When fasting, how do you keep your mind off food?

[Lamb]

When fasting, how do you keep your mind off food? I find that if I'm not eating, that's all I can think about is food, not anything else.

 

[Frankj]

If you're a sugar user you may be craving your daily fix of sugar more than just food.

First step I would recommend you try is getting all sugar other than naturally occurring sugars such as milk sugars in dairy products. If you must use sugar avoid refined white sugar and HFCS like the plague, they're not natural sugars and your metabolism wasn't designed to handle them in large quantities on a regular basis.

If you just need to make something sweet try stevia, very sweet and no sugar or calories.

Other than that have you just engaged yourself in other thinking activities to dominate your thinking, I frequently get involved in some intellectual activity to the extent I completely forget to eat at all. Basically just think about thinking intensely about some project or something you are interested to push thinking about food to the back of your mind instead of letting it be in the forefront.

Run this stuff by your AI and examine it to see if it suits your lifestyle and also get other suggestions to approach the problem.

 

[tango]

I guess it's easy for me because there are times I get so focused on something I forget to eat. If my wife goes out for the day without me she always tells me to remember to eat. Sometimes I actually do remember, other times I get late into the afternoon before I noticed I'm hungry.

If you can be doing something or thinking about something else that should help. If you're fasting presumably the intention is to spend the time in prayer rather than simply going without food for the sake of being hungry?

 

[Lamb]

If you're a sugar user you may be craving your daily fix of sugar more than just food.

First step I would recommend you try is getting all sugar other than naturally occurring sugars such as milk sugars in dairy products. If you must use sugar avoid refined white sugar and HFCS like the plague, they're not natural sugars and your metabolism wasn't designed to handle them in large quantities on a regular basis.

If you just need to make something sweet try stevia, very sweet and no sugar or calories.

Other than that have you just engaged yourself in other thinking activities to dominate your thinking, I frequently get involved in some intellectual activity to the extent I completely forget to eat at all. Basically just think about thinking intensely about some project or something you are interested to push thinking about food to the back of your mind instead of letting it be in the forefront.

Run this stuff by your AI and examine it to see if it suits your lifestyle and also get other suggestions to approach the problem.

Stevia causes my body to break out in sores.

 

[Lamb]

I guess it's easy for me because there are times I get so focused on something I forget to eat. If my wife goes out for the day without me she always tells me to remember to eat. Sometimes I actually do remember, other times I get late into the afternoon before I noticed I'm hungry.

If you can be doing something or thinking about something else that should help. If you're fasting presumably the intention is to spend the time in prayer rather than simply going without food for the sake of being hungry?

My prayers end up being, sorry I'm thinking about food, God, but I'm so hungry.

 

[Frankj]

Stevia causes my body to break out in sores.

Never heard about something like that before from stevia, are you using a pure high stevioside stevia extract. which should be a fine white powder, or one of those sweeteners that contain stevia along with other products and fillers meant to make them look and act like granulated sugar?

 

[tango]

If going without food entirely causes you problems, why not try a "lesser" form of fasting, where you go without one part of a regular meal rather than skipping the meal entirely?

When you refer to fasting are you talking about skipping a single meal or going without food for an extended period? My wife and I went several days without eating lunch because we had a specific prayer concern, but it's been a hugely long time since I went even an entire day without eating anything at all.

 

[jswauto]

Drink water when hunger hits along with your prayers of spiritual burden..

 

[Lamb]

Drink water when hunger hits along with your prayers of spiritual burden..

Oh trust me, I drink plenty of water and pray. But I'm praying for food.