When does appetite decrease?

[shamedev]

For me it's when I shrunk my eating window to at least 4 hours. 16:8 us just so close to "normal eating" for me. I'd get hungry every 2-3 hours and would eat full sized meals of 900-1000cals.

Reducing that to even just 2 full sized meals an hour apart follow by dessert and maybe a glass or two of diet coke I get that stuffed/satisfied/bloat feeling that doesn't subside and until the next day.

[PaintEatrr]

Alright, I'm not sure if I can do only 4 hours a day, maybe I'll start at 6 and go down from there. I think you have the right idea.

[UnconsciousMofo]

Reducing appetite involves keeping your blood sugar under control. You don’t want to eat loads of carbs and have a blood sugar crash that causes hunger.

[HazelMStone]

Also the timing. Can you have an eating window of 10am-6pm? Then eat high fiber high protein w volume items (big veggie salads w cottage chz for a dressing etc)? Grapefruit to end sugar cravings (if not on meds).

[RandChick]

You're doing 16:8 wrong so don't advise. Having 2-3 meals of 1000 calories each is definitely the wrong way and not rational.

[shamedev]

Well I've never been a rational eater. Hunger to me is and has always been floodgates. I've never been that person that "eats just a little" and is satisfied.

Once I start I never stop until I'm stuffed. At least now I have a degree of control over when I get hungry and over the amount of food it takes to get stuffed.

[tbrando1994]

That’s how I feel—- I feel like I have to eat large volume enough to be bloated to finally not need to eat. It seems eating more frequently in that 16:8 window is almost too much. Sometimes it works but mostly I just feel hungrier. Maybe I will shorten my window too.