I've been trying out fasting over the past 6 months or so. I watched the BBC documentary (Eat, Fast & Live Longer) and read Jason Fung's book (Complete Guide to Fasting) and decided I'd see if I could do it; mostly to lose weight but the health improvements often cited seemed great as well.
For me it turned out it to be easier to do than I thought. I had a mental barrier in my head that going without a meal or two would put me in some sort of dangerous state where my body couldn't function. Once I realized that wasn't the case I was able to plow through increasingly long periods of time without eating. Things I've noticed:
* being h-angry is a real thing. ;-) Make sure you have a low-stress time window to do the fasting in
* drink a lot of water
* hunger comes in waves, you'll get to a point where you feel super hungry, it'll usually pass after some time.
* maybe it's placebo but I recognize a stronger ability to focus when I'm in the midst of a fasting period
* if you get super hungry, just eat. don't beat yourself up over it
* i've generally learned to NOT tell people you're fasting, they think you're crazy (immediately they associate it with anorexia, etc)
* again, don't forget to drink water
For me it turned out it to be easier to do than I thought. I had a mental barrier in my head that going without a meal or two would put me in some sort of dangerous state where my body couldn't function. Once I realized that wasn't the case I was able to plow through increasingly long periods of time without eating. Things I've noticed:
* being h-angry is a real thing. ;-) Make sure you have a low-stress time window to do the fasting in * drink a lot of water * hunger comes in waves, you'll get to a point where you feel super hungry, it'll usually pass after some time. * maybe it's placebo but I recognize a stronger ability to focus when I'm in the midst of a fasting period * if you get super hungry, just eat. don't beat yourself up over it * i've generally learned to NOT tell people you're fasting, they think you're crazy (immediately they associate it with anorexia, etc) * again, don't forget to drink water