This is something that has always puzzled me. Some people say that you should eat so many calories or your body will go into starvation mode. But hunger is really the signal that our bodies need fuel. If we're providing that fuel when the signal comes, how can we be in starvation mode? Our body tells us it's hungry, so we eat, and it's no longer hungry. So why eat when you're not hungry? I have a very small appetite, and don't get hungry very often. When I do eat a meal, I eat maybe half of what a "normal" person does, and I'm full. At first I was trying to force myself to eat more, but it got tiring. So now I do what you did, I eat when I'm hungry, even if it means I end up with fewer calories in a day than most people! I think our bodies have the wisdom on how much it wants to eat, we just need to focus on WHAT to feed it. MHO of course.