Tue, Jun-18-02, 22:13
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Plan: Atkins-ish, post-WLS
Stats: 408.0/288.0/168.0
BF:
Progress: 50%
Location: Southern Colorado, USA
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It's a very common - but temporary - symptom of transitioning to LC.
Your body is going through a LOT of changes. In this case (and this is partly speculation on my part) you body is shifting from a situation where the carb-induced cravings were enough (more than enough) to sustain an appetite level necessary to get you to eat enough. So your body lost the habit of making you hunger in response to real needs - it didn't need to because it seldom got the chance.
But now, your body is having to relearn how to recognize the clues of a real need for fuel and to let you know about it. That takes a while, but it does happen.
In the meantime, I highly recommend tracking your calorie intake closely and making sure that you get some minimum level of calories whether you are hungry or not. In your case I would say an absolute minumum of 1500 calories and a target of about 2000 calories.
If you don't do this, you risk sending your body into starvation mode where it will do everything it can to minimize your energy expenditures.
In my first couple of weeks I would frequently find that I had only eaten 600 calories all day and I would be anything but hungry. So I would force myself to eat three or four hundred calories right before bedtime just to get about 1000 calories.
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