Anonymous wrote:For the people super hungry in the morning: you are dehydrated. Drink a ton of ice water in the morning and this will go away. I used to have this problem but switched to protein powder smoothies with berries with lots of water for breakfast, 3 cups of coffee, and 2 cold water bottles before 11am. The sheer volume of water keeps me full til noon.

Not me. If I drank a ton of ice water in the morning, I would vomit it back up instantly. My stomach is empty, probably because I haven't eaten in 10+ hours. I need food. It's okay.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm STARVING with 90 minutes when I have oatmeal for breakfast.

Stop using the word "starving" to describe your state of being, especially with any emphasis. Seriously, there's a body of cognitive psychology research showing that genetically/"naturally" thin people just don't think about food and/or dwell on feelings of fullness/lack of fullness very much.

So helpful.

Well, it is helpful, actually. Americans seem to think that even the slightest twinge of hunger is an emergency and immediately stuff themselves with snacks. I guarantee you, it’s not an emergency and you are not starving. You need to get past whatever emotional baggage you carry that won’t allow you to make it from one meal to another without snacking.

Again, oh so helpful. Are you the PCP from the other thread who would give a referral to woman for a mental health screen because all she need was to lose weight and go on a diet? Geeesh.

Nope, I don’t know what thread you’re talking about. But if you really can’t make it through the day without grazing between meals, your problem is probably not physical. But go ahead and look for easy answers instead. (For the record, this is 16:15, a different poster than 12:16.)

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Anonymous wrote:I'm STARVING with 90 minutes when I have oatmeal for breakfast.

Stop using the word "starving" to describe your state of being, especially with any emphasis. Seriously, there's a body of cognitive psychology research showing that genetically/"naturally" thin people just don't think about food and/or dwell on feelings of fullness/lack of fullness very much.

So helpful.

Well, it is helpful, actually. Americans seem to think that even the slightest twinge of hunger is an emergency and immediately stuff themselves with snacks. I guarantee you, it’s not an emergency and you are not starving. You need to get past whatever emotional baggage you carry that won’t allow you to make it from one meal to another without snacking.

Again, oh so helpful. Are you the PCP from the other thread who would give a referral to woman for a mental health screen because all she need was to lose weight and go on a diet? Geeesh.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm STARVING with 90 minutes when I have oatmeal for breakfast.

Stop using the word "starving" to describe your state of being, especially with any emphasis. Seriously, there's a body of cognitive psychology research showing that genetically/"naturally" thin people just don't think about food and/or dwell on feelings of fullness/lack of fullness very much.

So helpful.

Well, it is helpful, actually. Americans seem to think that even the slightest twinge of hunger is an emergency and immediately stuff themselves with snacks. I guarantee you, it’s not an emergency and you are not starving. You need to get past whatever emotional baggage you carry that won’t allow you to make it from one meal to another without snacking.

My mom is obese - she starves herself all day then binges at dinnertime. Totally blows IF out of the water. I feel like IF probably screws with metabolism. I have tried it and skipped my daily oatmeal breakfast (oats, fruit, nuts, whole milk) and it’s made zero difference in my weight (90lbs, but very short). My body appears stuck at this weight regardless of how much I eat/don’t eat and exercise/don’t exercise.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm STARVING with 90 minutes when I have oatmeal for breakfast.

Stop using the word "starving" to describe your state of being, especially with any emphasis. Seriously, there's a body of cognitive psychology research showing that genetically/"naturally" thin people just don't think about food and/or dwell on feelings of fullness/lack of fullness very much.

So helpful.

Anonymous wrote:just dont eat anything

Unfortunately, this. On weekdays, I try to eat very very little. No breakfast, string cheese for lunch, salad or eggs for dinner. Lots of coffee and water.

Anonymous wrote:I'm STARVING with 90 minutes when I have oatmeal for breakfast.

Stop using the word "starving" to describe your state of being, especially with any emphasis. Seriously, there's a body of cognitive psychology research showing that genetically/"naturally" thin people just don't think about food and/or dwell on feelings of fullness/lack of fullness very much.

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ALCOHOL

Bingo

Most people do not drink enough alcohol for it to make that much of a difference. I genuinely do not understand why this is offered up so often. Some of the heaviest people I know are non-drinkers.

+2

I was a daily drinker before becoming sober seven months ago. My appearance has improved, but my weight has not budged.

Some of my thinnest friends are heavy drinkers. I think they drink in lieu of eating. So I guess that's a +3.

Drunkorexia

They screw up their digestive systems/liver so that what they do drink goes right through them.

*eat not drink

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ALCOHOL

Bingo

Most people do not drink enough alcohol for it to make that much of a difference. I genuinely do not understand why this is offered up so often. Some of the heaviest people I know are non-drinkers.

+2

I was a daily drinker before becoming sober seven months ago. My appearance has improved, but my weight has not budged.

Some of my thinnest friends are heavy drinkers. I think they drink in lieu of eating. So I guess that's a +3.

Drunkorexia

They screw up their digestive systems/liver so that what they do drink goes right through them.

Anonymous wrote:Damn your post is such a bummer. I eat fruit and oatmeal every morning and already only drink water. I'm fat as a house.

Lol, I know. If I could lose weight quickly by simply switching out one zero calorie beverage for another zero calorie beverage, I would be over the moon!

I can't remember the last time I had a pastry. I would be stunned if switching from Kashi to oatmeal and a banana would lead to weight loss.

Alcohol

Bread (use lettuce wraps, whole-grain crackers, etc.)

Soda, even diet soda, which is very bloating

Juice

Cut your portions. Go ahead and have rice with your fish, just eat 1/3 or 1/2 of what you normally would.

Snacks. Stop eating between meals.

For me it was

A. Stop drinking calories - no more soda (except diet, but weaned off that too) or lemonade, rarely drink juice. Pretty much only drink coffee (no sweeteners) water, milk and beer (the latter only a few a week)

B. No more late night snacking

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ALCOHOL

Bingo

Most people do not drink enough alcohol for it to make that much of a difference. I genuinely do not understand why this is offered up so often. Some of the heaviest people I know are non-drinkers.

+2

I was a daily drinker before becoming sober seven months ago. My appearance has improved, but my weight has not budged.

+3. I stopped my craft beer daily drinking which was getting a little too much. It’s been nearly two years. I kept waiting for the weight loss. And it’s not like I preplaced those calories. I can’t understand it. Maybe it’s a mental trick, but I feel my body looked more fit when I was drinking my high calorie and high alcohol IPAs.

I think the real trick is not WHAT you cut out. It’s that you just eat fewer calories and exercise vigorously.

Incredibly high hops levels actually burn calories, doncha know?