I experience chronic overeating. i live a very health lifestyle, but i always feel hungry. i have got all the standard blood tests done. what should i do?

Normal response: Attempt at caloric restriction will leave you feeling hungry ant that is a normal response. Eating smaller meals more frequently may help.

Nutrient deficiency: Chronic overeating from nutrient deficiencies such as vitamins, essential fatty acids ( fatty foods), protein (meat), or unstable blood sugar may not reflect on lab testing. Food sensitivities such as wheat gluten increase appetite as part of the reaction. Fatigue & problems concentrating cause eating for counterfeit energy. Leptin resistance causes chronic hunger. Only protein decreases appetite.

Emptiness?: Much in life that distresses us leaves us hungering. Non-restorative sleep can prompt daytime inner compulsion for relief - misrepresented as hunger. Depression includes overeating as one of vegetative symptoms included in diagnosis. Medications and even supplements/vitamins can increase appetite. The modeling of those around you has been found to influence intake. Eat to satisfaction not fullness.

Never full: Serotonin, the neurotransmitter that antidepressants affect, is also one of the hormones of satiety. Antidepressants may help some people who never feel full. Other hormones like leptin and ghrelin are also involved, but are not current treatment targets. Avoiding simple sugars and carbs also may help a person feel full--to much simple carbohydrate causes rebound hunger.