Nice article Suesa, I have come across some examples of the benefits of fasting, I would like to try for a prolonged period when the time is right. As a student it can be an easy thing to fast being skint, but there is of course a difference in fasting and not eating much. It's no good fasting and just eating beans on toast haha, we need the vitamins and nutrients also.
One thing I'm curious about is why we get hunger pains, sometimes when i'm waiting for food to finish I get big hunger pains just before eating that sometimes me me feel sick.
Anyway thanks for the informative post :D
You can try the 16-8 way of fasting. It is a bit easier than a full 24 hours and some people find it very helpful. You fast for 16 hours a day and eat for 8 hours. So from 8:00pm-12:00 noon the following day you would fast and the hours in between you can eat. Smaller meals more often rather than one or two massive meals during those eight hours might help those stomach pains you were talking about!
Give it a shot for one day a week for a month and see how you feel! It isn't for everyone but you won't know until you try it :)
Hey, thanks for that advice, that was nice of you. It's actually a good idea, the problem I have is high metabolism i'll arrive to 1'oclock and be starving again haha.
I may just give it a try anyway haha. Thanks a lot :)
There's certainly a reason for hunger pains, which I don't know from the top of my head.
Hunger pains otherwise know as hunger pangs are caused by the strong contractions of an empty stomach.
When the stomach is empty, it contracts, this contractions causes pain and its a way of telling our body we need to eat.
However hunger pangs don't always mean a need to eat. For example when i am scared, i get these hunger pangs.
It's ok, but I'm sure you know that "a hungry man is an angry man" :p