| >But this intelectual knowledge doesn't really help if your body is telling you it's hungry all the time and it's hard not to eat something. Better choices can help, because different calories deliver different satiety; but some people don't get much satiety no matter what they eat. Maybe try to figure out why you’re feeling hungry. Is it because you’re running a 1000 kcal deficit? Can your body really tell whether you ate 200–300 kcal less today than you did yesterday? Most of us can easily notice a 1000 kcal difference, but very few can reliably detect a day-to-day difference of just 200–300 kcal. What are your maintenance calories? Are they around 1800 kcal, where even a 300 kcal deficit puts you on a 1500 kcal diet? That’s very little food for many people. In that case, it may be better to focus on increasing your maintenance calories by becoming more active in daily life. Deficit = TDEE - Intake either drop intake or boost tdee or do both. If you managed to boost your tdee to 2500kcal, now a deficit of 300kcal means you eat 2200kcal day to day and 2200kcal isn't very little food making diet easy to follow. >There's a lot of variance among humans, but everybody seems to want a one size fits all approach to eating. I think there isn't as much variance as people like to believe, how many people you see walking around you with 3 eyes? and 4 hands? |
I know several people who are feeling hungry because they're not dead, regardless of how much calorie surplus or deficit they have.
We can do the same activities and eat the same meals and I'll be satied and they will be hungry. Or I can confuse the hell out of them when we do some big activity and I say "i'm not hungry, we worked too hard"... or when we miss a meal by several hours and I tell them "I'm not hungry anymore, it's been too long... but I should probably eat something"
> I think there isn't as much variance as people like to believe,
Oh sure, I don't think everyone is really a unique snowflake, there are patterns. You can find lots of people in these threads who have a broken hunger sensor. You can find lots of people in these threads that can manage this intellectually. I don't see a lot of people in these threads like me who keep a healthy(ish) weight because IBS punishes them for bad food choices, but I'm sure they're out there. Plenty of people out there where celiac drives their relationship between calories in and calories out.
Diet research would be a lot more interesting if there were ways to classify people by their 'metabolism type' and then see what can work for which type. Maybe there would be more reproducability that way, too.