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.

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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.