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What does being in a calorie deficit feel like?
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You're hungry.
To add to that, if the calorie deficit is small enough, the hunger feeling will be reduced over time as your body adjusts to the new calorie intake, but will always be there until the body is a weight that matches the calorie intake.
Example: Someone who is overweight eating the calories for their target weight will have a calorie deficit that becomes less of a deficit until they reach that target weight and at that point they should no longer feel hungry except when they actually need to eat to maintain weight. Obviously other factors can create a feeling of hunger when the body isn't actually sending the hunger signals or people wouldn't be overweight.
As someone on semaglutide therapy, I can share that a large calorie deficit hits you in the wills to live. At some point even just eating feels like a stop at the gas station to fuel up, and it hardly matters whether it's 87 or 95 octane. Hell, rancid fry oil would even work. At some point, you stop caring whether you eat because it feels like another chore.
Eventually your metabolism syncs up again with your energy demand and you start getting interested in food, except you're way more selective about how you're (edit: ~~spending~~) acquiring those calories. I almost can't abide by junk food, fast food, or breaded fried crap anymore. But neither do I want salad or vegetables because they're "fluffy." Too much volume, not enough calories. I want about 6 or 10 forks full of food, and then that's it. And it'd best taste good, or I can't be bothered. Restaurants easily stop looking like a good deal.
Anyway that's a digest of my diary for the last 22 months. Do with the info as you will.
Same!
This isn't correct. Even when someone who has lost weight hits caloric balance they stay hungry. Fat cells produce hunger signals when it's at lower than it's previous stored energy levels.
It takes several years for fat cells to adapt to the new normal and not try to reach their previous levels.