Anecdata point: I've found that I had to train my brain/body in this again. It's so easy nowadays to just eat whatever you want, whenever you want. Have a swee

Anecdata point: I've found that I had to train my brain/body in this again. It's so easy nowadays to just eat whatever you want, whenever you want. Have a sweet craving? Choose from a wide variety of snacks you have in the house and more are just around the corner in the store (but at least that would require leaving the house, so it's a bit of a barrier). I usually don't eat breakfast. But some days I do (sometimes on weekends). Especially when breakfast was or included carbs, I'll be hungry again for lunch. If I don't eat breakfast, then most days I don't really feel hungry for lunch. I have days where there's so much going on at work that I get to 5p.m. and suddenly notice that all I've had all day was coffee and water. When I've been eating no carbs or not many carbs for a while again, then it's easier to get over a carb craving. The body has learned that if it doesn't get carbs after a short while of signaling hunger, it will just stop and use the stores. It basically becomes easy enough to ignore and just being busy e.g. with work makes the hunger feeling not even appear at all in most cases. Totally non scientific guess: Our bodies have evolved to live on both a carb and a fat metabolism that was driven by the availability of food sources. It's perfectly happy to use either of these. Long winters with a limited amount of preserved carbs but lots of protein and fat available (partially from your own body or from hunting/preserved meats) use the fat metabolism. Summer and fall with lots fresh fruits and such the body is happy to use the carb metabolism and make you eat everything you can and fill up the fat stores. Unfortunately today we are able to feed that carb machine indefinitely, even in long winters.