FFF - Fasting Food Fantacies

(Adam Foard) #1

Fasting Experience:
1 - 24 hour fast (a few weeks ago)
1 - 60 hour fast (last week)

Previously: Toward the end of my first EF I became completely engrossed in internet food porn. I skipped the gym and went home and cooked bacon to break my fast instead of pushing it out to the full 72 hours. During this fast I wasn’t consuming much extra salt, and was using HWC in my coffee.

Currently: In the middle of my second EF, shooting for 72 hours

This time, no extra fats, and having “salt candies” periodically (sucking on a rock of sea salt). I feel great!

I don’t feel particularly hungry. I’ll just find myself fantasizing about various favorite recipes or the meals prep’ed in my freezer. I know parts of my daily routing play into this, like lunch/dinner time, or driving past a favorite restaurant.

Getting to the point: Does anyone else have intense daydreams about food while they are fasting? Is this just old habits fighting for survival?

P.S. I also develop the super sense of smell @richard has talked about.

(TJ Borden) #2

Oh yeah, totallly. I’m always hooked on the “what did you keto today” thread and daydream about all the stuff I can make once I break. Then when I do break I don’t usually actually make any of the stuff I was dreaming about.

#3

Strangely, I tend to spend much of my time fasting in the kitchen, cooking. I recently did a 70 hour fast and spent much of the time over a kettle of hot lard, frying pork rinds.