T.G.G. Moogly
Traditional Atheist
When I overeat it's because I enjoy the taste of what I'm eating. It has nothing to do with being hungry.And these behaviors are also typical of someone with disordered eating at best and a full on eating disorder at worst. Not living IMO. People are not meant to "put up with hunger". Hunger is your body's way of saying it NEEDS nutrients and it is just STUPID to ignore them. Would you ignore your thirst?
The feeling of hunger can be a habitual sort of process, not always a physiological signal.
Certain types of foods lessen the hunger feeling (such as the effect of protein upon the hypothalamus, etc.) but people can keep eating long after they reach the point of "feeling full."
On the other hand if I'm emaciated or have a condition where I can't keep weight on that's a different ballgame.