How do you stop obsessive food thoughts during dry fasting? I’m on day one just a few hours and i’m looking at food recipes on you tube.
If the food thoughts are helping don’t worry about it. Sometimes it’s my motivation to keep going.
If the food thoughts aren’t helping, stop looking at them to begin with. Your brain signals your stomach to start producing enzymes and what not to prepare for digesting the food you’re thinking about. It can literally make you feel more hungry. When this is the case it’s best just to completely forbid thoughts of food and eating.
Try light movement, exercise or massage yourself - it can help to produce ketones (food) and help alleviate cramping that can come from toxins being released into your system from detoxing (something that may also be causing you to think you need food, energy to help flush things thru and out of your system). Or so is my understanding :)
Here’s the trick that has worked for me: limit your post fast meal to only raw fruits. If you allow yourself to eat any food after your fast you will have all these cravings and desire the food you want most; but if fruit is your only option, you likely won’t think about foods that give unnatural cravings. Remember, you aren’t hungry, you just have an appetite because your body is used to eating. True hunger is rarely ever experienced.