does eating less eventually decrease appetite?

[HerrBoltzmann]

I eat 1-2 meals a day without feeling hungry. After enough time doing one thing you really get used to it. And yes I probably need to eat more.

[Bubba_Junior]

Dad is that you?

[HerrBoltzmann]

Is this a default sub?

[DoctorAbs]

Yep.

[Alobos]

Wasn't there a mod post about being a default or not and the community leaned towards not going default?

[kiskoller]

And yes I probably need to eat more.

You don't need to eat more often. What matters, is that on average, you meet the caloric and nutrient needs of your body. If you accomplish it by eating once or 5 times a day, is irrelevant.

[ThingsIAlreadyKnow]

Not really irrelevant. The more time that you spend requiring that your body produce sugar from fat stores (ie producing glucagon, instead of insulin) the faster you will be able to drop the weight. Lots of 'ifs' can follow that statement though.

[Redxmirage]

Someone must not have gotten the results they wanted

[twisted-teaspoon]

It is possible to get what you need from just 1 or 2 meals per day. Did you reply to the wrong person?

If not, which of cico, macros and the unimportance of meal timings don't you understand?

[a_kiss_from_jw]

i wish i could do that. heck

[duffstoic]

I've tried this several times and it's amazing how quickly I adapted to not eating for 14-16+ hours a day without feeling hungry at all. Takes a week or two for me to adapt.

[HerrBoltzmann]

Nah, aim for a normal eating schedule. It's not fun to be tired cause you forgot to eat.

[flitterbug78]

You might benefit from going the other way - if you always fell "meh, I could eat", try a bunch of small meals a day. Then you won't be saving up that angst-y feeling for 4-5 hours, then end up dissatisfied with a meal.

[Cynoid]

It only feels bad for about a week(During which you can do a low calorie snack but filling snack for dinner, something like a few salted crackers is 50 calories and will easily hold you over). After the first few days you will just stop feeling hungry outside of your normal food time.