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    The secret is to be incredibly neurodivergent and unlock the secrets to extreme hyperfixation. The more you lose track of time, the better, as this is also the threshold where hunger ceases to exist.

    -source, one incredibly autistic fuck (me)

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    fwiw that’s actually why I think I’m healthier when I have those meal replacement shakes in the house somewhere. People always are like “ew why would you replace meals with that?”. But they actually don’t. They replace NOT having meals. Because when I have that “one more thing to do”, if don’t eat something super low effort right when I think about it, I’m just gonna power through and forget again.

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    If I could, I’d never have to eat again. I hate having to eat all the time. Hunger always throws you off what you’re doing. Sure, I love delicious food, but giving it up and never having to think about “what am I going to eat today, when am I going to cook it…”? Anytime.

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      That is what led me to about a year of Soylent and pho. I couldn’t be bothered to cook for myself often, I was single, had a long commute, worked near a pho restaurant. So I drank a Soylent for breakfast and lunch then had a large beef and brisket pho every day.

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    I grew up glued to my PS1/PS2 playing until I was dehydrated with a headache and my eyes burning.

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    One thing that gets me about TV and movies is when people dramatically storm away from the dinner table. I don’t think I’ve EVER seen anybody IRL stop eating and leave just because they were mad. But forgetting to eat is on a whole other level. It’s like oops, I forgot all about breathing in and out - better write that on a Post-It.

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    The secret is to smoke weed every day. Once you’ve built up a sizable tolerance, the only time you’ll get hungry is when you have cannabis in your system. Trust me, it works.

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    It helps when you realize you won’t make it to retirement age with enough dough and also can’t afford anything even now. Hope this helps!

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    It varies so much from day to day, if I even notice that I skipped a meal (not breakfast, mkay? I literally can’t skip breakfast). Sometimes I’m in the zone and don’t notice that lunch time was like 4 hours ago. Other days I can get really irritated that I haven’t had lunch yet and it’s another hour until I’m supposed to take that lunch break.

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    No one wants to hear it, I suspect, but eating very low carb is how this is done.

    No sugar and no grains for one month and the cravings are gone. You can easily go 48 hours on water alone, if you need or want to.

    What nearly everyone calls hunger is actually cravings for carbs. True hunger is painful and consumes every thought. Likely no one you’ve ever met has been truly hungry.

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      I don’t think there is a single fix for this. My diet is pretty carb heavy and I forget meals all the time. You just get focused on something and it’s…why am I lightheaded?…oh yeah. Food in the last 12 hours might have been nice.

      Background…it’s not just me but our genetics are bonkers. There are four other people in my family 35-75 years old and 5.5-6ft tall. Not a single one of us is over 130 pounds. We all struggle to gain weight. Doesn’t matter what we eat…good food or absolute garbage. Absolute garbage has other consequences…like also feeling like garbage but weight gain isn’t one of them. Cravings for anything are rare…drove my college roommate nuts that I could have candy around for like 6+ months.

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        You have a better tolerance for carbs then most people. However, this meme is about people basically being addicted to carbs and fighting their food cravings when they burn through the 5g of glucose in the blood (because the body stores fat, not carbs). Carbs are the reason people are on the hangry roller coaster, always thinking about the next meal like it’s an emergency

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      You probably think no one wants to hear it when they disagree, but more likely what works for you doesn’t work for everyone. As the person replying to you exemplified. There isn’t a one trick for everyone in these kinda of things, and anyone who claims there is is either ignorant or scamming.

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        Or most people haven’t tried it and are incredulous that it works and can’t imagine life without the food noise and cravings

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          Easy way to prove it; show us the peer reviewed scientific studies. There’s been times when almost everyone has been wrong, and what proved it was the scientific method.

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            I’m not familiar with much research on food noise as a topic by itself.

            However you may find this paper on the power of sugar addiction in rats Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward - 2007

            Our findings clearly demonstrate that intense sweetness can surpass cocaine reward, even in drug-sensitized and -addicted individuals. We speculate that the addictive potential of intense sweetness results from an inborn hypersensitivity to sweet tastants. In most mammals, including rats and humans, sweet receptors evolved in ancestral environments poor in sugars and are thus not adapted to high concentrations of sweet tastants. The supranormal stimulation of these receptors by sugar-rich diets, such as those now widely available in modern societies, would generate a supranormal reward signal in the brain, with the potential to override self-control mechanisms and thus to lead to addiction.

