True, but that's a psychological issue, I find. A question of eating for other reasons than being hungry.What I have often found is that if I am busy then I am less inclined to eat as much.
You also?
Not if the signals say "full", but certainly if they keep going 'hungry'. That's the tricky bit. I've tried drinking more water and tea because I know that hunger and thirst signals can be confused, but I'm just wondering what the biological, perhaps sans the logical, explanation is.Learning to follow the signals is the difficult bit.
Hunger, that bad old hollow even slightly painful sensation in my tummy. The funny thing is that even if I've had the same breakfast some days I'll feel hunger, but other days not.Can you describe how hunger feels for you, @briped?
I don’t feel it, or indeed that I have eaten enough as a full tum. More by how my head feels. If I need to eat I get a headache on left side. If I have eaten more than I need to I get a different headache, across forehead.
Weird, I know.
I vaguely remember feeling a bit of emptiness in my tum as a child. That was in the good old days when food was put in front of you and if you didn’t like it there wasn’t an alternative, and so you waited until next meal. Nothing in cupboards to snack on. I do have some damage from multiple abdominal surgeries, so perhaps that is why I don’t get that empty tum feeling. As long as I can remember I always had ‘head hunger’ just wondered if it affects anyone else.Hunger, that bad old hollow even slightly painful sensation in my tummy. The funny thing is that even if I've had the same breakfast some days I'll feel hunger, but other days not.
What you're saying about how you feel it in your head must be very unusual ...? Have you always felt hunger that way?
Not so in my home. If we didn't like it we'd have to eat it anyway. Hmm, interesting. Could that be part of the reason why my relationship with food is a bit less than relaxed ...? We didn't get many sweets back in the 60es, and I do remember thinking that when I grow up I'll live on custard! Obviously I didn't learn much about nutrition eitherI vaguely remember feeling a bit of emptiness in my tum as a child. That was in the good old days when food was put in front of you and if you didn’t like it there wasn’t an alternative, and so you waited until next meal.
You're the first I've heard it from. I understand the headache from hunger thing, sort of, but it's more of a general dull headache, and could have more to do with dehydration.As long as I can remember I always had ‘head hunger’ just wondered if it affects anyone else.
Interesting. If I could only find the pattern I'd make sure that I felt full all the time. So cheap as wellI wonder if the hungry feeling is a construct of the mind.
That's the very one, and I love it. I had it again today, and yesterday this time of the day I felt full. Today I'm beginning to feel ready for the 3 drumsticks defrosting on my work top. Funny, isn't it?was it the Diet Doctor coconut porridge recipe because when I tried it it felt like a big heavy stone in my stomach for some hours after eating it. No idea why. I won't be having it again though because I didn't like that 'weighed down' feeling.
It sounds as if you're coping with a non-low carbing OH in much the same way as we do it. My husband hasn't got a clue what it's like to not be normal weight, and what it's like not to be able to eat anything he fancies. So I'll eat my LCHF diet, and he'll have the same as me, but with carbs, much like your Mr. C. My husband hasn't lost weight, and has much the same appetite as he's always had. Well, not two bodies are alike, I suppose.Mr C says he seems to have lost any hunger signals since I started low carb even though he still has carbs with most meals. He tells me he sometimes feels he has to force himself to eat because he doesn't want to lose any more weight.
in the year since i signed up for this thing and mainly eat lo carb .. i eat a breakfast at about 6 am...coconut porridge just now..generaly some almonds or pecans about oneish then evening meal.. never hungry during the day... myprevious workday diet was the traditional packed lunch ofwhite bread sandwiches few biscuits some fruit etc. and always starving at end of workday ( cue raid cake tin before evening meal ) .......It is fascinating but I wouldn’t overthink it. Learn to trust your appetite. As I like to keep saying - eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re not. If you’re eating the right foods then your appetite is no longer hijacked by carbohydrate dependence, and it will tell you when it needs food, or won’t when it doesn’t. No effort required.
I tend to experience this, also. I am fat adapated but my BMI is a rather lean 18.6 which means my body tends to want to hold onto the fat that it does have. The upshot is that it is not shy in telling me when I need to add fuel. Some days I will barely think about food, but others I will have a very hearty appetite. For me, weight training seems to be the hinge point. If I’m lifting weights then I will get the hunger signals sometimes almost the moment that I put them down. Biochemistry rocks
And there I was saying don’t overthink it
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