After doing intermittant fasting for half a year I think you shouldn't generalize too much from your own experience. Yes, it gets easier but it stays painful and requires a lot of willpower ime.
Fasting increases vasointestinal peptide VIP which boost growth hormone.
At this point, most days it’s not even hard. When I’m hungry I just realize that the hunger is temporary, and it’s honestly unrelated to the degree to which I need food. And tbh nowadays I can tell when my body actually feels weak and needs food, and when it’s just whining.
I think of it like getting sleepy. Just because I feel sleepy doesn’t mean I should just take a nap right there and then.
You call that a fast? As someone who's lost and kept off about half their body weight, I feel qualified to tell you that skipping a meal here and there is not fasting. In fact, if you're eating every day you're not fasting. Fuck, I mean, I only eat about 1.5 meals a day as a requirement of merely maintaining my current weight (and even that doesn't always work).
"Intermittent fasting means different things to different people, even among the research community. This lack of specificity has been a source of consternation for experts in the field of fasting, with some advocating that the phrase be retired. Often, when someone uses this phrase they may actually mean one of the following:
Time-restricted eating Alternate-day fasting Periodic or prolonged fasting (multi-day) - less frequently referred to as intermittent"
I guess since I never let myself go as much as you did, I'm not allowed to share my experiences?