hunger is real and it’s a real issue. Not the type of hunger where you want to eat tasty food, physical “body doesn’t get enough calories” hunger.
Listen to accounts of people who actually starved for months, like those lost in the wilderness, bodybuilders in extreme cutting sessions, or from the Minnesota Starvation experiment. They describe how they stopped caring about anything but food to an extreme degree, even sex drive. That’s what serious hunger can do to you. It can make you depressed and uninhibited and directly lower your QOL and intelligence. At that just accepting fat might seem like the sensible option.
Fortunately you don’t have to get this type of hungry even when losing weight, unless you have a hormonal issue. You can be 15% body fat and not physically “hungry”, even 10% if you have good genetics or take pills. This is why CICO, while absolutely true, is generally bad advice, and eating whole foods and weightlifting, while not guaranteed to cause weight loss unless CICO, is strongly recommended.
Listen to accounts of people who actually starved for months, like those lost in the wilderness, bodybuilders in extreme cutting sessions, or from the Minnesota Starvation experiment. They describe how they stopped caring about anything but food to an extreme degree, even sex drive. That’s what serious hunger can do to you. It can make you depressed and uninhibited and directly lower your QOL and intelligence. At that just accepting fat might seem like the sensible option.
Fortunately you don’t have to get this type of hungry even when losing weight, unless you have a hormonal issue. You can be 15% body fat and not physically “hungry”, even 10% if you have good genetics or take pills. This is why CICO, while absolutely true, is generally bad advice, and eating whole foods and weightlifting, while not guaranteed to cause weight loss unless CICO, is strongly recommended.