Sick and Tired of feeling Hungry

For the 10th time, I ate a lot of junk food and lost 192lbs. I ate many oreo's, nutty butters, burritos, taco bell, ben and jerries, double cheese burgers all through my weight loss

Belowis a list of "healthy" food

Try this healthy diet for a month and tell us how it goes.

breakfast: 2 eggs with 3 table spoons olive oil 500 calories
snack: 10 dried figs 477 calories
lunch: diced avocado with 2 tables of olive oil and seasoning 490 calories
snack: 10 dried figs 477 calories
dinner/desert: 10 tbs of natural peanut butter 950 calories

Honestly, what do you think will happen??? Oh btw the total amount of calories is ~ 3000 calories.

And if you keep eating that unhealthy stuff you will not keep the weight off. Your body needs healthy foods. You are right though the fact that I was thin most of my life because of healthy eating habits means I know nothing. I have seen this same argument since I was a child and saw my mother say the same things. She lost it all but then gained it all back. Continued this behavior through 3 heart attacks and is now almost 70 and is still over weight. She never learned to eat fruits and vegetables because she lost weight while eating Oreos My other family members have done the same thing. Lose and gain. They say look I can eat what I want. Sure you can loose weight and still have a cheese burger here and there but it can not be a staple. Healthy foods are a MUST. Your body needs these nutrients. and it is sad that in this day and age Fruits and veggies are not as respected as Oreo's.

I am gone from this conversation because obviously people want to eat the oreo's and feel they can still loose and maintain weight loss. Like I said I have seen it throughout my life. Same argument for 40 years and it has not worked long term in all that time.

Long term weight loss is about habits, not food choices. There are many many people who eat junk 24/7 and are at a healthy weight. I think you're misunderstanding, no one is saying eat junk food 24/7. Why did your mother gain it back? Because she ate "junk food" she lost the weight doing it. She gained it back because she didn't learn the proper habits to keep it off. Had nothing to do with the food.

But you are a man and have an automatic weight loss advantage over a woman. Women have 2 to 3 times the level of circulating leptin at the SAME BODY FAT LEVEL as a man. What that means is that just about every obese woman has leptin resistance. For many, many obese women, restricting carbohydrates is the only way to get (and keep) blood sugar under control (which is the real villain that stalks a woman's weight loss efforts). Because we have estrogen, not only do we run higher blood sugar levels but we also have 5 to 6 times the amount of thyroid dysfunction (because estrogen blocks the uptake of iodine). And since none of us go around munching iodine-rich dulse and kelp every day, a great many obese women have thyroid disease which is exacerbated by high-carb diets. Men can just cut back their eating. Women must pay attention to not only calories but the KIND of calories they are eating. Also, because men are larger in body mass, they can always out-eat a woman and not gain body fat.

No, calories are calories, all what you said might "lower" your TDEE, but your TDEE is still your TDEE. Eat under your TDEE and you will lose weight. You shouldn't buy in to that insulin theory so much. Insulin is control by calories, leptin is controled by calories as well. It's all about calories, always has been, always will be.

For the 10th time, I ate a lot of junk food and lost 192lbs. I ate many oreo's, nutty butters, burritos, taco bell, ben and jerries, double cheese burgers all through my weight loss

Belowis a list of "healthy" food

Try this healthy diet for a month and tell us how it goes.

breakfast: 2 eggs with 3 table spoons olive oil 500 calories
snack: 10 dried figs 477 calories
lunch: diced avocado with 2 tables of olive oil and seasoning 490 calories
snack: 10 dried figs 477 calories
dinner/desert: 10 tbs of natural peanut butter 950 calories

Honestly, what do you think will happen??? Oh btw the total amount of calories is ~ 3000 calories.

And if you keep eating that unhealthy stuff you will not keep the weight off. Your body needs healthy foods. You are right though the fact that I was thin most of my life because of healthy eating habits means I know nothing. I have seen this same argument since I was a child and saw my mother say the same things. She lost it all but then gained it all back. Continued this behavior through 3 heart attacks and is now almost 70 and is still over weight. She never learned to eat fruits and vegetables because she lost weight while eating Oreos My other family members have done the same thing. Lose and gain. They say look I can eat what I want. Sure you can loose weight and still have a cheese burger here and there but it can not be a staple. Healthy foods are a MUST. Your body needs these nutrients. and it is sad that in this day and age Fruits and veggies are not as respected as Oreo's.

