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Because you are starving yourself anon
Of course your senses gonna be enthusiastic when they see a single gram of external energy
During the hundreds of thousands of years we were nomadic persistence hunters, do you think we ate daily? Three square meals?
A rough rule of thumb is humans can go 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food and 3 minutes without oxygen.
Humans have literally evolved to fast for long periods and then have a huge feast once the prey is caught.
So no, he's not "starving" himself by avoiding stuffing his face for a few days.
starving
Calorie deficit that causes weight loss is starving. It's the definition of the word.
It isn't though. Why didn't you even check, when leaving a comment like that?
starvation
noun
*suffering or death caused by lack of food.
"thousands died of starvation"
Op didn't suffer. In fact, quite the opposite, wouldn't you say?
The not eating part was the suffering. Food later was the pleasure.
There's an initial period where there's a bit of hunger pangs, sometimes, but I wouldn't say there's suffering.
Then you get an incredible high and the hunger subsides. Feels amazing, honestly.
And I'm no stranger to recreational drugs.
but I wouldn’t say there’s suffering.
I've done intermittent fasting and it doesn't feel amazing.
With IM I don't really get to that energetic sweet spot.
It's more like 24h+ into the fast than in the 16-20 range.
That's when you're still somewhat hungry.
Cooking after some 30 hours of fasting is amazing. Everything smells fucking amazing and makes you salivate. People go in for healthy diets usually I think but I just feast.
One time made this amazing deer bolognese sauce, simmered it for ages. Spaghetti, fresh parmeesian (hehe) and a salad of nice fresh tomatoes and some other goodies. A nice beer on top of that.
Mmmm-mmmm-mmm.
Got to do that at home though, since usually that slaps the digestive tract awake and I have to run to the bathroom.
Or when you're finally getting hydrated.
Water fasting means you only intake water.
3 days with only water can still "dehydrate" you but in the sense of electrolyte imbalance, which often feels similar to dehydration.
Hyponatremia ends up killing marathon runners pretty commonly, more often than heart attacks but to be fair I wouldn't expect marathon runners to have a lot of the associated risk factors.
This is an important thing to note.
It's easy to avoid though. Simply put a few grains of salt into your water.
In the army, as a supply-core nco, that was a must, especially in the summer. A spoon of salt for every jug. I'm gonna refrain from putting the ratios here, because I don't want anyone to go necking salt because of me. Normally we get enough salt from food, so I'm afraid of some trendy would-be healthy kids starting to add a bunch of salt into their water bottles even when they don't do any sweating, thinking it's healthy for them.