So it seems that you need only 4 more months. :)

No intentional changes..

Towards the end of week 3, I found that when looking for food (because I felt hungry), I would end up thinking "do I really want to eat something?" and deciding not to and just making a glass of Vimto cordial instead. This would make the feeling of hunger go away..

I don't have any popcorn with me today though. Might try going without it this week.

I'm not so sure if such decisions are healthy - it depends what food it was and what kind of hunger feeling it was.

Sugary food like chocolate and the kind of hunger that goes away on the first swig of drink.

I don't always just get a drink, depends how close it is to the next mealtime. Close? Drink. Pretty far? Grab an apple or something instead.

Grabbing an apple or something like that is a much healthier alternative. That kind of mentality is probably one of the reasons you've been doing so well with your diet and weight loss! Keep up the good work! :)

Bumping the thread a little bit up.

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Malt sugar (found in beer and some other stuff too) is very fattening for some reason. Better to keep intake low.

The complication is that both anorexia and overeating are expressions of dysregulated appetite, and short of lots of attention/focus (and a bit of knowledge doesn't hurt) the body has a hard time distinguishing hunger (actual need for food/calories) from appetite (desire for food/calories). Certainly boredom is one expression of appetite but it's not the only.

I've never seen it in actual scientific lit, but there's a popular health theory that many people misperceive thirst as hunger, so turn to snacks in moments where the body is trying to express a desire for water, and it is true that both thirst and hunger have some similar superficial expressions.

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/wellness/hunger-vs-thirst-are-you-eating-when-you-should-be-drinking/

I'm sorry you struggle with that personally though.

edit - oh, and intensive mental focus does deplete glucose in the brain, so working/thinking can create a craving for snacks as well that isn't, strictly speaking, boredom.

I haven't read the thread since the first page or so, so perhaps that's already been covered.

Good luck to you.

On the positive side, trying to lose weight can be great for saving money, I spend more on food than I do on rent because I have a ridiculously hyperactive metabolism and end up looking skeletal if I have a "healthy" amount of food.

I'm kinda jealous of people who have to work to keep their weight down, eating 5-6k calories per day just to maintain a weight that's 20# under where it should be is a pain, and really flippin' expensive.

I'm sitting here, typing this, with a 40 oz jar of peanut butter with molasses and dark chocolate chunks mixed into it eating it by the spoonful because nut butters are one of the few things that I can get a TON of calories from without stuffing myself beyond capacity.

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I would in a heartbeat, I'm a broke single parent who can't afford his games unless he plans for them meticulously, if I could go without ever eating again I'd be happy to do it.

You sure it's hyperactive metabolism and not some problem with absorbing nutrients and/or turning unused energy from them to reserves?