Thoughts on Under Eating When Not Hungry
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While I use the daily 1500 calorie budget as a guideline, I pay more attention to my weekly totals-- which averages somewhere between 10,000 (or ~1428/day) and 11,500 (or ~1643/day). I've found I have a pretty predictable weekly hunger/eating pattern: Sundays and Mondays I'm usually right at 1400-1500; Tuesdays and Wednesdays are usually really low (maybe 1000- 1100); Thursdays I'm back to about 1400-1500, and then on Fridays and Saturdays I could be as high as 3,000 (!). But that makes a weekly total of ~11,000-- so I'm still in budget for the week, (and losing about 1.5 lbs per week.)0
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leahraskie wrote: »If you aren't hungry, you aren't hungry. It's not like you aren't eating anything that day, just continue to eat when you feel hungry. You aren't forcing yourself to starve so it likely wouldn't have a negative impact on anything- you might be getting a decent level of glucose when you do eat and your body just stays happy throughout the day.
There are people with eating disorders don't feel hungry either.
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I have those little caloric days on weekends where I don't meet my 1900-2000 goal.
There was a time when I'd eat 500-800 calories a day for a month. It was horrible, my metabolism crashed and it made it impossible to cut fat since I was already low and working out.0
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