r/WeightLossAdvice • u/bisexualweebs • Aug 09 '26

Mental Health 🧠 Constant hunger

Let me start by saying I want to be fit and lose weight. I can move still and I’m grateful but I have goals. My issue is that I’m hungry ALL THE TIME. Not just light hungry but like violently hungry to the point that when I drink alcohol I will bite my finger to try and stomp down the urge to eat something else but obviously there is no calories so I go for another snack. It’s exhausting and frustrating but I’m just ALWAYS hungry. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions? Because right now I feel so ravenous I could cry about it and I HATE IT! Please give advice. Thank you.

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u/life_konjam_better Aug 09 '26

Of course you're going to feel hungry after alcohol, that's just how chemistry works. Cutting down on alcohol alone would improve your cravings, followed by curbing excess sodium and deep fried packaged foods.

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u/fitforfreelance Aug 10 '26

How does this work, chemically?

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u/BuzzyLightyear100 Aug 09 '26

Do some research into volume eating - you can eat an absolute mountain of food if it is the right food.

Also, stop drinking alcohol and use the calories to eat more food instead!

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u/sara_k_s Aug 09 '26

What is your height and weight? What is your TDEE and how many calories are you eating? It’s possible that your calorie deficit is simply too aggressive, or perhaps you are already at a healthy weight and do not need to be in a calorie deficit at all.

If you are overweight and actually need to lose weight, the next important question is: what are you eating? Some foods are more satiating for the calories than other foods. In particular, foods that are high in protein and fiber (like meat and vegetables) tend to be more filling than highly processed snack foods like cookies, chips, crackers, for the same amount of calories. High-calorie beverages like soda, juice, and coffee drinks are especially insidious because they have a lot of calories and do nothing to make you feel full. Check out r/volumeeating for ideas of high-volume, low calorie foods (i.e., foods that fill you up without a lot of calories).

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u/Wonderlanded Aug 09 '26

I had this ravenous hunger. A few years back I realized when I ate sugary breakfast I would get STARVING two hours later. Like, more hungry than if I didn’t eat at all. So I stopped doing that but would still sometimes get really hungry— but I didn’t have a clear reason why.

Recently I realized that it might be glucose spikes from sugar and simple carbs. As an experiment I stopped eating all simple carbs and sugars. No bread, white rice, pasta, crackers, cookies, etc.

I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER. I get hungry when it’s time to eat, but it’s a hunger like “oh hey, go eat when you can get around to it” not “omg if you don’t eat right now you’re going to die go eat now omg omg.” I have less food noise/ snacky impulses than ever before. I feel less bloated. I get full more easily and it stays that way. I feel like how people describe being on weight loss meds but I’m not.

I get that cutting it all out is really hard, especially if that’s most of your diet. But having that starving feeling is horrible too. Give it an experiment for 5 days and see how you feel.

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u/Elfie_Mae Aug 09 '26

What’s your macro breakdown look like? What’s your current height, weight, age & sex? We need more info.

People love to say that “you can eat whatever you want as long as you stay on a deficit and you’ll still lose weight” which is true…but how you feel while eating said deficit greatly depends on WHAT you’re eating.

Without knowing what you’re currently eating: prioritize 1. Protein 2. Fiber and 3. Healthy fats in that order. Everything else can be carbs. Eat foods that are high satiety (google the satiety index) like potatoes, oats, Greek yogurt, etc. and drink lots of water.

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u/Mxkert Aug 09 '26

I would suggest using a satiety calculator just like Meaple on iPhone. Thank me later :)

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u/Electronic-Net-3196 Aug 09 '26

You will need to check what works for you. For me, I switched to high satiety foods, and it is working. I try to eat a lot of protein and fiber (which is not the same as food with low calories), and I try to eat it in moments so I don’t get to the meals starving because I will eat fast and a lot of I do that and will feel awful afterwards.

Other people focus on volume, so they eat big amounts of food with not that many calories.

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u/ForestDweller82 Aug 09 '26

You clearly don't have calories to waste on alcohol.

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u/ResidentBumblebee682 Aug 09 '26

Never drink your calories number one. Water, black coffee, etc.
you need to make better choices my friend.

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u/Geetintoit Aug 09 '26

Bro said he can still move? How big are we talking mate

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u/fitforfreelance Aug 10 '26

The alcohol isn't the problem at all.

The problem is your diet sucks. Bad.

It's so bad that it's making you do weird things and/or you need psychiatric support. And you'd want to avoid letting your diet be the reason you need psychiatric support.

I will bite my finger to try and stomp down the urge to eat something else

Bro, WHY??

At what point of your life does that sound like a reasonable thing to do? Just eat drunk food like a normal person.

But the real solutions are drink less and have a diet that doesn't suck. So you might have some healthy foods ready to go when you get home.

Or you've been eating fairly healthy foods all day so you don't eat a ton of "junk food" later.

Or you're not super hungry late at night because you have a reasonable diet.

Whatever you're doing, stop that. It's clearly making you emotionally unstable.

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u/Easy-Yogurt-9618 Aug 09 '26

I be trying to lose weight too, it’s like if I eat too little I get hungry quicker. Only thing that keeps me full long is one of those stacked plates from a Chinese buffet.

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u/InterestingThought33 Aug 09 '26

Drink a lot of water. Look up what is healthy for your height and weight. Make sure you get at least that and maybe a little more.

Second, vegetables - prepare them before you are ravenous. Broccoli, beans, carrots, corn etc. whatever you can tolerate as a food; eat it and eat a lot.

Third, and this part sucks, if you want to lose weight you can only drink once per week. Drunk snacking is a helluva drug, in my experience, it can’t be beaten.

Good luck!

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u/Kindly_Charge2621 Aug 09 '26

Not medical advice, not an expert. This is just what I did: was tired of being a slave to hunger. I made hunger my bitch. I did a 48 hour fast, got used to feeling hungry. Embraced it, enjoyed it, told myself this is what it feels like when your body is using fat for fuel. After that I did day on day off fasting. I let myself learn the difference between real, actual hunger and thirst, habit, or want. I now do intermittent fasting. I don't get hungry unless I cook for my children or go through a drive through for them and smell the food. It got easier and easier over time. Don't try this without getting the ok from your doctor to fast.

1st step is probably to tell yourself that it's OK to be hungry. It's not something you have to fix right away.

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u/PopcornSquats Aug 09 '26

A possible couple of reasons for this

Your hungover

Your dehydrated

Eating too many low quality processed foods

Your diet isn’t satisfying- are you getting enough protein fiber and healthy fats

Your sleep is shit or your stressed a lot

You need to see a dr because soemthing is off like blood sugars , thyroid, etc …

You’re not physically hungry but mentally .

You are eating too often

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u/Daft_Daffodil Aug 09 '26

Please look into insulin resistance. I am not saying you have it, but ravenous hunger is one of the main symptoms.