What do you do when you know that you aren’t really hungry, but you wanna eat???
Right now, I’m sans kids and hubby (he’s taken them to the inlaws’), and I’m fasting. When I get home, I’ll clean some and watch some Netflix, but I’m finding some great distraction sitting in a boujie coffee shop having an Ethiopian Pourover and a sparkling water (they have it on tap here - self serve and free… WHAT???).
That said, what do you do?
Also, here’s to my first post here. WOO!
I know that feeling, it’s not like “Carb hunger” (Where you just have to eat!). I call it “Mouth hunger” where the wish is more for taste in your mouth. I am convinced that some people mistake the one for the other, and that it severely impacts some of those who are transitioning to fat adaption.
When I was coming off carbs - some years ago now, I used vaping to get some flavour in my mouth and that worked well. (I was never a smoker.)
However, I have long ago tailed off vaping, I just didn’t need it any more.
Distraction is great, if I have something to do, I just don’t think of eating!
When I am not distracted, I use small chocolate “Fat bombs” that I make from the darkest plain chocolate I can buy - usually 87% - and cocoa butter, in a 50:50 ratio. I melt the two together, sometimes adding a few drops of vanilla or other flavouring - and my “Special ingredient” a few crystals of menthol, making the result minty. - then pour into silicon ice trays / chocolate moulds. These go into the fridge to cool down and stay there until I feel the need to satisfy that mouth hunger. Then I take one from the fridge and let it melt in my mouth.
“Head hunger” used to hit me like clockwork on day 3 of my weekly extended fast. The first symptom was always that I would inexplicably be looking be looking at photos on a keto recipe site without recollection of having opened the browser window. 
Generally, it hits in the evening when gherilin hit’s it’s daily peak. The trick that always worked for me was to have the rule that I will never, ever break a fast at night. If I was really feeling the gherlin hunger, I would always tell myself, “If I’m hungry in the morning I’ll break the fast”. This worked because I would never be hungry the next morning, I would always wake up fit as a fiddle with no hunger whatsoever, even as I was cooking bacon and eggs for my kids. YMMV
The longest fast I have done so far is 24 hours. I had coffee in am and drank a cup of chicken broth at “lunch” time and drank water and sugar free PowerAid. I think what kept me going was knowing I was going to eat dinner! My mental hunger is pretty bad too.