Must READ! from experienced fitness pal...Hunger PANGS

SO True.... Losing 60lbs without ever being hungry (exept when dinner was late...) and maintaining for three years again without ever being hungry.... And I got fat because I ate too much - not because I was ever hungry....

There's obviously something wrong with you. If you haven't suffered and b!tched and moaned for half your life you haven't lost weight and won't maintain it.

When you run a calorie deficit you are actually denying your body what its asking for...during this period of denial it would be completely normal to feel hunger....with this in mind I looked up the word Pang and Hunger Pang....it’s these hunger pangs or feelings that you must overcome, through discipline, in order to lose those unwanted pounds.....so these are the words that define/describe "pang" or "hunger pang" - twinge, ache, throb, prick, stab, a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a pang of remorse; a pang of desire, a sudden, brief, sharp pain or physical sensation; spasm: hunger pangs, torture - anguish - throes, A sudden sharp feeling of emotional distress, distress acutely, pain, stab, sting, stitch, ache, wrench, prick, spasm, twinge, throe, gnawing, pains in the abdominal region which occur in the early stages of hunger or fasting and are correlated with contractions of the empty stomach or intestines

All of the above words are negative or bad...food stops the pangs and thus eliminating the negative/bad feelings....these negative/bad feelings must be voluntarily subjected/inflicted towards yourself in order to attain your weight loss goals....to endure these bad feelings and push through them and attain your goals, you all need to toughen up and stop being sissys.....if you’re not feeling these negative feelings/bad feeling you are likely not losing weight and likely not working towards your goals and you are likely a sissy (does not apply to mfpallers that are trying to gain weight)....toughen up and reach your goals sooner

I want to be brutally honest and go on the record stating that these hunger pangs will be a part of your life for the rest of your life if this little experiment is to become a lifestyle change....let me explain....at any given moment (a snapshot in time if you will) you are either in a state of weight gain or weight loss, there is no in between! in order to maintain your weight over any length of time you will endure the above bad feelings of hunger pangs for approximately the same amount of time that you don’t experience hunger pangs/bad feelings....now you need to ask yourself if your tough enough and disciplined enough to endure the anguish, the pain, the constant denial, the wrenching of your stomach, the aching, the emotional distress, for approximately HALF of the rest of your life??? you will be denying yourself what you really want to eat for the rest of your life, I know this is true because the "normal old you" the “you” in your natural state got you fat and rarely if ever denied yourself food (does not apply to people on mfp that are trying to gain weight)....only the continued denial of the foods you want in the quantities you want them will allow to reach your weight/fitness goals and then only a very similar denial of foods will allow you to maintain your weight/fitness goals once they are attained....if you’re not willing to accept this reality then you need to go eat a pizza or a chocolate cake or whatever you love right now and just enjoy life being fat…
Otherwise prepare for a lifetime of tremendous and continued discipline…
Agree? Disagree? Why?

I think what you say applies to many people, although it's not quite as bad as all that. If you want to stay trim, you refine your goals and outlook and accept that satisfying every food craving can't be your priority. For people who succeed, feeling strong, good, and healthy is worth it. They try to be around people with similar values.

Unfortunately, you may be criticized as being insufficiently "supportive." Some people don't want the truth, despite what they say.

Yes, this post was not designed to be supportive, it was designed to help people realize and choose what they really want....let them choose between a life of gluttony or a life of denial of food they would normally eat just to be fit and have thoes NSV moments......this post was a warning, this is a life long commitment or else you will be fat again....

Hunger pangs are a breeze, compared to the disgust and pain I feel when I can't easily fit into my pants.

I'll take hunger pangs ANYDAY!!!!

This person has made the choice, this person has adamitly stood up and said, "i want my NSV's over any amount or type of food"...this person is fully aware of the road ahead and has chosen....other weaker people might choose the other route and remain/return to being fat....

And this person gets the idea you might be a little delusional due to a lifetime of hunger pangs.....What are you - a cheerleader for hungry people?:bigsmile: :drinker:

I do not believe this is true at all. Since March, I have lost 105 pounds and I do not have constant hunger pangs. If I am truly hungry, I eat. I eat a LOT of food, it is just much healthier, lower calorie food than I was eating before. I still get the amount of food that I need to be healthy and full.

I do not believe this is true at all. Since March, I have lost 105 pounds and I do not have constant hunger pangs. If I am truly hungry, I eat. I eat a LOT of food, it is just much healthier, lower calorie food than I was eating before. I still get the amount of food that I need to be healthy and full.

I guess you must be doing it wrong too.

Dang it, I thought I was doing so well!!! I will try hard to be more miserable!!!

It's the only way to have sustainable weight loss. Misery. Forever.

Hunger pangs are a breeze, compared to the disgust and pain I feel when I can't easily fit into my pants.

I'll take hunger pangs ANYDAY!!!!

This person has made the choice, this person has adamitly stood up and said, "i want my NSV's over any amount or type of food"...this person is fully aware of the road ahead and has chosen....other weaker people might choose the other route and remain/return to being fat....

Hunger pangs aren't a necessary part of weight loss. Eat foods with a low calorie density(less calories per volume) such as vegetables, instead of eating high calorie foods. foods loaded with a lot of fat and low in fiber.

You are correct, you never did say binge or starve, but I'm pretty sure calling "hunger pangs, torture - anguish - throes" is describing "starving". The same as you saying being gluttonous and eating everything you want whenever you want is not a whole lot different than "bingeing".

Definitions:

starve (stɑːv)

— vb (foll by of or for ) (foll by into )
1. to die or cause to die from lack of food
2. to deprive (a person or animal) or (of a person, etc) to be deprived of food
3. informal ( intr ) to be very hungry

Yes, one may not be dying from lack of food, but the descriptions you gave apply to #s 2 and 3

binge (bɪndʒ)

— n
1. a bout of excessive eating or drinking
2. excessive indulgence in anything

— vb , binges , bingeing , binging , binged

gluttony (ˈɡlʌtənɪ)

— n
the act or practice of eating to excess

I'm pretty sure that both definitions of binge are also the same as living a life of gluttony.

After reading one of your other most recent posts where you described how you lost a lot of weight very quickly, you do seem to be promoting a binge-eating or binge-purge lifestyle. If you truly regularly eat 2000-4000 calories per day and are regularly feeling agonizing hungry, that tells me you are probably bingeing and eating those calories all at one time then purging yourself by exercise or "starving" yourself.

Well, when i defined pang and hunger pang thoes were not my words thoes were the defionitions i found on the first 10 hits google gave me....i dont mean to imply i feel all thoes things half of the time, just some of them...

as far as purge goes, well i dont do that, so i have nothing to say about it

as far as gluttony goes, i will tend to eat something i know i shouldnt eat in excess once a week or less