry fruits and no grains, I feel that way for some time...dry fruits in very small amount like walnuts or almonds. So, my argument is we feel dizzy because we don't get enough energy for doing any work which we need to do with concentration like listen to lectures or videos or reading something to understand. This is because energy in our body is not available for this activity as the energy we have is diverted totally to digest the food we eat. That is why in India, our ancient Ayurvedic system of medicine says to take the nap of at least half an hour after lunch on left side as stomach is situated on left side of our body. Most of the people in India who are self employed do take time out to sleep for sometime after lunch and this is the reason I explained above.
You said "I am pure vegetarian and all plant foods/grains are atleast 60% carbs." I'm not sure what you actually mean by plant foods. Could you say which foods you have in mind? Thanks.
All grains like wheat, rice, corn, millets & pulses, lentils, many fruits have approximately 60% carbs.
i.e. if you eat 20 g of any of above, approx 12 g will be carbohydrates in it. Difference is just some are simple carbs & some are complex carbs. Complex carbs has more fibres in it & so it doesn't cause sugar spikes.
There is glycemic index & glycemic load based on these characteristics which is measured to give you idea which food causes sugar spikes & which not & glycemic load tells you how much total carbs you take in a serving
Other means once I make up my mind, I am disciplined enough to tell myself not to worry about a few hunger pangs.
Yes, and that hunger pangs actually go away after sometime as they come in waves (as per Dr. Jason Fung of Canada), if you have learnt to handle it, just let go the time for few minutes when this wave is heightened. It will surely go away and fat burning/autophagy gets initiated. I have known that fat burning is only initiated after 14 hours of fasting...i.e. 14 hours of last meal.
My other is to have a cup of herbal tea 
Because you don't want your weight to drop?
Yes I do eat boiled Moong (whole green gram) twice a week at least. Peas sometimes, chickpeas once in a while & pulses in various preparations. Moong is the best of all as it is easier to digest than other lentils or pulses. But again, all pulses & lentils too have 60% carbs. But high amount of protein in it with good fibres makes it ideal for slow release of carbs & avoid having sugar spikes & resulting insulin response
Moderation team