I am gone from this conversation because obviously people want to eat the oreo's and feel they can still loose and maintain weight loss. Like I said I have seen it throughout my life. Same argument for 40 years and it has not worked long term in all that time.

Long term weight loss is about habits, not food choices. There are many many people who eat junk 24/7 and are at a healthy weight. I think you're misunderstanding, no one is saying eat junk food 24/7. Why did your mother gain it back? Because she ate "junk food" she lost the weight doing it. She gained it back because she didn't learn the proper habits to keep it off. Had nothing to do with the food.

But you are a man and have an automatic weight loss advantage over a woman. Women have 2 to 3 times the level of circulating leptin at the SAME BODY FAT LEVEL as a man. What that means is that just about every obese woman has leptin resistance. For many, many obese women, restricting carbohydrates is the only way to get (and keep) blood sugar under control (which is the real villain that stalks a woman's weight loss efforts). Because we have estrogen, not only do we run higher blood sugar levels but we also have 5 to 6 times the amount of thyroid dysfunction (because estrogen blocks the uptake of iodine). And since none of us go around munching iodine-rich dulse and kelp every day, a great many obese women have thyroid disease which is exacerbated by high-carb diets. Men can just cut back their eating. Women must pay attention to not only calories but the KIND of calories they are eating. Also, because men are larger in body mass, they can always out-eat a woman and not gain body fat.

No, calories are calories, all what you said might "lower" your TDEE, but your TDEE is still your TDEE. Eat under your TDEE and you will lose weight. You shouldn't buy in to that insulin theory so much. Insulin is control by calories, leptin is controled by calories as well. It's all about calories, always has been, always will be.

I was well on my way to Type II diabetes when I hit the carbohydrate brakes and put things to rights. Yes--total calories are important BUT, if at the end, your nutritional status is poor, you will regain the weight. I followed calorie-restricted diets for years--I'm NOT a newbie. But when I paid attention to only the calories and not the TYPE of calories, I felt (and looked) like junk when I was done. And the weight inevitably came back. I have SLOWLY lost my weight over the last three years and I have NOT ONCE gained an ounce back. The reason why is that I eat VERY WELL. I pay as much attention to WHAT I am eating as I am to how much I am eating and it is paying the dividends that I need. I could eat 1,380 calories in doughnuts every day, and I would likely lose weight, but I would feel like crap and NEVER be able to keep it off.

P.S. You should read up on leptin. Did you read what I wrote?

I read up on leptin years ago, I am majoring in biochemistry, so i know all about leptin and the hormones you mentioned. I still stick to what i said.

You're saying you haven't gained weight back because you eat very well... So you're saying when you only focused on your calories you gained it back? How is that possible, unless you start to eat above your TDEE and gain weight back. You gained it back because you ate over your TDEE. Not because of the food you ate.

As I said before, no one is saying "eat junk food 24/7" our point is weight loss is about calories. You want a donut and it fits in to your calories, eat it. No big deal. If you want to eat 10 donuts... not a good idea.

My point is, which i have said already is for people to stick to a weight loss plan. You think someone who is obese stuffing their face with chips, pizzas, burgers everyday can do a 180 with their diet? and eat "healthy?" over night? It doesn't work like that. What you and the other lady are saying will read someone to failure, because they just can't stick to it. If these people ate the food they usually eat and slightly cut their calories, that's more manageable. Over time they should clean up their diet.

So I guess the question is how do I kill the craving to eat. I been keeping up with the water intake thus far yay but not nearly enough veggies because I do not like how they taste X_x I sound like a little kid.

and anyone who thinks that fructose is dangerous to human health, bear in mind that we're primates and most species of primates eat fruit (which is full of fructose). are you going to call the zoo and tell them they should stop feeding fruit to all the other species of primate?

"...So you have a choice, eat food that you find bland(pain), or eat junk food and be hungry(pain). You have to pay the price either way. .."

To the contrary, I find the natural diet I follow to be very tasty. It is a matter of getting your palate adjusted to eating real food. In addition, I am never hungry. A natural diet full of nutrients is a win-win, all the way around.

yes your palate has to "adjust" to it. It takes time won't happen over night. I like food that is less processed. Doesn't mean that someone who is stuffing their face with pizza, and root beer, burgers, fries, chips, and Twinkies everyday who weighs 500+ lbs will be able to do your recommendations. That's my point. you guys are doing extremes.