Thank you. I do have thyroid imbalance, but my doc keeps telling me that my levels are normal with the meds I’m on and it shouldn’t be causing the hunger. |
Sure which means those different bodies require different amounts of calories to maintain lose or gain. So calories matter. |
Definitely overweight. And hypothyroid. I’m 163-165 and only 5’4. I don’t sleep that well, but I try hard to do so. I exercise but when I exercise a lot, I get way more hungry, so I stick to a lot of walking, yoga, and weights a couple of times a week. My version of healthy includes a lot of vegetables, some fruit, beans, limited whole grains like quinoa and brown rice, not a ton of red meat but do eat meat and fish, healthy fats—but measured. Plain unsweetened yogurt and cottage cheese for protein, that kind of thing. Rare alcohol, rare gluten, dark chocolate for my treat….really don’t indulge that much, but I would love to! I can’t do 1-2 meals a day. I tried that and failed miserably. |
I struggle with this too. Skipping meals and skimping calories MAY not be healthy but an excess of weight and wobbly fat covering ones internal organs and entire body and the extra stress on joints and knees is DEFINITELY not healthy! |
Because your body isn’t demanding you eat all the time. |
You should look at the long term studies done on weight. PBS covered them. People's bodies react differently wrt fat storage. Go read about the contestant who lost a lot of weight on the show The Biggest Loser. He had a lab work with him afterward and his body was so efficient at fat storage that he would gain weight if he didn't stick to an extreme deprivation diet. Those of you who assume weight loss is the same experience for everyone are ignorant. There are twin studies that show identical twins raised apart end up in adulthood with the same weight issues. |
None of those extreme exceptions explain this on a population level at all. Yet somehow, everybody in this board is the extreme exception. Funny how that works. |
DP here. My mother, who could never seem to break 100 pounds, ate some version of cheese or PB nabs crackers for lunch almost her entire life. Multiple cups of coffee with cream and sugar in the morning, but no breakfast food. Relatively normal dinner including meat, starch and vegetables. |
When you withhold eating food when your body is “demanding it”, it’s called will power. FFS |
It's probably also because you never taught each other how to diet, so you don't have diet brain and food noise. |
I asked about body fat rather than weight. It doesn’t sound like your mom is eating a whole of nutrients to support her aging body. |
Get the LoseIt app, and track the foods you eat AND the quantities. You will find that the “serving” you had of pasta was actually 3 or 4 servings. It makes you accountable, and it works.
The reason Ozempic works is that it makes people eat less. I guess it makes them less hungry. But the rest of us don’t have to eat something every time we get hungry either. Have a cup or coffee or a glass of water and wait for the next scheduled meal. |
It’s also possible that we all have a different definition of “extreme deprivation diet.” Go to an all-you-can-eat buffet with several friends of different weights. You will see a correlation between their weight and the foods on their plates. Yes some people have different builds, but if “obesity” was a natural build then it wouldn’t have tripled in the past few decades in the US. |
Is it unhealthy though? I don’t think humans were made for the 3 big meals + snacks per day. I think it’s completely fine to eat 2 meals per day. Or to snack on small things all day and have 1 bigger meal. |