I am finding the next step of this to be a mental challenge. Years ago, when I started Atkins, I was trying to eat meals plus 3 snacks and quickly found out that I could not do that. So, I eliminated the snacks and have kept to 3 meals per day. Now, I noticed that I am frequently not hungry at meal time, but I have not been able to bring myself to skip the meal. So, that is my next goal - to really only eat when I am hungry. I just have to figure out how to get psychologically ready for that. It is not like I don’t have food available at any time if I get hungry, so I think it is the ingrained mindset of eating at certain times.
Natural appetite regulation
Shortstuff
(Allie)
#42
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#43
Not sure why you feel this implies your signaling is inaccurate. Surely it just means that your calorie requirement is changing from day to day, no?
To my mind, that’s the whole point of eating to satiety instead of to some pre-calculated number. The body is highly mutable.
Alex99
#45
I wasn’t thinking about variations day to day. I’m talking about variations at any given moment.
I was expecting a pretty sharp feeling of “hey this is the exact amount you should eat” give or take a bit. But maybe both answered are correct? And your body compensates? I could eat 1000 Calories or 2000 and my weight will simply stablize around some equilibrium it things I should have?
I just didn’t want it stuff myself for a month only to realise I had been overeating. Or I don’t want to be eating the bare minimum and depriving myself of some treats (berries or whatever) only to find I could have eaten them.
Sorry I don’t know if I’m even making sense …