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I'm hungry all the time too... and I trained myself to enjoy that feeling, since it means losing weight, and nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. I go brows

I'm hungry all the time too... and I trained myself to enjoy that feeling, since it means losing weight, and nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. I go browse the fridge every hour or two as well... and what works is to keep absolutely no junk food in the house or fridge. What's in the fridge is carrots and celery. If I'm not hungry enough to eat that, I'm not hungry enough to eat. Tea also helps; I make three or four cups a day of various (mostly low/non caffeine) teas, and it works well to give some flavor that's a distraction from food. What works for me is large volumes of calorie-not-dense food. My salads are a whole romaine of lettuce, half a bag of spinach, half a pound of baby carrots, half a cucumber, some sliced onion and pepper for flavor. It fills up a huge bowl and comes to like 300 calories (to which I do add a reasonable amount of light dressing.) The bulk and fiber results in a feeling that I could eat a couple hours later but I don't have to, and I've trained myself to realize that. I don't find that big hunks of protein help. It's too calorie dense. A 20 ounce ribeye will get to satiation... but it's going to be around a thousand calories, which would need to account for like 12 hours of satiation, but nothing does that. I get protein from one protein bar per day (mostly soy protein), plus some from vegetables like chickpeas and black beans.

Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
> and I trained myself to enjoy that feeling I have a very hard time getting work done when I'm hungry. > and nothing tastes as good as skinny feels Have you ever had a Cheesecake Factory Cinnabon Cheesecake? You might change your tune. > and what works is to keep absolutely no junk food in the house or fridge I don't eat junk food. It's been years since I bought a package of cookies or chips outside of hosting a party, which only happens twice a year. The cheesecake mentioned above is only on the anniversary of my wife and I's first date. > Tea also helps; I drink Coke Zero, but keep it to two cans per day, max. The rest is water. > My salads are a whole romaine of lettuce, half a bag of spinach... O_o I don't think I could eat that much greens in a single sitting. I did do a week where 4 lunches were salad. I split a bag of spinach into 4, added carrots, mushrooms, cucumber, grape tomatoes, ~6 oz of chicken each, and of course just a little dressing to give some extra moisture to the spinach. Felt good to be eating something healthy, but was still hungry. I just think...there are people who seem to have a perfectly calibrated sense of hunger. If they eat a large breakfast, they won't even get hungry for lunch, and will probably have a light dinner. If they eat something really shitty like a Cinnabon Cheesecake, they eat two bites and then acknowledge that's enough, while I could probably pound two entire slices at 1370 calories and 120g of sugar EACH. Am I defective?

Sohcahtoa82 5y ago

> and I trained myself to enjoy that feeling I have a very hard time getting work done when I'm hungry. > and nothing tastes as good as skinny feels Have you ever had a Cheesecake Factory Cinnabon Cheesecake? You might change your tune. > and what works is to keep absolutely no junk food in the house or fridge I don't eat junk food. It's been years since I bought a package of cookies or chips outside of hosting a party, which only happens twice a year. The cheesecake mentioned above is only on the anniversary of my wife and I's first date. > Tea also helps; I drink Coke Zero, but keep it to two cans per day, max. The rest is water. > My salads are a whole romaine of lettuce, half a bag of spinach... O_o I don't think I could eat that much greens in a single sitting. I did do a week where 4 lunches were salad. I split a bag of spinach into 4, added carrots, mushrooms, cucumber, grape tomatoes, ~6 oz of chicken each, and of course just a little dressing to give some extra moisture to the spinach. Felt good to be eating something healthy, but was still hungry. I just think...there are people who seem to have a perfectly calibrated sense of hunger. If they eat a large breakfast, they won't even get hungry for lunch, and will probably have a light dinner. If they eat something really shitty like a Cinnabon Cheesecake, they eat two bites and then acknowledge that's enough, while I could probably pound two entire slices at 1370 calories and 120g of sugar EACH. Am I defective?