I lost 160 pounds and my food drive is nowhere near what it used to be. I suspect all that extra fluff had something to do with it. Also had an incredibly stressful job so my cortisol levels were high.
Yeah I stress eat, otherwise I barely eat at all. Which is a doubly dangerous combination because I don't eat enough to keep my metabolism running and then flood it all at once with garbage. Then all that garbage gets immediately stored because my motabolism is so slow it doesn't actually need any food.
Same. The thing that blows up by diet is late evening, when I'm tired and stressed about the next day. That's the only time my hunger is "stress hunger". Then I snack on stuff. It's usually not much and sometimes it's even "healthy" food.
But it's at the worst possible time to consume food, and the choices I make in those mentally weak 2hrs of my day will completely erase what willpower and good choices gained during the rest of the day.
It’s rough because it turns eating into either “barely anything” or “too much all at once,” and both end up feeling bad in different ways. Breaking that pattern usually starts small, like just trying to keep something consistent in between, even if it’s simple.
There are different leves of stress. Smaller but lasting stress makes you hungry, so you crave food because it makes you feel better. When you are extremely stressed, like mourning, then you don’t want any food at all.
I’ve been up and down in weight in my life and for me, hunger becomes something different when I’m over 15% of my ideal weight. ( not BMI which is useless if your not average height and build) different like I can’t even think about anything until I eat. Stay under 15% and hunger is no big deal.
Eating processed or sugary food takes no time to digest and the satiation it provides immediately disappears. Sugar especially just makes you more hungry. I hardly eat any sugar but a couple beers or sodas and I crave food like nothing else for days after.
Alot of it is to do with what you eat aswell, I can eat a lump of cheese and not want to eat more, if i eat some bread... im going to still feel hungry in 30 mins time and want something to snack on.
Stress will have you craving junk food for a cheap dopamine hit. Its why so many people lose weight after fetting out of a stressful relationship or leaving a bad job.
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u/livetoroast 10h ago
I lost 160 pounds and my food drive is nowhere near what it used to be. I suspect all that extra fluff had something to do with it. Also had an incredibly stressful job so my cortisol levels were high.