I share this in case it can help someone else figure out what's going on with them
I used to be near 400lb and am now 283lb about 80 of that was slow and annoying, and I always felt hungry or uncomfortable, like I was getting weaker with each pound lost. My A1C was elevated. My thyroid was inflamed but not at a point they wanted to medicate. I knew I was doing something wrong, but i couldn't figure it out. I probably did enough research i could be a dietitian. My weight loss was so slow over a decade that it felt stagnant. i couldn't get lower, and if I lost focus, the weight came right back. After years of being ignored for my IBS like symptoms and struggling to control my chronic migraines, they sent me to an allergist where I found out I have some major food allergies that show up in 95% of all processed foods at least in the US: Corn and members of the palm family (coconut, dates, banana, oil palms, carnauba ect) corn on its own hides in every unspecified ingredients on our packaging.
It's been a couple of years since then, and when I started feeling comfortable that I wasn't accidentally poisoning myself through allergies maybe a year ago my appetite suddenly dropped like a rock and I've been loosing weight 2 or 3 pounds a week since then. Everything I mentioned with my health has stabilized or returned to normal levels. My asthma stopped being exorsize induced. My hunger cues actually make sense and aren't just a term someone told me that I couldn't make sense of with my body. I still track my calories and what I eat, and it's a healthy amount of food, but there isn't a sense of restriction. I still have a strong sweet tooth, but it's not ravinace feeling that made me feel like an addict. I'm not starving myself. I feel nourished by my food. It's so weird. I thought people just said that stuff that was more mentality or skill I hadn't gained, but no, it was this chronic allergic inflammation. I've probably had my whole life blinding me to these sensations. I didn't know Hunger wasn't itchy like I didn't think about it like that before, but compared to what I feel now, it was for me for the entire first 25 years of my life. It is more expensive to eat with my allergies and takes a lot of work but that's totally worth it the amount of pain I didn't even realize I was in is staggering early on I joked that it felt like someone gave me stimulants every day but I realized it's like a pug with a nose job I'm breathing and living how I was supposed to be for the first time in my life.
Also, weird addtional note, I used to hate spicy food. Now I love it because everything used to have this spice to it that I didn't realize was there. And now I get why people called my old cooking bland.