WTH is wrong with me?? So did my 8 day fast, which ended LAST Friday. It was only going to be 3 days but it turned into 8. Oh well, shit happens. Felt really good until day 8 came along and I think my BS dropped way low… shakes, anxiety feeling, little dizzy, so knew that was the end for me. Now granted, I start back up incorrectly (which I now know) but again, it is what it is. However, now, since I’ve been done for a week… EVERY SINGLE FRIGGEN DAY this week, I am STUPID hungry… I usually 18:6 IF with last meal being able to eat by 730pm so I’m done eating by 8-9pm
I eat Keto foods, always but I am never satisfied. I get a taste in my mouth and I cant stop… or after I eat something, I crave something else… This isn’t a norm for me and it’s driving me absolutely nuts!!
I normally have better control of things… nope… not now…
The 8 days I was fasting, I didn’t do as much strength training as I usually do… I took a break to allow my body to really just heal itself, as I’m usually pushing it to the limits… Since I have been back to eating, I am back to my strength training routine, PLUS my strength/cardio classes plus some treadmill time…
I have put on all the weight lost and a tad more… WTF!!! So upset that I feel like I am starting to derail here… My carb load is still about 20-25g and that’s 98% veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, green salads with green veggies, Brussels sprouts (in bacon of course) ) I’ve been dairy free since I started eating again… but I can eat a LOT… and like I said, I never feel satisfied… never feel content until it’s so far past and I feel sick full… then I wake up with heartburn from over eating good food!!! UGH!! I haven’t had this issue… ever… I’m honestly confused by this.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance 
Satiety
Ok…so, here are a couple of patterns in your post that I detected:
Do you see what I’m seeing? I see a pattern. It’s a pattern on not setting a simple, bite size goal, and sticking to it. This causes anxiety, because your body does not know what is going to happen next.
For example, imagine if you set the goal of fast three days. And you do exactly that.
During your 3-day fast, you plan what food you will eat to break your fast. You go through the motion of shopping for that food, prepping it, putting it in your fridge, etc. your body can rely that it is coming…like “keep calm, and carry on…no worries…in less than 24 hours, you’re eating this…”
If I didn’t psychologically prepare myself with goals that I stick to, my body would freak out and want to gorge next time I put tasty food in my mouth. The commitment to a plan keeps me calm.
Not sure if this helps…we are all different…but, this is my two cents…
I get it… After I broke the fast, I knew and made my meals for the week for lunch… so I do plan everything out, always… and USUALLY Everything right down to dinners I plan out and log it. THEN COMES THE DREADED time to come home from my work day, plus my workout class… I eat what I had logged and planned… And then I am still not satisfied. So my usual is, go grab fried eggs… and sometimes that isn’t enough… then comes some nuts… even then, not totally satisfied… so then might come some bacon, or some nut butter or or or… it just seems to never stop. Then I go to bed and feel like crap the next morning for not being able to stick to my plan PLUS have heartburn… Just so odd that I’ve been so extremely focused for the last 15months and not it’s a mess… and this isn’t my first fast which makes it even more strange… I SWEAR you would think I was pregnant lolol
Yes, I see. However, you just came off of an 8-day fast, when the original plan was 3 days. If it were me (and need to emphasize ME here, because I cannot say this happens with everyone) my brain would be battling itself, trying to outsmart itself, because it cannot “trust” when the next meal is coming. This causes anxiety. And then anxiety screws with my hunger signals.
If I were in your shoes, this is what I would do. I would back track, by going back to 3 meals a day for a week. Keeping to keto macros. This would provide the signal to my body that there is no shortage of food. I would then introduce IF, skipping one meal, and then two, still with keto macros. Then I would try a 3-day fast, but stick to 3 days as promised. The idea is to cancel the anxiety of shortage of food, while driving insulin levels way way down.
I guess I never would’ve thought anxiety because I personally don’t feel anxious…
I’m not hungry in the mornings, but I can do a BPC at least with maybe some hemp seeds or something minimal… then my normal lunch and supper and see how it goes… your idea is doable… and should lead me into the next ZornFast… Was thinking maybe I needed to up my macros or something but what you are saying makes total sense… Thanks for the idea…
It sounds like you upped you amount of exercise. This will of course raise your appetite. Your body wants to be in a homeostatic state. So, more energy out, it will compensate by wanting you to give it more energy in. So, your problems with satiety may be linked, at least somewhat, to your increased output. Just food for thought, pardon the pun.
I was thinking the same… but what I am doing now is nothing new for me outside of that 8 days of not doing much & no eating so I guess I would think my body would just revert back to its normal needs…
Fasting is only half of the equation. Feasting (re-feeding) is the other half. Appetite is your body’s way of saying that you need replenish it with nutrients to rebuild tissues that were autophagized during the fast.