I have been lurking around this site off and on for a few years trying to find the right diet. I have avoided the IE thread since I had tried it several years ago and failed. I caved recently and began reading this thread and I have to admit, IE makes sense. I don't have another diet in me and IE seems like a natural way to eat.
About 7 years ago I tried IE. I had lost 12 pounds in 3.5 weeks but I felt lousy. i could not walk up a flight of stairs without getting really tired. I roughly calculated the number of calories I had been eating and I realized I was only getting about 900 or so calories a day. No wonder I was exhausted all the time. I went off the plan at that point.
The instructions were to eat when hungry with hunger being a growl in the stomach, a slight headache or gnawing in the stomach. I found that I experienced these things only twice a day. I ate slow, putting the fork down between bites, and I stopped eating when the hunger signals went away before I was full.
I can't figure out what I did wrong. How do you know when you are hungry? Was I following the hunger signals correctly but maybe I did not eat enough when I was hungry. Was I going past the point of hunger to starving and then not eating enough?
How often do you find you get hungry during the day?
Thank you in advance for your help
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