Re:Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way
by gilded-lilly on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:38PM
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Interesting. You may be right - in fact, I’d never considered filling up on broccoli or other calorically thin ingredients to suppress hunger. I was just working on the assumption that hunger is the body’s response to caloric deficit (in the absence of drugs).
Re:Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way
by otabdeveloper4 on Friday September 23, 2022 @01:29AM
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True hunger is a feeling of deep fatigue, not a craving to eat something.
What we call "hunger" is just habit of eating food regularly. You can untrain yourself, just like with any other habit.
But you didn't need to go hungry. Folks lose weight by caloric restriction and fill up on a lot of fruits and (non-starchy) vegetables. Some folks have luck with legumes and beans and filling foods. Some folks snack and don't have meals.
And the experience of hunger changes, too! Sometimes, in the same person and definitely between folks.
Examples: I used to smoke. Nicotine is an excellent appetite suppressant, and honestly made it easier to lose weight.
High stress can make me lose most of my appetite or do the opposite.
I menstruate. A few days each month, I have indescribable hunger. It is hormone driven, and unlike other hungers I've experienced. Suddenly, I feel like I've skipped meals. It consumes me. I can't do anything about it, but if I eat a little, I can go back to paying attention to other things.
Not me personally, but there are a number of drugs that increase your appetite, too.
Again, the point really is that hunger isn't as simple as "you'll be slightly hungry most of the time".