Hi Ira:
FAIW
Losing 40 lbs is a great accomplishment. I am not a
nutritionist, I just apply common sense to the
weight-loss problem.
Everybody knows that being overweight puts severe limitations
on our lifestyle and has a deleterious effect on our health.
There is not a single overweight person who would not prefer
to be slim and trim. As I said in my post, if it did not hurt,
if it were easy to lose weight, there would be no overweight
persons in the world.
No, it would not make sense to be hungry "all the time". One
certainly should not be hungry for some time after a meal. I
believe it is very important to set regular mealtimes and
never to eat between these mealtimes. Of course, that means we
will be good and hungry when the next mealtime comes around.
All I am saying is, we are not going to lose weight when we
are satiated with food and our body has no need to burn our
own fat. We only lose weight during those times when we are
hungry. Hunger is the alarm bell that our body has run out of
glucose and is forced to burn our fat.
Exercise is also very helpful and healthy. However, if you
just sit still and eat less calories than your body burns, you
are guaranteed to lose weight, too. Just think of emaciated
people in POW camps: They had no exercise but lost weight
until they were skeletons.
The going will get harder and harder as you approach your BMI
of 25 because your body will get smaller and will burn fewer
calories. Our body is just a heat-engine that runs on food
calories. You will be immensely happy and you will feel in
full control of your life again. Good luck.
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Walter - "A I Harkness" <aiharkness@worldnet.att.net> wrote in
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> Sorry, if you want to lose weight you have to be hungry. You
> will not lose weight if you are not hungry.
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> I missed the original post. Does the advice above
> intend to state
that
> you must be hungry all the time if you are going to
> lose weight?
>
> I mentioned a little about myself in an earlier
> post, but I should
add
> here that I was initially a little over 100 pounds above
> what I believe
should
> be normal body weight for my height and build. This was in
> January this
year.
> I've now lost almost 40 pounds at a steady rate of
> approximately 1.4 to
1.6
> pounds per week by watching my portion sizes and trying to
> keep my daily calories at around 2000 per day. I had set my
> goal at 1 pound per week,
not
> wanting to suffer too much, but also figuring I should set
> the goal at
something
> I thought I could meet.
>
> Anyway, I'm losing weight and I'm not suffering. I
> do start
getting
> hungry before regular meal times, and real hungry when I go
> beyond regular
meal
> time before I eat, but I'm not hungry all the time, and I'm
> genuinely not suffering. Maybe this will change,
> particularly the last 10, 20 or 30
pounds,
> so we'll see.
>
> I can agree if the advice is that you are going to
> get hungry when losing weight, but then I still got
> hungry, too, when I was eating enough
for
> three people. In my experience, a person should get hungry
> before the
next meal
> time, but it is possible to lose weight without feeling
> hungry all the
time.
> For someone like me who just simply ate too much, the
> problem is finding
the
> will power to fight the food habit. I agree that fighting
> the habit
requires a
> lifestyle change. No "diet" will be successful in the end.
>
> Just my opinion.
>
> - Ira