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              An interesting flaw with the sugar studies with rats is that it required limiting the amount of sugar available. They did act like addicts when the sugar was presented to them intermittently then taken away, but when they had full free access to it, they no longer binged on it and didn’t have addictive traits. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4361030/#%3A~%3Atext=Rats+with+ad+libitum+access%2Cand+by+avidity+for+alcohol.

              Because of this, some suggest the studies are actually arguments against hyper limited diets, instead of in support. Part of an argument on that is that it’s harder for us keep up something we dislike for a long period of time, whereas making smaller changes we can adapt to keeps our enjoyment and can still change behavior over time.

              Anecdotal: I stopped drinking soda, cut down on sweets and juice etc a while ago(10-15 years?). I still have sweets from time to time, but the general feeling is I feel many things are too sweet, and I prefer lighter sweetness. I still like it somewhat, but soda tastes like syrup, and I generally just feel like less, but I don’t exclude it completely or anything.

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                Its interesting you bring up the limitation, it seems that most of the “calorie reduced” food studies on animals are actually intermittent fasting studies

                Glad to see you have had success giving up soda!

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    Worse yet, there are people who don’t eat breakfast. Do they photosynthesize their food instead?

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      What’s even worse is people who don’t understand that we are a hunter-gatherers. Our ancestor’s first meal came much later in the day and we have evolved as such. Not eating a lot for breakfast is extremely comon and burned in our DNA. Don’t know where you are going with this.

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      I don’t. I feel it takes a few hours (4-5) for my body to wake up enough to feel hunger, and if I force myself to eat breakfast I feel queasy. So I just eat black coffee and move on.

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        So I just eat black coffee and move on.

        Great, now I have this mental image of you waking up late, going “NO TIME TO WAIT FOR THE KETTLE!” and just eating spoonfuls of instant coffee straight from the jar before running out of the house.

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        Same, a large breakfast makes me feel queasy too. I never met another person like this. I usually don’t eat until noon.

        But, 10AM and later, I’m not queasy.

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        This. I really only eat a small breakfast because I have to for meds, but if it weren’t for that I’d totally be fine with one big meal a day (turns out to be dinner most of the time) and perhaps one apple or sth. late at night.

        This forced 3-meal system is so weird and inconvenient.

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          It all revolves around work… eat before work, at your please-take-the-smallest-amount-of-time-mandated-so-we-don’t-get-sued mid-day or mid-shift break, and after work.

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            That’s just because we made it like that though for some weird cultural reason (as well as propaganda), there’s zero reason why an office worker or train conductor couldn’t eat multiple small amounts of fruits and veggies over the day, or just none at all until home. Even the idea of the “importance of breakfast” literally came from Kelloggs trying to convince everyone to eat cereal in the morning 60(?) years ago to build themselves somewhat of a ‘cultural anchor’. I mean, we could’ve also gone the way to chop each workday in 2-hour chunks and eat a bite between all of them. Good thing nobody told Nestle they could’ve made people buy more food that way.

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      I literally feel sick if I eat breakfast. Only after a couple hours do I get hungry. I only really eat breakfast if I know I am going to be physically active and will need the energy like if I went cycling or hiking.

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      Used to abstain from eating breakfast sometimes when I was younger. Now I’ll likely feel nauseous if I do.

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      There’s no rhyme or reason to it, but some mornings a black coffee is all I seem to want/need which is kinda negative calories

      Other mornings I’ll polish the plate of a large full English and will perish if I don’t

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    I don’t get hungry often, at least not the way I think normal people do. I usually go from ‘fine’ to ‘more than mildly queasy’ in a couple minutes, then I have to rush to find something to throw in my stomach. It’s like flipping a light switch. This usually only happens when I have some project I’m focusing on.

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      don’t want to armchair diagnose, but i had the exact same thing and prozac gave me the ability to feel hungry again. I used to feel exactly how you would.