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I think you have something there.  I believe I would eat less if I didn't 
have my husband to cook for.  He puts in a long hard day's work, whether at 
the office or on the ranch, and he likes his three meals a day.  And of 
course, I join him for breakfast and for dinner, lunch time, too when he's 
at home on the ranch.  If I ate only when I was hungry, it would be better. 
I would also eat less regularly.  Or if I didn't eat some of the things I 
love and ate only fruits and veggies.  Oh, well, I just have to eat more 
carefully.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "k s swigart" <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 2:24 PM
Subject: [RC] Not Hungry (was: losing weight...)


> Gloria Adams said:
>
> > Eventually, you will find (in desperation from hunger), in order to eat
> > more & not be hungry, you will pick the foods with lower fat as you
> > could eat more of them, get rid of hunger pain & still stay within your
> > calorie requirement.
>
> This whole discussion on weight has been interesting and I do not agree 
> with everything that everybody says; however, this one, I just cannot pass 
> up because it is based on a fallacy.  Most people do not eat because they 
> are hungry, and certainly not hungry enough for it to cause pain.
>
> People eat because everybody else is eating; people eat because they are 
> bored; people eat because they want something to do with their hands or 
> their mouths; people eat because the food tastes good; people eat because 
> the food is in front of them; people eat because it is meal time.
>
> In my experience, one great way to control your weight is simply (although 
> not necessarily easily) to follow the maxim, "If you're not hungry, don't 
> eat."  It is difficult to become consciously aware of the reasons that you 
> are eating, and that rarely ever do they have anything to do with being 
> hungry.  However, it is a good way to control your food intake.  Honestly 
> ask yourself, before every bite you take, "Am I doing this because I am 
> hungry?"  Chances are good, the answer is no.  And if the answer is no, 
> don't eat it.
>
> And if you do this, you don't have to keep a diary, you don't have to 
> follow fads, you don't have to count calories, you don't have to read 
> labels, and you don't have to do mathematical calculations based on 
> measurement in metric (which you aren't comfortable with anyway):).
>
> We don't eat chocolate (or whatever your favorite food) because we are 
> hungry, we eat chocolate because we like the way it tastes.  And we keep 
> eating it, long after it could provide the calories to satisfy any hunger 
> (if the hunger even existed in the first place), because the taste is 
> pleasant but fleeting, so to get it back you have to eat some more 
> (despite the fact that persisting with it will serve no purpose in 
> satisfying hunger and may actually make you feel unpleasantly "stuffed").
>
> If, after you stop eating for all the other reasons that people eat and 
> only eat when you are hungry and you still find yourself "overweight," 
> THEN you can start concerning yourself over doing the math and obsessing 
> about every calorie you eat and if you are doing enough work to use them.
>
> But make no mistake, you are rare duck indeed if the only reason you eat 
> is to satisfy hunger, and if you are normal American, you can probably 
> count on your hands the number of times that you have been hungry enough 
> for it to be painful.
>
> I say this after having just eaten too big of a salad for lunch, and I 
> will be unpleasantly over full for the rest of the afternoon.  I didn't 
> eat it because I was hungry.  I ate it because I went out for lunch to 
> celebrate a birthday with a group of friends, and it was there.
>
> Controlling your intake is not about learning how to control your hunger 
> or to not eat when you are hungry but rather learning hot to not eat when 
> you are not hungry.
>
> kat
> Orange County, Calif.
>
> p.s.  It is also true that exercise is an appetite suppressant (just ask 
> your horse), so the best time to eat, if you want to control your intake, 
> is IMMEDIATELY post exercise.  If you eat then, you won't want to eat very 
> much (because you won't be very hungry), but it will put something in your 
> stomach for later, when the effects of exercise as an appetite suppressant 
> have worn off, and the caloric requirement of the exercise would otherwise 
> make you hungry.
>
>
>
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