Anyone ever notice this?
 

I was pretty hungry earlier today and was having a pretty bad craving despite the fact that I had eaten like 3 hours prior. Anyway I finally caved and started making Ricearoni which I like. The weird thing is, I've notice that just the preparation of food alone seems to satisfy my food cravings.. About half way through the cooking of my Ricearoni, I wasn't hungry anymore and by the time I was finished, I had a sated feeling in my stomach.. It's really weird, it's almost as if I ate the food without actually eating it.. It's ok though, because when I do get hungry an hour or two from now, I'll have an already prepared meal ready for me.. I just thought I should share this as I found it a little strange.. The other thing which I've heard other people say as well is that when they go for a workout or exercise that they don't feel hungry afterwards which I too experience as well after a good workout..

weird stuff, huh?

'fraid I never noticed that. But...maybe that's why I weigh 205....

ive done this before, make soem food eat it still hungry in the process of makin more i smell it, then its like hmm im full now WTF am i going to do with this

Opposite for me - sometimes I can go until 2 or 3 in the afternoon without being hungry, but if anyone (me or someone else) prepares some breakfast then I get hungry very quickly.

I guess that thinking about the food makes me feel hungry.

-Bob

Never noticed that!

I'm hungry from the time me eyes open, until after lunch sometime... and I even eat breakfast but it never seems to satisfy me!

I eat at 7am, 9:30, 11:30, then the gap.... no dinner until 5 or 6pm, snack or leftovers at 8 or 9.

I'm 6'1" 202lbs, probably carrying 20 extra lbs of love. lol

For me it's definitely opposite. If I or someone else is making food, that just makes me more hungry. If it takes a while then the smell teases me up into a lather and I devour even more.

I know there is something to curbing appetite via the smelling of food. After all half of your eating experience is the smelling of the food as well as the tasting of it.

Add me to the group which isn't satisfied by smell. Smelling food just makes me hungrier. I guess I'm one of Pavlov's dogs.

lol least you guys dont get tricked when you wake up.

about a block from my house is a small dinner that has amazing breakfast and dinners.

well if the wind is just right we get the smell of bacon, eggs, pancakes, fried delicousness inside our house. so somedays ill wake up smell bacon and be like aww sweet someones actually making breakfast!

get outa bed run to the kitchen and nothing noone else is even home or is there any evidence of breakfast hahahha

well you guys know me, i walk the path untravelled. i can actually understand both. i also eat every 2 to 3 hours, and absolutely cannot eat right after a workout or b-ball game. sometimes the smell of good food makes me think i'm hungry, but i can't bring myself to eat.

and of course, there are times i don't feel hungry...until i smell something wonderful. i take a lot of protein shakes, and it seems like when they finish getting digested, i can get a craving all of of a sudden(especially when there's food being cooked).

I have recently found out that a 170 calorie Cadbury Creme Egg eaten before I get hungry makes me not get hungry at all. I ate one mid-morning and wasn't hungry for lunch one day, then another day I ate one about an hour before I would be hungry for supper and I ended up not being hungry for supper until bedtime (at which point it was easy to skip).

think about all the money youre saving when you're not eating, but yes getting up and moving around can affect the way your stomach feels, which some people construe as being hungry., fasting is fun once in a while cause it teaches you that pain is all in your head..

when I dont work I dont eat till then sometimes, but when I work, it's my insta hungry. eat before

I grew up about 5-6 miles from the old Miller brewery in Azusa, CA. Every so often, if the wind was just right, I could walk outside in the early morning and smell....BEER!

I've noticed that when I am cooking food, I am usually tasting, nibbling, etc. By time to eat, I'm full!

QUICK!, patent that. call it the CCE diet, write a book, and become rich and famous touring the country telling your story, making EVEN more $$$.

Wouldn't it be great if that was the answer to my both my financial and weight problems? :D

Four out of five dentists could really MILK this!

Just to show you how gullible people are, there was a pyramid scheme in Utah where a fat couple marketed a "diet cookie." They claimed eating two 50 calorie cookies would quell your craving for food, etc. We analyzed the cookies, which had double the advertised calories. IIRC, we enjoined them from making their fraudulent claims, and the company went under.

I never understood why anyone believed the claims, since both the husband and wife pitchmen were 50 lbs overweight, and you could see it in their promo photos. I guess if you want to believe, you'll believe.

to add to the confusion, some of those "fad" diets can actually work. the adkins diet comes to mind. trouble is, the process either taxes the body long term or the weight loss cannot be sustained.

Yeah, there's plenty of fad diets that will result in weight loss but decreased health, usually accompanied by re-gaining the weight shortly after.

People get so caught up in losing weight that they forget about health...it's like getting twice the MPG but driving three times as far, you've spent more gas even though you got better fuel economy. I guess more are just trying to look (by their definition) good rather than get healthy.

If you sit and eat as I do while driving or stay seated in the car and eat, you may also be like me and feel full to bursting as soon as you get out and walk a few feet.

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here's your Christmas diet...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH7q-jVKx-M

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I eat first thing in the morning, got to have fuel to get the engine started. If I skip breakfast, messes up the whole operation, I have been cooking for the last 12 or so years, in my 30's ate at every fast food and got pretty unhealthy. Then started cooking for myself, flavors got better, food got better, started trying to beat the food I would get a restaurants, finally to the point that food became a hobby.

Now nestled in my soon to be late 40's I buy my beef from real farmers, drink real milk, and use real butter in my food. I eat healthy, a balance of vegetables and protiens, but the main thing is I enjoy food more now then I ever have.

Diets don't work for me, I got a membership to the gym and enjoy working out, it keeps me fit and shaves off the fat, from all that real food.

As far as smelling food, that just creates the desire to feast, like thanks giving where you get so stuffed, you take a 4 hour nap, now that's eat'en.

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I'm sure it depends on why you're hungry. the OP might just be getting hungry from boredom, I know I do and I usually just have some juice or tea to deal with it. Now that schools on break and I don't yet have a job I have to work to keep the fiancee from feeding me what I had biking several miles a day to/from class and standing all afternoon in the shop. Doesn't help she's got a crazy high natural metabolism and mines slow and extremely thorough.
*worried*
"you need to eat. why aren't you eating? are you sick? you'll waste away"
*me*
"What have I done to burn off what I've got? I'm still working on what I ate yesterday plus I could stand to waste away some"