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I'm not hungry, yet i eat when i see food. WHY?

JEDI

JEDI

Lifer
i walk into the kitchen to get a can of diet coke from the fridge.

i see 3 hotdogs left in the pack. i eat one hotdog.
and hr later, i decide to eat the other 2.

WHY? and how to stop myself besides having an empty fridge and buying enuf food a week at a time?
 
Bad habit. I had broken a habit of eating everytime I start to watch a show on TV. I stopped for a while, and picked up the habit again.

It's an addiction like anything else. I am currently gaining weight that I've lost in the past few months because I can't help myself. Fucking PITA.
 
Typically, it's because you're 1) bored, 2) being compulsive. Why do you need to eat it? You ask us like it's something you can't change. You need to ask yourself if you need it or should eat it. If you have a big problem with that, you can restrict yourself to only eating 3 meals per day. That way you get into the habit of not eating a bunch of junk when you're not hungry.
 
When I first started taking thyroid medicine my appetite skyrocketed and I found myself eating stuff when I wasn't paying attention. It went back down to it's normal subdued self after a while though.
 
It takes a conscious effort sometimes to control your eating.

Just like many people eat well beyond satiated (quite frequently stuffing themselves), and some dogs will gorge themselves to obesity if food is always available; ideally, a well-trained individual will only eat what is physically necessary, regardless of what is available. Sometimes no amount of training (on the part of others training an individual) will correct this behavior, as it's a very strange balance of physiological and mental reactions.

In natural life, food is rarely guaranteed to be available 24/7; the natural instinct is to eat whatever you can, whenever you come across it - or to at least grab it and horde it and eat it once actually hungry.

[you might have already knew this, I think I felt like ramblin' 😛]

In short, if you struggle with it, you have the unique ability as a human to train yourself to NOT do it. Whenever you find yourself about to do such, and you realize you are not hungry, invest the effort to stash it back away, mentally/physically slap yourself, and walk away with your head held low in shame. Throwing a few "bad boy!'s" in there might help complete the scene. 😉
But honestly, the only way to stop is to tell yourself to stop whenever you catch yourself in the act.
 
Because you are a stupid animal with a brain that evolved to deal with a world of scarce resources. Your dumb animal brain can't adjust the world of abundance humans have created. If it makes you feel better the other 6 billion of us are in the same boat.
 
I think its kind of instinct. Cavemen I'd figure had to eat food while it was available since it wasn't store able but now food is way too available .

I avoid buying a lot of food for my apartment . And its a lot of willpower to stop eating free food at work
 
Ive found a good way to break a habit is to put a rubber band on my wrist or arm. When i do something, in your instance, start eating that second hot dog, pop that rubber band good. Be consistent, and make it hurt. Will cure a habit real quick


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the DRIZZLE said:
Because you are a stupid animal with a brain that evolved to deal with a world of scarce resources. Your dumb animal brain can't adjust the world of abundance humans have created. If it makes you feel better the other 6 billion of us are in the same boat.
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Not. My wife and kid don't have this problem. She could have 3 peas on a plate and leave 1. I'm in the same boat as the OP.

Comfort associated with food, learned early I would expect.

My solution was for it not to be around. Difficult with a wife and kid. More cardio for me.
 
highland145 said:
Not. My wife and kid don't have this problem. She could have 3 peas on a plate and leave 1. I'm in the same boat as the OP.

Comfort associated with food, learned early I would expect.

My solution was for it not to be around. Difficult with a wife and kid. More cardio for me.
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It's natural to the same degree it is in other species. Some animals, given "unlimited" and constant access to food, will gorge themselves fat. Others, even of the same species and in the exact same situation, will moderate and pace themselves quite naturally.

You can have dogs that, if healthy (as is, no temporary/permanent illness), will eat everything given to them at each meal and not even understand that their weight is an issue. Yet other dogs will quickly adjust and only eat how much they want/need at any given time, and will end up grazing (and we humans adjust to that by filling the bowl when needed, not at set times); such dogs usually are much thinner (healthy weight). It thus takes a conscious effort on OUR part to meter out food to pets that do have an issue with food, which is strange when you think about it.

Honestly, I can't really say why this phenomenon is such.
It makes sense it's sort of an instinct, in that you should eat what is available now, and get as much as you can stomach, because you cannot guarantee what lies around the corner tomorrow. The fatties, as long as they have access to a water supply, will survive longer if their is a sudden disappearance in food. That can be a good survival tactic... if food isn't guaranteed to be accessible.

But many of us, either consciously or not, adjust and our brain gets into a very strange state for an animal: a reliance on promises and habits, where our brain thoroughly believes we'll be able to have food whenever we need it, without worries. But it results in a good equilibrium, and we don't even have to exert much effort to ensure food is actually on hand. No hunting, only minimal-effort gathering (though funded through paid slavery).
 
