Exercising too hard can actually make you feel less hungry, and more prone to overeat in one sitting a few hours later.
You don’t need to spend hours being active to start feeling hungry. Work for a little bit, and then wait for a while to see if you feel hungrier than before.
Be sure to not exert yourself too hard for the sake of feeling hungry.
Skipping breakfast can make you less hungry throughout the day, as it can keep your metabolism from “starting” after sleeping. Eating food in the morning is more likely to help you feel hungry during the day than skipping an early meal.
One way to figure out when your eating times should be is to go through your day, writing down feelings of hunger as they start to come up, and eating when they do. This can help you create a natural eating schedule. You can also try rating your fullness on a scale from 1-10 to see if that helps you find a good time of day to eat. When your fullness levels are lowest, that may be a good time to stop and eat a meal.
If you don’t have any devices capable of setting alarms, you can always work on getting in the habit of regularly checking the time and trying to eat when you notice the time for a meal is coming up.
You may even find yourself feeling more hungry between meals with this approach, since you won’t be over-filling at each meal to compensate for a bigger gap between meals.
Bad headaches and dizziness so bad that you feel disoriented are symptoms of pretty extreme hunger. If these start to become common ways for you to tell if you’re hungry, you may want to consider seeing a doctor.
Try checking in every few hours to see if you notice any grumbling or pain in your stomach.
If you still feel one or more signs of hunger after around 10 minutes, it’s almost certainly hunger. This is especially true if another symptom of hunger came up as you were waiting.
