Here is a great post from the TTmembers.com forums about the benefits of fasting at how it teaches you to recognize when you are truly hungry…
“But, to throw another curve at my doubts, yesterday during my fast, when I really wanted to say to hell with it and make myself a gorgeous pizza with olive oil and fresh basil (conveniently ignoring that I would have to let the dough rest for twelve hours), I opened my pdf of Eat Stop Eat, looking for some sort of loophole. What I found instead was John Barban on page 62 saying, “I think if people’s lives were a little more exciting they wouldn’t need to eat so much to get some joy out of their day.” Ouch. That one hurt. It also kept me from breaking my fast.”
The truth is, for all the reasons we eat, hunger is very, very far down the list.
we eat because we are bored, or out of habit, or because we are with friends, or because we were invited out for dinner, or because it’s ‘time’ to eat, and then occasionally we eat because we are really, truly hungry.
Something to consider the next you hear someone say “I’m starving, let’s go get something to eat”.
BP
