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Originally Posted by SouthernMaven
... but I had one friend years ago who absolutely hated to eat. I know, crazy, huh? And she never felt hunger, at least in the way most people do. She only knew she needed to eat when she started getting a headache.
My mother in law is quite like this. She will decide how much food looks like a normal amount of food. That might mean one night she consumes 800 calories for dinner and the next 200. She has no concept of how many calories are in things or what should be satiating and what shouldn't be.
If anything is bugging her digestion, she'll just decide to not eat - perhaps for a day or two.
She eats, her words, "because it's time to eat." Not because she is hungry. She rarely gets hungry. I am completely envious.
Most of the weight loss journey I was hungry and wondering when I could eat next and what could I eat. I would try all sorts of tricks to keep full, but I would still get hungry - low carbing it too. If I weren't low carbing it? I would be RAVENOUS all the time.
So, she can't understand how I just "don't eat" to lose weight or, understand why I have to eat when I am starving at 4 pm and can't wait for dinner and have dinner before everyone else (my metabolism runs so that I'm hungry the first part of the day and not the last part of the day).
There is a reason I got fat and she did not.