After I started on my fasting journey I realized something about my mind:

My brain likes to get sad or angry and then I give it food to make it feel better

And that was a big revelation for me. Ever since I started on this fasting journey, for the start just skipping the breakfast, my body would retaliate and it would take immense willpower not to give it the oily easy to get tasty food from market(Oil fried Littis and Sabji in my case).

And after giving it the food the body used to feel good but I used to feel like I failed again unable to go through another day of just skipping the meals just by a little bit.

I tried a lot of things, forcing to think of something else, taking different route and what not but in the end there was just one thing that actually mattered.

Allowing myself to feel sad and angry as much as I wanted BUT you won't get food to feel better.

So I would be sort of laughing and smiling and feeling that I have cracked the case when my brain used to bring something from the past or even the present and just used to get angry and puff up like a 6-year old and be like, "I am sad." And all I used to do was feed it all the time, even with things that I know is bad for me.

Now however, I would be like, "Get all angry and all sad and depressed you want. You are not getting food."

And I kept doing that for as long as I could and once I used to see that I have reached my fasting goal, the feeling I got from accomplishing something that I decided I would do was so so so so so so so much better than any great food could ever bring me.

Also, something else happened. Slowly my brain wouldn't get sad or angry that often that it used to. And even if I did get sad/angry I would try to figure out what's causing this sadness or anger and work on that. Most of the times solutions didn't exist but just doing that little work of trying to figure out what is causing this atleast put things into perspective.

This little exercise helped me distinguish between true hunger and the emotional hunger.