January/February weight management challenge

[ny biker]

Maybe.

I know that I am never full and I am always hungry. I just aim for "less full" and "less hungry."

Do you mean your stomach is always rumbling?

[goldfinch]

Do you mean your stomach is always rumbling?

It is more the drive, the desire for food. Appetite is more than a rumbly stomach.

I even remember when this started, though my doctor poos poos this. Years ago I got pregnant and ended up with way out of whack hormones. This made me ill and I would vomit many times a day. Think morning sickness times 100. I had to be fed through a feeding tube and given liquids intervenously. I lost a lot weight that I could not afford to lose. This went on for a couple of months and then I miscarried. The hormones went back to normal and I was Hungry. I was hungry like I could never have imagined before being hungry. I never was not hungry. I never was full. I gained a lot of weight.

I think this is what happens with many people who go on starvation diets. Their bodies are driven to eat.

For years I felt the ever present hunger. It eased off somewhat with time but never has truly left.

I am sure that there are both physical and psychological components to my drive to eat. I have been pretty successful dealing with eating triggers, or as the behaviorists say, the discriminative stimuli. For example, I can't talk about diet and food a lot because it makes me hungry. I am hungry right now and want a snack, even though I am 100 calories over my daily allotment. I need to go do something else, that does not trigger an eating desire, but cues something else, like getting sleepy.