I can relate. I am really hungry only after a meal
Well, life is like that sometimes. It will pass.
But I know some reasons that makes this experience too frequent:
- Not eating enough. If I need at least as much food than my daily energy need, so be it. I had that in my first keto months and I very often had it after fat adaptation too.
- Not the right food choices… Ketosis itself isn’t enough for some of us. Maybe the carbs are still too high - low enough for ketosis but not low enough to getting satiated with a modest amount of food. Maybe there is some problematic items. I do my best to minimize added fat and cream as it just piles up without satiating me. I can afford more of them only if I use my top satiating items and avoid carbs as much as I can.
- Timing. If I start to eat tiny meals, I get hungry myself… If I want to restrict my calories, I better have a decent meal at least… (A big one just doesn’t fit into my day.) But using my best food items, I don’t need to do OMAD, thankfully. As I add carbs and other not satiating items (for me, it’s very individual and subject to change too), the size of my eating window becomes more important. For maintenance on a carby diet, I would need OMAD (and it still wouldn’t work, I never could go back again but that’s not the point here). Using my most satiating food only, I don’t need other rules, it automatically will be fine.
You probably need other things than me but it’s quite possible that multiple factors have an important role in your satiation.
I don’t know why you suddenly changed but maybe your body wants more food now for some reason. Maybe you ate too little this far. According to your body, at least, mine hates every tiny deficit on almost every woe since I became less fat… Maybe yours was okay with it this far but not anymore? Maybe you lost enough fat for your energy intake to be insufficient? I don’t know how much you lost, what are your stats and how much do you eat…
Our body has its quirks too. Once I had a month when I suddenly wanted 1000 kcal more every day. My lifestyle changed nothing, no idea what it was…
In short: if you are hungry, eat, I guess. Unless if you are very sure you shouldn’t. I have times when I accept 2 hungry hours in the beginning of my fast (after eating very much). My hunger/satiation signals are sometimes off but I know what my body needs. Being flexible is important but sometimes I know more eating wouldn’t help and sometimes I CAN’T eat, I am simply hungry. it’s not frequent. Frequent hunger means bad lifestyle or too little food to me.
If you want to continue eating, you probably should continue eating. If it’s too much eating, change something. Peanuts definitely would be a problem for me especially alone. Eat proper, satiating meals if you need those. Maybe you are like me and a big meal satiates you for way longer than 2 smaller using the same amount of food…