Not been long since my last blog entry, but just wanted to log this hunger spike I am having right now, namely to make a note of the time but also to help take my mind away from it. Hunger spikes typically occur about 4 - 5 hours after eating. Sleep will typically throw this askew, since we would generally sleep for longer; hopefully 7 - 8 hours or more. I have often wondered how long it would be after the first surge in hormones before the next surge of hormones occurs that makes you get that hunger feeling. At this point, I am not starving, so the feelings are completely psychological, developed by hormonal changes occurring in my body. These feelings will gradually subside over the next couple of hours and I will forget I was ever even hungry. I am expecting to get another hunger surge right before I eat, since the psychological act of cooking will no doubt stimulate a hormonal response again. According to research, when I eat, my body will overcompensate with growth hormone production, to maximise on nutritional uptake. This is where some of the benefits to IF are to be made!
Anyway, lets set this as a 14 hour precedent, which means you will experience hunger 14 hours after having eaten your last meal, when fasting through sleep, and 5 hours since awakening. I woke up at 5 am this morning, as I do every morning, and I was at work by 6:30 am. I am planning on going to the gym for some last minute rehab (light cardio, stretching), in preparation for tomorrow's lifting programme.
Summary so far (to be continued...):
Eat -> Stop (8:30pm) -> Hunger (10:30am) -> (...) -> Eat (6:30pm)
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