What about hunger?

Is it so bad to feel a little each day? Most of the time, are you head hungry or actually hungry?  what do you do about it?

Well considering I don't feel much hunger these days unless I stay up past 11pm....the meds wear off and it all catches up with me....but thats beside the point. Let's see when I feel hunger I am like Bud on this I get happy lol so yes I am weird on that aspect as well. I like the hunger feeling unless you know its been super long and I am starving lol. Then I get very irratable and *****y until I get food. Which leads me to I am a total ***** these days..the Phen is making me extremely irratable...o****ep going off track here. Ok so what do I do about the hunger....drink my water. Usually it curbs it. If not then I stuff something in my mouth lol something healthy and small. Or if I am at home and I feel hunger I drink my water, maybe work out, or I go to sleep so it goes away lol. :)

crackhead!  LOL I LOVED what you and Bud said about feeling better about feeling hunger makes you feel leaner.  me, too.  I finally get that feeling a vague amount of hunger compared to feeling overstuffed and overfed is WAAAAAy preferable.  I love to simply observe my hunger feelings without reacting.  i was doing that way too often...feell hunger...eat...ugh...me cavewoman.

You know I experience this same thing.  When I was eating myself into oblivion the last few months I kept remember how much I missed being hungry.  But for whatever reason I kept stuffing it in.. almost an addiction to the overstuffed feeling.  So yes, I too love the feeling of hunger. If it's starts churning though, then it's time to feed it with water and food if it continues. I have another problem though.  Because I enjoy the feeling of hunger my brain thinks I'm bad when I feel sated or 'full'.  I find myself mistaking feeling full for feeling overstuffed and I tend to want to beat myself up.  go figure.

I can relate to that as well Chris. The feeling full now days I always take a second to beat myself up about it and then realize a couple seconds later geez Christa you barely ate anything what the hell are you mad about. Then I come back to reality.

haha I love what nee cee said about you Christa sorry!!  You are all talking and you get off subject and then you start again. And reading any of your posts I am sorry  but it does crack me up!! I can just hear the energy in your words. Love it! Bud actually gave me a positive thing to think about..hunger pains are good.. And I heard at work yesterday..someone said..I love waking up hungry because then i know i didn't over eat at dinner lastnight. So I thought well thats a great thing to think about and to me it makes sense. So it gave me a total new attitude towards waking up hungry. And being on here and reading what people on here say..it makes me think about it more positive and realize hey the hunger pains are good.. I have just been watching what I eat and have been exercising for not even a week yet..I haven't been doing snacks which is obviously hurting me more then anything.. i got home lastnight from work at 4:30..I was hungry at 2:30..but just kept drinking my water..i ate way to much for dinner and I could tell that I did because I didn't want to walk..i felt sick to my stomach.and i was MISERABLE!! It makes me wonder why i do this to myself when i hate feeling like that.. Well today..i have goofed again..I just did NOT wan****er with my lunch..so i bought me a diet coke out of the machine up here at work..haven't drank even half of it..and my stomach is starting to hurt and I am feeling bloated!! So yeah..theres mistake  number 2..but hey i am learning.. I am a huge pepsi drinker and I have gone from drinking 4 a day to NONE. So within almost a week..this has been my first carbonated drink..yeah don't plan on finishing this one or having another.. haha yeah kinda like Christa i got TOTALLY off the subject!! I just think of most you are great on here..and you guys are giving me a lot of new ways to think about things..instead of the negative ways..the positive.. Thank You!

HAHAHAHA! I know I always go off track get back to what the point was then go right back off into my own little world lol. I am a spaz when I type and talk haha.

I don't know how much science is behind this ....but I think I remember hearing this somewhere... I swear by this because I tried it and it has changed my life....literally.... I notice a HUGE difference in head hunger depending on whether I am getting enough slee*****t.  I made it a priority to get my 8 hours (that's what my body does well on) a night about 4-6 weeks ago, and just since the last two weeks it has made a world of difference.  I noticed it even before I really started eating differently.  Yes, I still feel hunger, but at appropriate times -- and it isn't the type where your body nags you to eat junk and just won't let you say no.  God have I been there!  I can't think of anything else that would have caused this type of shift in me, unless God answered my prayers!  It is really the only MAJOR change I made in my life before the beginning of the year.   I eat breakfast, then a snack, then lunch, a snack, and then dinner.  If I get hungry other than that, I grab something small to hold me over.  I have never been one who could stand drinking all the protein shakes and all of that to keep me full.  The sleep thing though has made a WORLD of difference for me!

Good post! Lately, I've seen more on studies about obesity and sleep patterns.  You made me think about HALT.  Overeaters Anon was the first place I learned about HALT...when you feel hunger ask: am I Hungry?  this is the time to pause and survey..when was the last time I ate, what things am I missing to make a balanced day? etc Am I Angry?  I used to be super guilty of this - macking when I was angry, angry about life, angry I could not control my food, blah blah. Am I Lonely? nuf said Am i Tired?  It makes sense to think that when we feel tired, we think, "oh i will eat something, then i'll feel better".  i am my own Jewish mother on this type of thing! I alwasy think that way.  I now do not always ACT on it!  LOL.  I've always done better in all areas of my life when i have enough sleep...I am a MESS with too little. I need at least 7.5 hours a night, prefer 8-9!   Good points you had!

For myself, I don't like feeling hungry.  I have become more used to it than before.  Being hungry on the weekend is a no, no.  It increases my chances of cheating way too much.  Through the day when I'm at work, I believe it's real hunger since I don't eat as much.  Since I'm at work not much I can do about it.  I am greatful that we don't have any vending machines here like my hubby does at his job.  He is always in those things.  I'm happy as long as I don't cheat at lunch.  Generally I don't which is good.  Of an evening, definitely head hunger.  I have one snack generally between 7:00 - 7:30 and don't eat after that.  Sometimes I know I'm really not hungry, I just like to eat when I watch T.V.  BAD HABIT!! Brenda