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I agree with elizellen. One thing I have found is that I need to eat several small meals to loose consistently and not accidently end up starving. The problem is that when I started I had no idea how much to eat and when. I couldn't tell when I was hungry unless it was a really dramatic stomach turned wrong side out feeling. I would eat too much or too little. As I made myself have at least something several times a day I've noticed some subconscious changes. My dinners became much smaller for one. This caused me to have room for a breakfast. Two of my "meals" ended up being very small high protein snacks. While I started craving fat in the morning, I ended up eating most of my carbs around lunch time. I've also learned that what I thought was hunger really isn't, hunger is a much more subtle sensation to me. I think by making yourself eat several smaller meals your body has a chance to re-learn how to sense and manage hunger and you get used to it. I can't eat just 2 or 3 meals anymore or I'll crash and when I started I had to practically force myself to eat some of those snacks.