I would just like to say that I am really f#@%ing hungry today! I have been 100% cohens for 5 days now (except for the accidental extra piece of fruit the other day) and have resisted even saurkraut (my favourite thing in the world) at the family dinner and this morning my housemate is eating french toast- I'm still super motivated but this is the first time I have felt physically ill from hunger- I don't know what to do! lunch is an hour away... I hope the results are worth it! (sorry to whinge but I can't really whinge anywhere else!) did anyone else feel really hungry still after the first five days? I wish my body would just start eating its own fat already!
I must admit in comparison to others I do feel hungry most days, however rarely it it at the level of starving hungry (well except for a hour before some evening meals).
My question do you feel like your stomach is empty with "satiety" (the feeling of full, enough to eat) at zero even 30~40 minutes after meals? or do you feel all-over-body hungry and weakness (eg. not enough metabolism of blood sugars and ketones)? (or both
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For any diet to work in the long run we cannot feel starving hungry all day every day for very long. Starving will resulting in breaking until our commitment to any diet, no matter how motivated and commited we are at the start. It one thing that you feel temptation to eat a yummy pizza, but since you are not feeling that hungry you say no. It is another level to starving hungry for days/weeks and then have someone eat a pizza in front of you and then offer you the leftovers !!!! Its like those TV crews cooking bacon and eggs breakfast just outside the gates of the starving refuge camp in Africa.
The meals I feal most full after are:
a) Yogurt mixed with 1 apple topped with crackers
b) Grilled steak (rare) with a salad of green baby spinach leaves with a few other green vegetables, with crackers and a small mango.
The diet plan I was given say that some feel hungry with apples and too much B6 vitamin in the multivitamins also may stimulate hunger. As a last resort try a small deviaiton and have around 20~30% more of the protein (meat) food of a meal and see if that helps just once (not a good thing, but better than falling of the wagon and eating a packet of tim tams or a long visit to pizza hut). However I honestly think just stick with it for the full week, do you have a visit to the clinic/consultant planed at the end of the week?
