Not eating makes me feel good.

[kiny]

I wonder if I'm the only one where this happens.

When in remission and not eating much for like 12 hours, I feel good, really good, like .. an euphoric moment where my body has much more energy and I can think much much more clearly, I'm more alert and happier. I do not feel slow anymore like on the days I eat.

I looked up how this could happen and it has to do with the body going into preservation mode, the body thinks you are in danger and lots of genes come into play that were dorment before, they are only there for that moment.

Does not eating or eating very little for like a day make you feel good?

 

[kiny]

It's explained here:

Department of Zoophysiology, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

The ability of animals to survive food deprivation is clearly of considerable survival value. Unsurprisingly, therefore, all animals exhibit adaptive biochemical and physiological responses to the lack of food. Many animals inhabit environments in which food availability fluctuates or encounters with appropriate food items are rare and unpredictable; these species offer interesting opportunities to study physiological adaptations to fasting and starvation. When deprived of food, animals employ various behavioral, physiological, and structural responses to reduce metabolism, which prolongs the period in which energy reserves can cover metabolism. Such behavioral responses can include a reduction in spontaneous activity and a lowering in body temperature, although in later stages of food deprivation in which starvation commences, activity may increase as food-searching is activated. In most animals, the gastrointestinal tract undergoes marked atrophy when digestive processes are curtailed; this structural response and others seem particularly pronounced in species that normally feed at intermittent intervals. Such animals, however, must be able to restore digestive functions soon after feeding, and these transitions appear to occur at low metabolic costs.

 

[Ozboz]

yeah I have experienced similar yesterday didn't eat much and feel better today

 

[hannah-rose]

Yes it was in the papers recently about how fasting can be good for the brain, in that say, a 12 hour fast will increase your brain capacity because you're sort've 'hyped up' preparing for what the body thinks will be a famine.

Probably not a good idea to do it all the time though!

 

[Rebecca85]

I feel awful when I don't eat. My stomach just gurgles more and more and I get crampy. It's as if I just carry on trying to digest thin air or something. The fasting before my colonoscopy was almost as bad as drinking the prep!

 

[Grumbletum]

Yes, I feel much better on little or no food. Pretty alert in the morning, but get kind of groggy as the day goes on an my food intake increases.