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Originally Posted by livelaughlovesunshin
Right..But I am following Weight Watchers and most of what I have read says that if you keep falling below your daily points, weight loss will stall.
... a point or two isn't likely to make much if any difference at all, and "starvation mode" and other diet-triggered metabolic slowing doesn't appear to be a universal experience. Not everyone experiences it, and even those who do generally have experienced it as a result of YEARS of crash dieting and vlcd's (very low calorie diets), NOT by coming in a few or even a few hundred calories short occasionally (and each point is only about 30 calories, so you're not even talking about 100 calories difference).
That being said, some of us have notoriously poor hunger cues. If I'm eating very low-carb, I never feel "hungry" as I'm used to feeling it. My first symptom is usually a headache (which I don't immediately register as hunger), then irritability (which I attribute to the headache) and then more irritability (which can sometimes seem like the people around me deciding to be jerks) and finally (a symptom I do recognize) feeling light-headed, dizzy, and about to pass out (and if I don't eat, I WILL pass out, and have done so).
With high-carb eating, I'm hungry constantly. The more carbs I eat (especially high-glycemic carbs) the hungrier I get. And during PMS/TOM, no matter what I eat or don't eatat, I feel ravenous and starved 24/7 (for up to 10 days).
So for me, hunger is a lousy determiner of whether or not and how much I should eat. I have go by portion-control.
The only way you can determine what YOUR response to your food plan and deviations from that plan, is to experiment. Your body isn't so sensitive that experimentation is going prevent you permanently from losing. You just have to experiment to see what works for you, and what doesn't.