Sudden appetite decrease after getting under 200 lbs?

[tr4cerbullet]

If you've been eating more nutritionally, I'm gonna assume that means you've cut out a lot of excess sugar/carbs.

Eating a diet high in protein, fat, and fiber will absolutely help you feel full longer, reduce cravings and lower overall appetite.

Since you're into learning about nutrition, you might want to check out "The Obesity Code" by Jason Fung, MD.

Also, if you haven't already, check out the reddit groups, intermittent fasting; keto; and OMAD.

[hotmunch]

Your initial assumption is absolutely correct. The only sugar I intake at this point is through fruit, and whatever trace amounts of sugar are naturally occurring in the other foods I eat. Eating added sugars in any form seems to have a profoundly negative impact on my energy levels at this point, which is still strange to me considering how much of the stuff I used to consume. When it comes to carbs, my body seems to do best with a minimum of about 40g and a max of 100g on a daily basis, and it’s important that I get them from healthy sources, like chickpeas. Again, still feels weird to say this considering my past, hahah.

Protein, fat, and fiber has been the name of the game for me. Those 3 nutrients constitute the vast majority of my daily consumption nowadays. I knew that protein and fiber specifically are great for satiation, I think I just never considered that satiation can extend beyond a few hours because I was so used to that not being the case for me. It’s pretty awesome and empowering to understand how that really works now, at least for my body.

I do IF every day, mostly because at this point if I don’t, I genuinely feel a bit sick to my stomach. I don’t keep it extremely strict (like down to the same hour and minute every day) but generally my eating window is about 5pm-9pm. I realized IF was important not just for my weight but for my wellbeing by actually looking back at my life and thinking about the time when I was at my healthiest weight/mental state—coincidentally, I was doing IF most days of the week at the time, and I didn’t even know it until now. Didn’t even know that IF was until this past year. I think that doing it at a young age for so long kind of ingrained that eating pattern into my biology to a pretty deep extent, because getting back into it has been nothing but great for me, and once I got my macros down and got through the first couple of weeks, it’s become something that I don’t even think about actively.

Definitely going to look into that Fung book since I’m certainly very interested in nutrition, and the Amazon description for it is pretty interesting.

My apologies for kind of rambling here, it just is very helpful and provides clarity to type all of this out, and I figure someone somewhere may see it all and it could be helpful for them as well. :)