In addition to what the others said, some of it might also be the type of food you're eating. If you're eating a lot more sugars and/or complex carbs than fat+protein, the insulin response might be tricking you into craving more food, then you give into the craving.

Even the fix to that is mental...gotta will yourself to moderate your carbs or get more calories from proteins/fats. Then you might not crave food as much when you see it.
 
Sometimes, I ask myself "Am I hungy?"

Doign that can often make me walk away.

Also, do you have any low calorie alternitives? Strawberies, cucumbers, fruit/vegetables in general? A whole cucumber is 6 calories.

Also, forcing one's self to eat smaller meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner means that a small late night snack is not that bad. Plain popcorn, even in larger quatities is pretty healthy if you don't put anything on it.
 
surfsatwerk said:
Use can always start using appetite suppressants like nicotine, caffeine, etc...
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Not sure it helps, he's not eating food because he's hungry. It's an addiction. I'm the same way. Which is why I love the lean gains method of intermittent fasting. Because of my lack of control, I'm a bit more extreme on it with a smaller eating window, as few as 3 hours and as much as 5. It's great because it's hard to overeat, and I've tried. I also made the rule that my first meal must be veggies so that there's less room for junk food. Having adapted to the fasting period, I never feel hungry during the day and surprisingly, I haven't lost muscle mass.
 
darkxshade said:
Not sure it helps, he's not eating food because he's hungry. It's an addiction. I'm the same way. Which is why I love the lean gains method of intermittent fasting. Because of my lack of control, I'm a bit more extreme on it with a smaller eating window, as few as 3 hours and as much as 5. It's great because it's hard to overeat, and I've tried. I also made the rule that my first meal must be veggies so that there's less room for junk food. Having adapted to the fasting period, I never feel hungry during the day and surprisingly, I haven't lost muscle mass.
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Let's step away from the addiction comment and handle this like we're rational people. Chewing nicotine gum or drinking coffee is a good way to suppress his appetite and give him a non-caloric activity to replace eating.
 
Gum has calories too, just because it's not on the nutrition facts doesn't mean it isn't there. I've gone through packs of gum a day like the Orbits, Stride, or what have you. One small piece doesn't cut it, I chew 2 at a time and before you know it, you've chewed through 100+ cals. It's an expensive habit and I've pretty much stopped it as well cuz it hasn't done me any good really since you end up chewing the gum and eating the food you have. It makes you gassy as well. Each piece is roughly 3-4 calories so they round to 0 on the packaging. And coffee at night... the time when people usually tend to snack on junk food. I'd like to sleep too so no thanks. I've tried a lot of methods, none of which has worked as effectively as IF.
 
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I am the same way sometimes. Usually just on the weekends when I am bored. I hate that I do it but its hard to stop.
 
I put a kettlebell in the kitchen. Before I eat anything, minimum 30 swings. If I'm still hungry, I can eat. I've started avoiding the kitchen.
 
I've recently gotten back into fitness and getting myself back into shape, started about 4 weeks ago. Aside from going to the gym again I've totally changed my diet and my eating habits and biggest thing that's kept me on track is using that MyFitnessPal app on my phone. I record and weigh/measure everything I eat and it's helped me stop the unnecessary and indulgent snacking because I know exactly where I'm at for the day and how to budget my meals. It helped me stop eating mindlessly because now I'm focused on my diet.
 
darkxshade said:
Gum has calories too, just because it's not on the nutrition facts doesn't mean it isn't there. I've gone through packs of gum a day like the Orbits, Stride, or what have you. One small piece doesn't cut it, I chew 2 at a time and before you know it, you've chewed through 100+ cals. It's an expensive habit and I've pretty much stopped it as well cuz it hasn't done me any good really since you end up chewing the gum and eating the food you have. It makes you gassy as well. Each piece is roughly 3-4 calories so they round to 0 on the packaging. And coffee at night... the time when people usually tend to snack on junk food. I'd like to sleep too so no thanks. I've tried a lot of methods, none of which has worked as effectively as IF.
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Chewing burns a minimal amount of calories though. As long as you chew those 1 or 2 pieces of gum for 30 mins to an hour, you basically negate the calories.
 
darkxshade said:
Gum has calories too, just because it's not on the nutrition facts doesn't mean it isn't there. I've gone through packs of gum a day like the Orbits, Stride, or what have you. One small piece doesn't cut it, I chew 2 at a time and before you know it, you've chewed through 100+ cals. It's an expensive habit and I've pretty much stopped it as well cuz it hasn't done me any good really since you end up chewing the gum and eating the food you have. It makes you gassy as well. Each piece is roughly 3-4 calories so they round to 0 on the packaging. And coffee at night... the time when people usually tend to snack on junk food. I'd like to sleep too so no thanks. I've tried a lot of methods, none of which has worked as effectively as IF.
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Trident White clearly states 5 calories per 2 piece serving.

Also, if you chew for a decent length of time, you probably burn those 5 calories as well.
 
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