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A community for weight-loss, primarily by means of inducing a caloric deficit.
“Hunger is the best sauce in the world,” wrote Miguel de Cervantes in Part II, Chapter V, of Don Quixote, (1615).
I don't think regularly feeling hunger is very desirable or necessary, let alone sustainable. It takes a long time to lose weight and being miserable makes it less likely you'll see it through. Being a little hungry just as the meal is being served, fine. Living in a frequent or constant state of hunger is not a successful path to healthy and sustainable weight loss.
The best is when you have something that keeps you from noticing you are hungry like geeking out over something.
It's also one benefit of being super busy at work. When I'm teaching (college) I often don't get a chance to eat lunch until maybe around 2:30-4pm some days and I usually don't even notice I'm hungry and until I stop for a minute.
For me what was valuable is to recognize that there is a difference between having appetite for something, being hungry and “almost starving”.
So what is the bodily need and what is the emotional need / craving
I think that for me it is sometimes good to feel proper hunger because I often just eat so frequently that I won't feel it for a long time. Allowing myself to feel hunger is then a healthy thing because it allows me to redistinguish between actual hunger and my stomach just having more room. I wouldn't want it on a regular basis though.