Cutting calories and dealing with the hunger...how do you do it?

[Anonymous]

If you eat a high protein/veggie, low carb diet and drink lots of water, you won't feel hungry during the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I fell off the wagon last night after trying to eat better and smaller portions. I was doing a lot of veggies, fruits, salads along with a protein but always felt hungry. Last night, I cut loose and got my fill of chocolate chip cookies, ice cream and chips. And a little soda.

It felt so good and all so yummy. But the strange thing is that I still felt hungry. It's like my body is making fun of me and my efforts to do better. I hate hate hate feeling hungry.

Getting back on track this week....

Eat whole grain carbs instead of the white carbs - white bread, white rice, everything with white flour, leaves me hungry like 15 minutes later. When I eat brown rice, whole wheat bread, etc, I feel satiated after meals and it’s much easier to stick to reasonable amounts of food.

[Anonymous]

Eat a ketogenic diet. No hunger. It’s amazing.

[Anonymous]

I am trying the eat a lot but only once a day and it working well. I drink a lot of the water the other waking hours and so far, not much hunger

[Anonymous]

Learn to embrace hunger. Lean into it. Hunger is power.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eat a ketogenic diet. No hunger. It’s amazing.

Keto is the only way I have ever watched my intake and not felt hungry.

[Anonymous]

Can someone please explain what a ketogenic diet is (consists of) and what is "being in" ketosis?

I prefer personal stories to googling.

[Anonymous]

Just ask yourself, would you rather lose weight, or eat and be fat? You don't lose weight by eating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I fell off the wagon last night after trying to eat better and smaller portions. I was doing a lot of veggies, fruits, salads along with a protein but always felt hungry. Last night, I cut loose and got my fill of chocolate chip cookies, ice cream and chips. And a little soda.

It felt so good and all so yummy. But the strange thing is that I still felt hungry. It's like my body is making fun of me and my efforts to do better. I hate hate hate feeling hungry.

Getting back on track this week....

When I succeeded in loosing 35 lbs, I started by focusing on increasing my veges with my goal being 2-3 full servings at every meal. By full servings, I mean the full cup of steamed broccoli, for example. I also included fats for satiety and then added a variety of proteins from nuts to dairy to eggs and meats.

I did sometimes have a craving for something sweet and for those times I would make a hot chocolate from one of those foil pouches. It is the right amount of sweetness but, more importantly, when it's actually hot, there's no way to just down it quickly and reach for the next sweet thing.

I also found it important to keep on hand quick snacks that I liked to eat -- sliced apple, hard boiled egg, string cheese, etc. It also sometimes helped to have a good snack on hand that took a while to eat -- pistachios, for example.

It's also important to not starve yourself. It may feel like it should be a quick victory to drastically reduce your calorie intake but for most people that sets them up for failure because it causes their metabolism to slow down and the hormones that govern hunger to increase. By focusing on whole foods and eating intentionally while still satiating yourself, you're setting yourself up for gradual and continual weight loss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate hate hate feeling hungry.

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?

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.

Not OP here. When I get hungry, I get nauseous, so instead of hunger, I feel like I'm going to throw up. This has been ever since I had kids. I've had all the tests and I'm not diabetic or pre-diabetic. This is just how I experience hunger now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Actually, I'm carrying around extra weight because I drink too much alcohol and eat way more processed food than fruit and veges.

[Anonymous]

I have two handfuls is walnuts a day. One a little before dinner and one before lunch. It helps me to eat small servings at meals.