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My hunger response is all messed up; exceedingly slow to satiation, hungry almost immediately after. I'm basically always hungry even sometimes getting hunger pangs that are physically painful and come with nausea; not eating for even around like 12-16 hours would sometimes cause me to gag and to feel like I needed to throw up. Changing some dietary things has helped, but I'm still almost always hungry and never stay full long.
Even as little as a year ago, I could put away a large pizza, some ice cream, a meal from McD's, and more in one day and still be hungry. I probably still could if not for ending up needing to cut gluten (one of the things that seems to have helped). By BMI I'm right on the border between overweight and obese and dropping (I will probably be just 'overweight' in mid-Feb 2025 or so).
It's agonizing being hungry constantly. I know I don't need to eat. But my body is screaming at me it wants to eat and it's infuriating.
Food is the only physical addiction that you can't quit for life or it will kill you. You don't need beer or cocaine or meth to live, you can live a full happy life without any of those. You can't live without food.
We are also fighting decades of food science working non stop to make the cheapest shittiest food possible.
If I could quit it cold turkey I would.
But I can't, and it sucks
Says food is not satiating, always hungry -> proceeds to say they could keep eating unhealthy processed foods designed to make you crave more..
You clearly missed the point above where I wrote "ending up needing to cut gluten" which kinda precludes eating most of the things on that list.
These days, except for once a week, I am eating: oatmeal, brown rice (regionally-sourced), some meat (chicken, fish, or pork in order of frequency) I've cooked, some veg (much of which I grow myself) I've cooked, and some sauce I've (at least mostly -- I'm not brewing my own soy sauce) made, and often a bit of cheese. Dessert, when I have it, is a handful of chocolate chips. I am still almost always hungry. Once a week, I eat sushi or something similar and have an ice cream.
Edit: I also feel compelled to note I would only let myself eat like that (the Pizza, burgers, etc.) once every week or two, lest someone think that was my daily life.