Does anyone else sometimes deviate from their eating habits for no reason?

[Foodiemoodie]

I eat the same breakfast everyday. Most days it fills me up. Occasionally I’ll eat it and feel too full, and occasionally I’ll still feel hungry and have snacks or fruit right after. It’s not like there’s a noticeable difference between these days and it’s around the same usual time I have breakfast.

Also sometimes I’ll have a satisfying dinner but just feel hungry later even if that dinner normally satisfies me. It’s not eating out of boredom.

Do these random changes happen to anyone else sometimes?

Yes. I was so hungry at lunch time today it physically hurt me.

I had the same breakfast and snack at work that I have every other day. Maybe burning more off to keep warm as it’s so cold?

Some days I don’t fancy much dinner because I’m still so full from lunch. I pretty much eat the same lunch each day so no idea why.

Yeah, I get this. Sometimes I think it might be hormonal.

Thanks for your replies, nice to know I’m not the only one! I’d love to think it’s because the weather is cold but it happens in summer too! Probably some underlying hormonal thing we don’t know about?!

It's great that you are tuned in enough to your body to recognise what it needs each day. Those of us with disordered eating or years of dieting find it much harder to recognise when we simply need more food.

I think it's entirely natural.

Kids and toddlers do it more; I used to fill up on a Sunday lunch and barely eat for two days afterwards.

When I lived on my own I only ate when I was hungry; always breakfast and had to be immediately on waking. That was just how I was. If I didn't feel hungry I didn't eat. Always dinner but sometimes didn't need any lunch or would just graze a bit of cheese. I'd have the odd day when I barely ate much and others where I'd eat loads. I remember waking up in the middle of the night once desperate for baked beans which I made and gobbled. I also remember not having much interest in carbs sometimes and only eating some meat and veg. I feel like I was really healthy then! Definitely no weight issues.

Dh was more traditional and insistent on x 3 meals so I kind of got out of the habits.

Hv said it's "calories over a week" for toddlers and that fits with some of the fasting diets whereby they barely eat for a day here and there.

As I've aged and seem to graze plus 3 meals (!) I've noticed I do have times of the month where it's more than others. I wish I could go back to how I used to be (though have noticed that hrt is helping)

@DolphinDreams

It's great that you are tuned in enough to your body to recognise what it needs each day. Those of us with disordered eating or years of dieting find it much harder to recognise when we simply need more food.

I have been dieting for a while, I think sometimes I understand I need more food but don’t really want to acknowledge it so that I don’t eat more! But I’m working on accepting my body for what it is and trying not to question and come up with a bunch of reasons every time I feel hungry when I ‘shouldn’t’.

@WarriorN

I think it's entirely natural.

Kids and toddlers do it more; I used to fill up on a Sunday lunch and barely eat for two days afterwards.

When I lived on my own I only ate when I was hungry; always breakfast and had to be immediately on waking. That was just how I was. If I didn't feel hungry I didn't eat. Always dinner but sometimes didn't need any lunch or would just graze a bit of cheese. I'd have the odd day when I barely ate much and others where I'd eat loads. I remember waking up in the middle of the night once desperate for baked beans which I made and gobbled. I also remember not having much interest in carbs sometimes and only eating some meat and veg. I feel like I was really healthy then! Definitely no weight issues.

Dh was more traditional and insistent on x 3 meals so I kind of got out of the habits.

Hv said it's "calories over a week" for toddlers and that fits with some of the fasting diets whereby they barely eat for a day here and there.

As I've aged and seem to graze plus 3 meals (!) I've noticed I do have times of the month where it's more than others. I wish I could go back to how I used to be (though have noticed that hrt is helping)

Thank you for this reply, I feel a bit better!! I think it’s a lot easier to graze when you haven’t had a filling meal. So if I’ve had a dinner which is really light, or one that I didn’t enjoy so I didn’t eat much, I think oh well at least I’ll have lost a bit of weight. But I end up having a huge amount of snacks later because I’m so hungry so it negates those effects! Being satisfied helps in general I think, it’s much more about what you eat than how much you eat.