I lost weight during the pandemic by just trying to make sure I was hungry by the next meal time. By that I mean, I would eat breakfast and then see how hungry

I lost weight during the pandemic by just trying to make sure I was hungry by the next meal time. By that I mean, I would eat breakfast and then see how hungry I was at lunchtime. If I wasn’t very hungry for lunch, then I would still eat lunch, but I tried eating less at breakfast the next day. Same with lunch-to-dinner. Over time my meal portion sizes came down, but I was not looking directly at that, I was just paying attention to the feeling of hunger. What I realized was that I would eat a big breakfast and then a big lunch just because it was lunchtime. So I was overeating; basically taking in more calories than my body needed. It was a combination of habit and not thinking about what I was feeling. I realized that I should feel pretty hungry before a meal, but I wasn’t letting that happen. I totally agree with you that hunger is subjective and hard to measure outside of our own perception. I’m not sure I could have or would have done this based on someone else’s coaching. It’s hard to calibrate my personal feeling of “hungry enough” based on what another person says. And it takes motivation, which has to come from within.