Did a 5 day gap early on and the food noise came back softer than i expected, mostly just boredom eating in the evening. I kept cut veg in the fridge and reached for that first
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Refill gap starting today, how do you bridge it?
Days 3 and 4 were the only ones that felt off for me, and it was more head hunger than real hunger. I kept a big water bottle within reach and stayed out of the kitchen after dinner.
My last gap was only three days but the evenings were the rough part, so I moved dinner earlier and kept the kitchen closed after. Curious whether your hunger showed up at a certain time of day or just all day.
The evening cravings were the only thing that really came back for me, and a ten minute delay before I decided anything usually killed most of them. Curious whether your gap lands on a weekend, that was always the harder stretch for me.
What surprised me was the cravings hitting at night, not during the day. My fix was eating dinner later than usual during the gap.
the first two days were the worst for me too, then it settled. What surprised me was the food noise coming back before the physical hunger did, so I started eating my lunch slower just to stretch it out.
Days two and three were the loudest for me too, but it was more head hunger than actual stomach growling. I front-loaded protein at breakfast so I wasn't white-knuckling it by 4pm.
My last gap was five days and the first two were the only rough ones, then my appetite settled back into something I could actually work with. What helped was not treating the gap as a free-for-all, I just kept my portions where they were.
Did the gap hit your appetite on day one or did it take a couple days to build? Mine stayed quiet the first day and then evenings got loud, so I front-loaded a big protein dinner those nights.
How many days is the gap exactly? My last one ran five and the first two felt normal, then the evenings got noisy around day three.
Did a 6 day gap a couple months back and the return of the food noise was milder than I expected, mostly just louder after dinner. Curious whether yours hits at a specific time of day or just kind of drifts in
how did your appetite compare by day three or four? Mine came back in a weird way around then, not full-on hunger but this nagging background noise that made me want to pick at stuff.
I'm only a few pounds in so I haven't hit a gap yet, but all this talk about evenings has me wondering if that's the part I should brace for first.
Evenings were the rough patch in my gap too. I started drinking a big glass of water before I let myself go hunting in the kitchen and that cut the wandering down a lot
Did the couch hours hit you harder than the daytime? That was the stretch that got weird for me, evenings felt way longer without it
Only 6 lbs in for me so a gap scared me more than it probably should have, and the thing that actually helped was eating my bigger meal at midday instead of saving it for dinner. Evenings were where the cravings hit and I had nothing left to look forward to
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