Thank you for this very informative post. It’s interesting to hear you can learn through nutrition the difference between true hunger in the throat and mouth and cravings in the stomach which we have mistakenly attributed to hunger. I’m glad this forum is discussing this aspect of eating healthy, a fast will do no good if we go back to our former way of eating the SAD.
Here is the problem for me, I don’t like the way healthy foods taste so my thinking is if I fast I will reset my tastes to crave real food. From everything I’ve read that is one of the benefits of fasting and that is the most important for me. It won’t do me any good to fast and lose all the weight if I don’t like the healthy foods that will enable me to maintain the weight loss. So the question is how long does a person have to fast in order to gain this benefit? Does anyone know the answer? Can it be achieved through short fasts with proper re-feeding in between or can it only be achieved through one long fast?
I completely agree with Dr. Fuhrman, I firmly believe in order to be successful you must be committed to whatever plan you choose. Before I can choose a plan I have to reset my tastes to crave good food, I can’t stand the thought of forcing myself to eat things I don’t like, in fact there is no way I could stick to it, I would be doomed to fail. I am very thankful to this forum because I have never before thought about a healthy plan for the rest of my life and thank God it’s not too late to start. To me it would be much easier to fast to reset tastes than to retrain myself to like healthy food.
I can’t tell you how many times in my life I’ve lost the weight and gained it right back, I’m through doing that. I hate that it took me so long to realize I’ve been going in circles with the weight issue. I guess to tell the truth, I did realize that I was gaining, losing all the time it’s that I never once even thought about changing my lifestyle in regards to food until a couple of months ago. I’m just happy I’m ready to finally change that aspect of my life. I can’t imagine how awful it would be to spend the rest of my life forcing myself to eat healthy foods that I don’t enjoy, there has to be a middle line somewhere. That’s what I’m searching for now.
So there you have it, any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.