Do you eat even when you are not hungry?

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  • lauren3101
    lauren3101 Posts: 1,853 Member
    I've never had much trouble hitting my calories, but I do have a problem with binge eating. I had a bad one on Monday so decided to look back through and see if there was a pattern (I keep every detail possible on a spreadsheet). The last 5 binges I had; I'd either undereaten the day before, or gone out for a meal (so triggering my 'f**k it I've been bad anyway' mode).

    Moral of the story is, while I was pleased I'd somehow finished 500 calories under my goal last weekend, my body obviously wasn't, as I felt tired (so couldn't be bothered to cook my healthy dinner), hungry all day and I craved sugar. So yes, I'd advise eating your calories. Peanut butter is good as it's a lot of cals for little volume of food.
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    Only if I'm way under at the end of the day.
  • miadhail
    miadhail Posts: 383 Member
    For me, that only happens when I see junkfood I like, such as chips. Lol. So I make sure to have none of those in my house, at least not in plain sight. I only eat when I am hungry or whenever I planned my meals. =)
  • leighann881
    leighann881 Posts: 371
    I don't. It all balances out over time. I might be way under on Monday but be over on Wednesday. At the end of the week it's all pretty even.
  • leighann881
    leighann881 Posts: 371
    LOL - so many different thoughts! I don't have an eating disorder, and my hormone levels are fine (we just renewed our life insurance and had to have a battery of tests - I'm perfectly healthy). I have never been a yo-yo dieter either, but have also always eaten "because it was time to eat" so I am trying to work on listening to my body. I seem to be doing OK and got a lot of interesting replies! So thank you everyone :-)

    My husband is in the military. I have no problem losing or maintaining weight when he isn't home. Why? Because when he is gone its a lot easier to only eat when hungry when yours is the only belly to feed. Conversely, whenever I'm being really "good" and he is home the poor guy drops weight so fast because the meals I cool simply don't have the caloric values he needs to maintain/gain. This is really tricky to try to balance. If you consiatently find yourself eating just because someone else is sharing a meal with you then you could be hindering your progress inadvertently.

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