Wendie Trubow explains why your stomach gets hungry on schedule. If you can't fast past eight hours, start there and add one hour at a time. Your body's learned when to expect food, and gradual increases reset that hunger memory.
Some of our listeners, they've been fasting for years. Some of our listeners say, I really can't go more than three hours or I get hypoglycemic. What's the message that you give for people who have a hard time going more than eight hours overnight between fasts? What do you, what do you recommend they do?
Yeah, that's. That's a great question. I would say if you can't go more than, you know, eight hours, an overnight fast is what you would typically call that. You just gotta like, start where you can. If you really want to get into the lifestyle, you gotta kind of be like, okay, cool, I can go eight hours. Well, tomorrow I'm going to go nine hours and just kind of build up to that. Then 10 hours, then 11, then 12. Just keep going as much as you can because that will help to actually reset your circadian rhythm. So our circadian rhythms are very tied to our hunger responses. So just like your body knows, oh, it's X o' clock at night, I'm supposed to be winding down, getting ready for bed, starting to start my sleep responses. It does the same thing with your hunger cues and your hunger responses. So if you're constantly eating at a certain time every day, your body starts to then anticipate that food coming in at that time, and it'll make you hungry.
So muscle memory, Your stomach has a muscle memory, basically, is what you're saying?
Yeah.
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