This is very good news for people who struggle with hunger.
It’s been 6 years that I lost 80 pounds and have gained 15 back in that time. Every day is a living hell on earth in struggling with hunger. It **never** goes away. Not even when I sleep because my dreams are filled with food.
If there is food and hunger issues in heaven I am leaving. Hell couldn’t be worse.
I am sorry to inform you that you will now see posts from the FR fat cops saying it is all your fault and/or that you are just lazy and/or stupid and you should stop whining about it and that it is simply a matter of eating less and/or doing more.
Unless of course I just scared them off.
You were probably eating much less than you should. You probably lost a lot of muscle. The scale won’t tell you that.
You know it is strange that doctors don't tell cancer patients to ignore the pain and it will go away.
Have you looked into the new combo of Phentermine and topamax? I used the old Phen-Fen back i the day and for the first time I my life I did not get hungry and could ignore food.
The only other thing that works for me and it is Atkins, I don't get hungry nut you do miss a lot of foods and that leads to craving even tho you are not really hungry. Phen-Fen was the absolute best, felt great and lost 50+ pounds in a couple monts.
I have the same problem.
Constant hunger, constantly thinking about food. I have been this way my entire life. Very frustrating.
I did Atkins about 8 years ago. It worked well. It lessened my hunger. But only kept it up for about 6 months. It is soooo hard taking almost all carbs out of my diet. I keep telling myself to start....darn it. I wish I could be like a normal person and eat normally and stay at a good weight.
“It’s been 6 years that I lost 80 pounds and have gained 15 back in that time. Every day is a living hell on earth in struggling with hunger. It **never** goes away. Not even when I sleep because my dreams are filled with food.
“If there is food and hunger issues in heaven I am leaving. Hell couldn’t be worse.
“Then in my mid-thirties I became hypothyroid. Yeah, when I was 42 the thyroid problem was fixed but since then weight control and hunger has been a living hell.”
Could it be that you’re taking too much of whatever thyroid hormone replacement therapy? Maybe the dose can be adjusted. Have you seen an endocrinologist? Talk to your doc.
I feel your pain. I have been overweight for most of my adult life. About 10 years ago, I lost a lot of weight by following a 1500 calorie a day diet and walking about an hour almost every day.
The result? I was depressed and had trouble controlling my tongue. Consequently, I said some really hurtful things to people I love, and was generally going nuts. I was constantly hungry and went to bed every night listening to my stomach growl. And I was still in the overweight range according to the charts! I also developed anemia.
Of course, this could not go on forever, and I regained all the weight I had lost plus a little more. Now, if I even think about a diet, I get depressed and I rarely can last more than a day or two with restricted eating. Yes, I’ve tried them all. Cutting carbs drastically produced less hunger, but it is almost impossible to stick to in the long term (like all diets).
I would encourage you to find a copy of an old book, The Dieter’s Dilemma: Eating Less and Weighing More, and I would also encourage you to look at the Health at Every Size option. You will weigh more, but you just might be healthier in the long run. Also, read some of the articles at this site http://www.junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/
BTW, the latest study to stun conventional wisdom showed that losing weight did not produce any benefits to type 2 diabetics in terms of cardiovascular events. It did lower their numbers, but that’s all. Check out the books by Nortin Hadler, MD.