If someone goes to bed hungry, what happens in the body overnight that causes them to wake up not hungry?
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Here’s something related that I don’t think most people realize: if you’re hungry and you don’t eat, you don’t just keep getting hungrier and hungrier. You don’t even stay hungry. The hunger actually fades away all by itself.
I fasted for a week, once, and the hunger came and went in a multi hour cycle. Most of the time I did not feel particularly hungry. And at no point was the hunger worse than the hunger you feel if you skip a meal. That’s as bad as it gets. And if you can just wait that’s out, the hunger will subside for a few hours.
That said, there does seem to be a psychological component where despite not feeling all that physically hungry, you feel like something is wrong and that you should eat. Over time that’s the harder feeling to resist than the physical feeling of hunger.
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