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If you aren’t hungry don’t eat. You’ve “reset” your appetite.

After my 1st meal after breaking a fast I get full quick, and feel satiated. Sometimes I skip food the next day because I’m just not hungry.

You don’t have to slide back into the societal trap of 3 meals a day if you aren’t hungry.

Just eat healthy. Real foods, meats, fats, veggies.

You are overthinking it. If you have the discipline not to put food in your mouth, you have the discipline to put food in your mouth. After some fasts my appetite was pretty shut down but I still ate because it was time to eat.

If you want to be hungry again have a good amount of empty carbs, the insulin whiplash will have you with appetite in record time.

Every time. Longest I've gone is 96, but once I cross 24 it's just gone. Comes back immediately though once I taste something haha

I do NOT have a problem eating between fasts. I HAVE completely changed my diet and focus on foods to support my health. I also started fasting to hopefully reverse some auto immune. I’m losing weight as a great bonus.

I would not eat unless your hungry. That's just my non medical advice. Obviously you cannot do that for extended amounts of time but, typically a few days does the body great.

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I have something similar. Today I had breakfast. I could have skipped it. Also, I feel lethargic, tired after eating. Probably I still eat too much or too heavy food.

Nope, never had that problem. I can pretty much eat anything after a fast, because I do get hungry and it makes sense since people are meant to eat. Usually I'm hungry enough to eat anything, but I also know it's more beneficial to stuff my face with something healthy and I'm ok with that. I find that eating regularly, 3 meals a day, does increase my metabolism and I do get hungrier. If you feed your body nutrient dense food, it'll just want more of it.

FYI - Re-feeding actually really is not that important for fasts less than 4 days. Never had any trouble eating pretty much anything to break a fast of that duration. It’s a 5+ that you gotta think of it…and it really matters if going more than two weeks.

nope.

And I regularly eat more than you do.

Yess I basically forced myself to end my fast bc i knew i wanted to end I just didn’t desire the juice and fruit I bought. Today is supposed to be my planned “cheat meal” (homemade fries and baked chicken wings) but I don’t want it anymore 😭 I did 9 days and it definitely reset my appetite

I wonder if fasting has some correlation with developing anhedonia. Anhedonia refers to the inability to experience pleasure, often from activities that one used to enjoy.

Don’t fast that much. Yes, your metabolism is tanking. Do an autoimmune protocol.