It takes some time to adjust to 16-hour fasting. But once you've trained your body to not expect food constantly, it gets easier and easier to add another hour onto the fasting length until you've slowly upped it to 22 hours of fasting. 22-hours really isn't bad if you take it in slow increments.
14-hours is about when your body runs out of food in digestion mode and switches over to starvation mode. Once in starvation mode, the body recycles itself to keep going (meaning breaking down bad tissues to reuse). The reason they recommend 16-hours is because it gives you 2-hours a day of turbo breaking down of bad tissue. The 14-hour hump is what is hard to overcome, but once you overcome it, it gets easier and easier.
It takes some time to adjust to 16-hour fasting. But once you've trained your body to not expect food constantly, it gets easier and easier to add another hour onto the fasting length until you've slowly upped it to 22 hours of fasting. 22-hours really isn't bad if you take it in slow increments.
Thanks. I may try to increase the fast time once I adjust to my current routine. I still find I'm hungry about 14 hours into the fast.
14-hours is about when your body runs out of food in digestion mode and switches over to starvation mode. Once in starvation mode, the body recycles itself to keep going (meaning breaking down bad tissues to reuse). The reason they recommend 16-hours is because it gives you 2-hours a day of turbo breaking down of bad tissue. The 14-hour hump is what is hard to overcome, but once you overcome it, it gets easier and easier.