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Not really, it takes about ten minutes and then your body realizes you're not going to eat so it switches to economy mode and forgets about hunger for a while. Coffee does the same thing.
It's only if you do this repeatedly for about a day that you'll turn into a raging animal, start breaking furniture and call your wife a whore as you try to solve your hunger.
We don't have the same bodies ....
Give it another ten minutes ... it's amazing how long you can go without food. As long as you have something to drink, your stomach will rumble and grumble endlessly but you'll be able to function for a day or two without food. It's miserable yes, but it won't kill you.
I have gone without food for a day, including hard physical work. I'm not doubting that it's survivable and that was not the point of the post either.
"It's miserable yes"
That was the point, this is what turns me into someone who is not as pleasant to be with. Hangry is a very apt description.
I have tried it all, drinking water, coffee, tea, Mindfulness, go for a walk, stuffing meals with fiber to last longer. My mood will still be low and irritable until I eat something once hunger strikes.
The most fun is when you have gone without food for long enough that the shakes come and you need to eat something to be able to prepare food. Fun times indeed 😁
Right now, I'm playing the mind game of insomnia. When I can't sleep my mind gets the idea that I'm starving (which I'm definitely not), adding another reason it's impossible to go to sleep whether I give in or not 😞
I'm of the mind that people that get 'hangry' simply lack self control. Are you not able to think "wow, i feel bad but im not going to take that out on others"?
I'm not sure how we ended up at "taking it out on others". Those are your words. I'm talking about being irritable and yes sometimes overreacting to things that you otherwise could swallow.
Are you also of the impression that depressed people should just think "wow, this is just my brain playing tricks on me but I will just think happy thoughts instead"? It's all about self control, right?
If you can, more power to you. Please share your secrets with science.
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You ever read House of Stairs by William Sleator?
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Intermittent fasting .... it was probably a normal way for us to live as humans hundreds of years ago when food wasn't so freely available like today.
I grew up poor as an Indigenous Canadian with my family in the north. I remember being a kid and just going on breakfast (which was always oatmeal) and lunch with no other meals during the day .... and it was just normal.
You wanted a snack late at night? No, there's nothing to eat, go play with your siblings and go to bed.
And as teens and adults, if we were travelling on the land and moving from place to place for hunting/trapping/fishing, it was normal to go a day without food just to get work done on time.
This story is reflected in the Book of the Ice trilogy by Mark Lawrence, specifically the last book; I thought the perspective of the Arctic characters interesting, but exaggerated.
Though I sympathize with those in that position, it's good to know the book didn't lie.