strange posted:If you're always feeling hungry especially not long after eating a meal, then you could actually be craving electrolytes, especially potassium.
Due to my many episodes of dehydration, my Doctors believe my mind confuses the feeling of thirst with hunger, therefore I eat because I believe I'm feeling hungry, when in fact I'm actually thirsty and my electrolyte levels are dropping.
Taking Prednisone will most definately increase your appietite, it did mine; it also somehow causes the body to retain fat and water, I pilled on the pounds when prescribed Prednisone.
Otherwise, maintaining an ideal weight to height ratio is a balance of consuming a suffictent amount of healthy foods, which matches your level of activity,
There's no need to buy low calorie diet food but just cut out the high calorie foods, such as doughnuts, cream cakes, ice cream, fatty oily beef burgers and the likes.
Also, reduce portions size of the food served; lots of people don't realise that the size of portions served and ate is actually double or even triple the recommended serving for that of one person..
If sitting around most of the time, then more food is being ate than burnt off, therefore the pounds begin to pile on.
There is no real need to hit the gym, although that depends on the desired end result but just reduce the food intake and increase activity; walking more, even parking the car further away from the shops can actually make a difference, especially when done at every given opportunity; however, only when food intake is reduced to match the level activity.
There are lots of dieters; who, after a workout or a run, will devour a tub of ice cream or a box of doughnuts and wonder why they are not losing weight.
Coming back to this thread...I do notice that I am ALWAYS thirsty. I can literally drink all day and I will never feel hydrated. I've been drinking a lot of G2 Gatorade lately (less sugar) to get my electrolytes in. I have a hard time drinking water only, which is why I opt for Gatorade and things like diet soda (I know, probably not smart). There are times when I crave water though.
I recently bought these dissolvable electrolyte tablets called Nuun to put in my water.
Do you think a Potassium supplement might help?