During an online discussion of fasting in a forum I frequent,
one of the participants wrote:

"I don't think fasting works for everyone. ..
some people find that they are so hungry the day afterwards
that they eat more that day to compensate for the fast.
I suspect that, for people like this, fasting is simply not a helpful tool.

I've talked to lots of people about fasting
...which is a common practice here in India...
and I've never run across someone who found it difficult
and was hungrier the day after who ever really got used to it."

Based on my own intermittent fasting experience..which is extensive...
and my observations of others,
I tend to agree.

Although intermittent fasting has sometimes been useful to me as a maintenance tool,
my body has never become accustomed to it,

I have to be EVEN MORE CAREFUL to consciously moniter my food intake while doing this,
because I am always more hungry during for a day or two following a fast,
no matter whether the fast is 19 hrs, 24 hrs, or 36 hrs,
and if I left it up to the desires of my body, I would always overeat after a fast.

Of course, if I overeat the day BEFORE a fast,
I'm not as hungry as usual at the very beginning of a fast,
because my body is still digesting the food from the day before.
However, this does NOT mean that fasting is beginning to reduce my desire for food,
and I am always more hungry during the following day or two.

It isn't how hungry I am at the beginning of a fast that is predictive of overall success.
It is how hungry I am during the day or two AFTER a fast, when I return to eating.

Anyone with a tendency to have binges..
...by which I mean short unrestricted, uncontrolled high calorie eating episodes...
must watch and moniter their subsequent food carefully,
or intermittent fasting will simply become a "binge-fast" cycle...

In time, when it becomes extremely difficult (almost impossible) to fast,
this pattern can easily transform itself into a cycle of "normal eating & bingeing".
This "normal eating-binge" pattern is also a major difficulty
many very obese people have when following a "vanilla" No S Diet plan
and...in my own experience, and my observation of others...
this is NOT ALWAYS self-correcting...even after a lengthy trial period.

                
Today I choose to be Hopeful
about the difficulties in my life.
You can choose to join me in doing this.

  Wisdom from a member of a forum I frequent:

“Situations don't MAKE us eat,
stress doesn't make us eat,
being exposed to certain foods doesn't make us eat, etc.

They all increase the DESIRE to eat even when there is no true hunger.
It would be nice to be able to avoid situations that make us desire food,
but good luck.

Just having the desire doesn't make us eat, either,
anymore than feeling the urge to urinate makes us relieve ourselves
as soon as we feel it. And just because relieving themselves
(after waiting until an appropriate time and place) feels good,
most people don't purposely drink more and more
just so that they can feel that good feeling again. “ 

I treat Dieting as an enjoyable Hobby.

The definition of the word “Dieting”
is to eat sparingly or according to prescribed rules.
The word “sparing” means marked by or practicing
careful restraint, therefore Dieting simply means
restrained and purposeful eating.

The only way for an obese person to become,
and to stay, a normal size…
which is commonly referred to as “thin”
is by Dieting forever.

There are many ways of eating,
many different Diets, and..if followed..most of them
will bring one to normal weight and allow one to stay there.
 Just pick one…any one…and begin following it.
If that Diet isn’t working for you, pick another,
…but carefully avoid the tendency to engage in
unrestrained eating episodes between diets or food-plans.
Changing Diets isn’t a “free space”
where the Laws of Nature are suspended.

Dieting, like life, is a process not an event.
One day stacks upon another.
It is the simple matter of changing one’s eating habits,
from unrestrained eating to purposely restrained eating.
by using one method or another.

Simple, but not easy.