Are you less hungry as you get older?
MostlyWater
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I would say yes but when I exercise I am ravenous. I don't think the key to a diet is to give up exercise though.
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Anyone able to see this is living in a society of such prosperity that food is locally abundant and cheap. Have we become a people not knowing true hunger?0
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Yes we are a nation that doesn't understand true hunger. I hope it stays that way for my children.0
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In short the answer for me is no. I have a healthy appetite. I'm quite active so I'm often hungry. My biggest issue is making sure I eat the right foods.0
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Yeah, I have a healthy appetite but then I exercise regularly...1
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I find I am more conscious of portions now, I mean with all the logging and weighing, hard not be. I look at portions that I used to consume with little thought, that I could not eat now. But is that due to age, or due to retraining myself on what full actually feels like? Not sure.4
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I agree with montepulciano, I eat better and less. I don't know if age has anything to do with it, but I do believe the way I ate that got me to 270 pounds was just bad.3
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My appetite increases with exercise and decreases without it. In some ways I feel as though I eat more now than I used to when I was heavier because the calories are different. I eat healthier, less snacks and sweets, so I think I'm using food in a different way.
I recently cut back on exercise quite a bit because of an injured knee and so I cut my calories back daily by about 200 calories but at 5'7" and 66 years old I'm losing weight ever so slowly on about 1400 calories per day on non exercise days and probably eat around 1700 on days that I do exercise. That doesn't seem too bad to me. I'm eating in a deficit again after maintaining for about a year because I've decided I want to lose another 10 lbs.
My normal TDEE when I run/walk/swim 2 or 3 days a week and lift weights 3 days per week is a little over 2000 calories so I can easily maintain there if I'm putting the exercise in.
I'm always really hungry in the morning and less hungry in the afternoon and evening so most of my calories are consumed earlier. That's probably because when I exercise it's early in the morning.
I think the reason people may be less hungry as they age is because they are more sedentary. The same reason people say it's more difficult to lose weight as we age. Exercise changes all that IMO.5 -
No. I am as hungry today as I was as a teenager, perhaps more so. Sadly, my metabolism is not on the same youth kick as my appetite.0
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