I'm like just keep swimming and mariarose: I have noticed a correlation.

I've noticed that those weeks where I am hungrier than usual, and I eat at the top of my calorie range (1,200-1,600) all week, are the ones where I drop the most weight.

It's like my body is trying to reassure itself that I am not starving it before it will release the weight. By eating a little more than I normally do I guess it sends the message that all is well, and the weight comes off.



Curvaliscious and KforKitty: Thanks for the great insights on this! What both of you said makes total sense to me. :)

Honestly, if it makes you feel good and productive to equate hunger with fat loss, I'd say go for it! :) We all need motivation where you can get it.

A rumbling tummy just means that your stomach is preparing to receive food by beginning to release digestive juices, based on a trigger from the brain saying "food is coming". Now the reason your brain may be saying that could be one of a dozen things - maybe it's noon and you always eat at noon, or maybe you smelled your deskmates lunch, or maybe you saw a commercial for a hamburger ... etc. That rumbly-tummy-empty-feeling is all brain triggered.

But factually, hunger is not any indication of potential fat loss.

Sorry. :D

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I too seem to see a correlation between hunger and weight loss. I tend to feel really hungry in the evening sometimes after I have eaten my usual "quota" of food. It seems that after those hungry evenings my scale goes down. Kind of weird.

I never lose weight when I am hungry. I have a rule (really my one and only steadfast dieting rule) that if I am truly hungry then I eat. Period. I am not going to starve myself just to lose an extra pound or so. When I lose the most weight is when I'm not thinking a lot about eating, just planning out my meals, and eating sort of automatically. Usually takes me about 4-5 On Plan days to get to that stage, so I do my best not to get out of it.