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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Being hungry all the time or everyday to stay “thin” and believing it is “willpower” is worse for your overall health than being overweight[/b].[/quote]

Who is actually, truly "hungry" all the time? Is your stomach doing that painful scraping thing??

No one eating more than 1500 calories/day is ever actually hungry, unless they're running 10 miles a day.

I think many people confuse cravings, boredom, or lack of fullness for "hunger." Because if you're eating a decent amount (say 1500 calories) and still feeling that painful scraping feeling in your stomach, you need to see a doctor.
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1500 calories a day isn’t a lot.

Wasn’t there an Ancel Keys study during WWII where they restricted men’s calories to 1500 calories a day for six months, and they all went kind of crazy?  
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PP here, and I agree that 1500 isn't a lot if one is active and female. It's the amount many women should eat if they were at rest, all day every day.

But most of us get a bit of movement here and there. 1500, however, is fine if if you're trying to lose weight (and no sorry, I don't believe the "I can't lose weight on 1200 calories!" posters). Point being, you're not going to actually feel physical hunger if you're eating 1500 calories/day. 
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I don’t know.  Those guys started hoarding food, got mildly depressed, stopped being interested in sex, and got obsessed with thinking about themselves and their health.

They also had a ton of trouble when they started eating normally again.

It doesn’t sound good.  
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Are those dudes like 6'10" and weight 250lbs? Well yeah, they should eat more than 1500 calories.

But a 5'5" woman? 1500 is perfectly healthy, if you're trying to drop a couple lbs. It's odd that you think 1500 is low. That's literally how much they'd feed most women if they were in a coma (and it would be perfectly healthy). 
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That is an inch taller than the average American woman. I’m 5’1” — apps telling me what I should eat to maintain my weight is 1500 calories if I strenuously exercise 5x a week. With no exercise I’d be at 1,200 calories. And to lose slowly they put me even lower.[/quote]

With my stats (5'3", 130lbs, 43) my BMR is around 1250. But that's basically if I were in a coma, and *not* digesting food. Even digesting food burns calories, so that number is actually low-balled compared to real life.

Also, it points to the importance of exercise. With exercise 6 days a week, I actually eat about 2300 calories/day to maintain. My exercise includes running, weights, walking, cleaning my own home, and generally being quite active (and yes I have a full time job outside of the house). Exercise raises your resting metabolism, including of course the calories burned *while* exercising.

But if you're an averaged weight/height woman, and eat 1500 calories while putzing around (being active but not necessarily exercising) 1500 calories is perfectly sufficient.

But the point of the previous posts was that you're not going to feel physically hungry eating about 1500 calories a day, and most of the people who say they're "hungry" are having cravings or boredom. [/quote]

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