12 hours Into the Fast

Here I am, safe and sane, 12 hours into the fast. I started at 6pm yesterday. There's hunger, of course, which I expect to be more and more intense as time goes by. Fast for 12 hours and fast for 42 hours are completely different stories, but I am glad I made it through 25% without throwing the whole plan out of the window.

The real purpose of writing this blog is to encourage myself and to attach a short note on this fasting experiment before I forget it. I just realize that I haven't experienced real hunger for a week or two now. I eat because of craving from blood sugar roller coaster. Now that I start fasting since I went to bed yesterday evening and try not to eat anything but water when I wake up to study at night, I experience real hunger again! Real hunger is very easy to tolerate, seriously. Unlike fake hunger because of blood sugar fluctuation, real hunger gives me calmness. My head does not run around thinking about high-carb food all the time. I think that if I can maintain this state forever, I will have no issue with food again. I can be like everybody else who forgets about food after finishing a meal and start thinking about food again when the stomach is moaning. That's a fresh idea of the day! I have to note it down here.