> starting at ~600 calories per day--all sugar as fat and protein prevent hunger from subsiding. After the hunger subsides it's easier to taper off entirely.
I think that statement was easily misinterpreted.
After not eating you start to feel hungry. After a couple of days, that hunger will fade. Eating fat or protein will satiate that hunger but will sort of reset that timer on the hunger going away entirely.
I think the idea is you do a 7 day fast, eating a small amount of sugar during the first ~3 hungry days.
I think you're talking about two different things.
Fat and protein giving satiation refers to your hunger subsiding because you're full.
Whereas "eating all sugar as fat and protein prevent hunger from subsiding" refers to the phenomenon that when you're starving, you stop feeling hungry despite the fact that you aren't full. Presumably, consuming sugar doesn't interfere with this, while consuming fat or protein does.
I think that statement was easily misinterpreted.
After not eating you start to feel hungry. After a couple of days, that hunger will fade. Eating fat or protein will satiate that hunger but will sort of reset that timer on the hunger going away entirely.
I think the idea is you do a 7 day fast, eating a small amount of sugar during the first ~3 hungry days.