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I know it sounds like common sense, but I think a lot of us grew up with parents that made us finish our food even if we weren’t hungry. So eating more than we needed was normalized, and it became difficult to just stop mid meal.

Yeah, seems obvious but when your entire childhood is filled with shame because "there are starving kids in Africa so finish your plate", it's not so simple. Or when you realize that eating is the basically the only joy you have in life, it's not so simple. Or when you have to take medications for your mental health and the side effects are that you over eat, it's not so simple. Or when you have no time to exercise bc both you and your wife have to work to afford anything in this stupid economy, it's not so simple.

You eat for hunger/appetite
I eat for dopamine
We are not the same

Quantity of food: weight. Quality of food: health. Remember you can still get diabetes being slim. Also I guess health can be quantity if you become morbidly obese.

Don't stop when you're full. Stop when you no longer feel hungry.

Fat people hate this one simple trick.

There are definitely high calorie low weight food out there that will make you exceed your calorie count without you feeling full.

Well also being young and probably somewhat active.

But it's a great habit to develop so you don't put on a pound every year like the western world tends to do.

I lost 120lbs and have managed to keep it off for almost three years now. I came to the same realization as OP. Problem is I don't have that thing, I can eat so goddamn much before I feel full that calorie counting will probably be a lifelong thing for me. Wish there was a pill or something to help because it's a case of constant self-control.

It's a depression-era holdover in the US.

So many people don't want to accept it really is calories in vs calories out. Yes, even if you have PCOS, or whatever the fuck else. If you are somehow a genetic anomaly that does not meet this rule, please donate yourself to science after you die.

Get the Lose it app, scan in what you eat and go for a damn walk. You'll drop.

And that was me thinking you should just continue stuffing your fat face even though you're no longer enjoying the experience.

I'm now starting to think that it's possible that OP's problem is actually more of a neurological one.

Artificial sweeteners and highly processed foods can shut off your "I'm full" safety valve.
Read the labels on the foods you eat, educate yourself.
Corporations want you to eat to excess, it's profitable.

I've read its also a cultural thing. As in, in China it's considered rude to finish your meal, as that means your host didn't provide enough food. Hence you always leave something left over. Contrary to that, in western cultures, it's considered rude to leave something of your meal, as that means you don't like the food.

I'm a 100 pound they who's always - always - had trouble eating past the full feeling.

Like to me. Eating 'one more bite' past being full is worse then going to the gym and putting 20 extra pounds on.

Exceptions happen for holidays where we graze all day on many different foods. Variety being the spice of life n all.

But if it's a 3 course meal. I'll eat until I'm full. Pack it away. And eat later.

All you can eat places are completely wasted on me.

Sometimes with North America potions I get meals out of a 20/40$ take out.

IMO it would have a lot to do with parents teaching their children to "finish their meal" even if they're full, you know, as if there's no such thing as refrigeration.

And yet he's right, most overweight people can't do this simple task.