Cutting calories and dealing with the hunger...how do you do it?
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Anonymous
Here are some questions for you: Why are you so afraid of feeling hungry? What do you think is going to happen? Do you think your body is really in some danger? Do you understand that the hungry feeling typically passes in 10-15 minutes if you just ride it out? Do you really believe that your body is unable to make it between meals without eating? Have you considered that you have some emotional issues tied up with eating that make the slightest feeling of hunger into an emergency for you? |
Anonymous
Are you eating enough fat? I’d be starving on lean protein and vegetables. Maybe try things like eggs with avocado or real bacon, chicken legs with skin, salad with full fat dressing etc? |
Anonymous
OP here. Not afraid of feeling hungry but it's more so, even when I'm full, I still want to eat. I think I've trained my body only to be full when my gut is bursting with food. Now that I think about it, it's more of a feeling of being satiated is what I miss, which is what I'm interpreting as hunger. That feeling of not being satiated (i.e. hungry) does not go away in 10-15 mins for me. It's with me all day long. I can fight it sometimes until I go to sleep but it's hard. Heavy junk foods make me feel full and happy. I took what a previous poster said about eating all the fruits and vegetables that your heart desires and still lose weight and am trying that. Last night, I ate one full onion (cooked), a gaggle of vegetables, some low fat chicken sausage and eggs with a carrot. I was very full and partially satiated. The crazy thing is that I weighed myself today and I actually lost 1 pound, whereas if that were ice cream, chips and soda, I would have been up a pound or two. For all you who think that 1 pound could just be a bowel movement or water weight, I've weighed myself consistently for the last month and I know it was due to eating veggies instead of junk food. We'll see if it holds. Good luck to everyone fighting the calorie fight! |
Anonymous
Can you expound upon this? I am 5'2" and 130 pounds. I need to lose 10 pounds. How much water should I be drinking daily according to this poster's calculation? |
Anonymous
Your hunger doesn’t work like mine. Once I am hungry, I stay hungry until I eat again. Do other people really just atop being hungry after 10 minutes? That is so weird to me. PP didn’t say that the slightest bit of hunger is an emergency. You are putting words into her mouth. |
Anonymous
Gotta love the DCUM extrapolation that just because you don’t like being hungry means you are weak, fat, and need an emergency sleeve of Oreo cookies. |
Anonymous
The rule of thumb is half your weight in ounces or at least 64oz, which ever is more. Your body at rest can process 32oz per hour. I would drink as much water as your can without poisoning yourself (which is difficult to do if you're not a marathon runner). |
Anonymous
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What ever gave you all the idea that you should feel "fully satiated" all the time?
All of you are jumping on and saying that I'm so mean, but if you are carrying around extra weight, you are eating more than your body needs. Simple as that! Go ahead and hate the messenger, but until you accept that needing to "feel full and happy" from food is the reason you are carrying around those extra pounds, nothing is going to change. And that is your choice to make. Just accept that is what you are choosing. Or seek happiness and comfort from something other than eating. |
Anonymous
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Here is what worked for me and my goal was also to lose about 16 lbs:
- Long term lifestyle change and not a short term diet: I did not look at it as a diet that will end after a month or 6 months. It was a lifestyle change that will last for the rest of my life. This changed my mindset in two ways: prevented binge eating (ok, I eat today and tomorrow will go back to my diet) before, during, and after reaching my goal. It also helped bring kinder and gentler to myself so if I go beyond one day by 100, 200, or 300 calories - it was not failure, because it is not a short term goal but a lifestyle change. - regular exercise, also choosing things that I can stick with long term in terms of time, $ and effort commitment. - dealing with hunger: I did have days when I was still hungry. Depending on whether I felt real hunger or the need to munch, I did eat. But I chose healthy options - big bowl of salad with oil and lemon and may be a protein (egg or tuna), in the big scheme of things it did not add significant calories (I was not counting calories in non starchy vegetables like lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc) so just a tbsp of oil and 1 egg (about 200 calories). Or make popcorn or fruit. - I did not restrict the foods I liked like cake, ice cream, etc. I just ate them less often and sometimes smaller quantities. - I had minimal calories restriction, to lose about 1/2 lbs per week. This also helped reduce hunger. It took longer, but hey, it’s a lifestyle change and not a short goal. In any case, I saw noticeable results already by end of month 4 and another 4 months to lose remaining weight. - ap took into account steps and exercise, so I had allocated more calories on days of lots of walking / exercise. Good luck. |
Anonymous
| This may sound too simplistic, but when I'm hungry but want to not eat, I drink black coffee or hot tea. I know everyone says drink lots of water, since dehydration can feel like hunger. I do drink tons of water throughout the day (close to a gallon), but in terms of curbing that hunger, black coffee does the trick for me. I do intermittent fasting, so I drink about 3 cups of black coffee in the morning until I break my fast around 1pm. At night, I'm rarely hungry at this point after dinner but if I do want something, I drink hot herbal tea. It satisfies that feeling of putting something in your mouth, which other "tricks" like knitting, etc. don't satisfy. |
Anonymous
| Black coffee and herbal tea work for me, too. |
Anonymous
+1 on tea, but i drank regular black tea. |
Anonymous
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I use the feeling of mild hunger to let me know that I am not over eating. so I have come to think of it as a positive feeling.
i have been tracking calories in vs out for about 6 weeks and have lost about 5 lbs. i do understand the need to feel full and have some strategies for that (yogurt, almond milk smoothy) but i decided to embrace the nagging hunger feeling as positive biofeedback because of course my body is going to tell me to eat more after years of eating to super fullness. embrace the hunger! |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Usually the first day of, let's say, skipping dinner, you will be hungry till you fall asleep. At least I will. But, next day you will not be that hungry in the morning after skipping dinner. It really works. Then you will be a lot less hungry as days pass by and you don't eat dinner(or breakfast, choose your meal). So, yes, it works different for different people. But, if you actually try not eating for 24 hours, you will wake up the morning when hitting 36 hours without food completely void of any hunger pains or any desire to eat. Try it. You will be surprised. We are meant to go without food and function for long period of time. |