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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 50 pounds to lose and I know counting calories is the only way to do it.

It’s been a week and I am starving. I did this before over the summer and was so hungry I had to quit. It made me short tempered and angry, especially with my little kids.

Is this hunger my new normal? I was obviously eating too much since I was overweight.

Does my body just need to get used to eating like this? How long until I’m not so hungry?[/quote]

You are so wrong.  It is not about calories; it's about hormones.  Bring down your insulin and you will lose weight.  Low carb, high fat.  I eat at least 1900 calories a day, sometimes up to 2200, and still lose weight.

You will only fail at this.  Calorie restriction leads to a metabolism slowdown.  You'll lose weight at first, then plateau, then gain it all back and be sicker than before.

Read "Why We Get Fat" by Gary Taubes.  It will change your life![/quote]

Please stop with this Taubes guy. OP knows how she got heavy.... it is calories, heavy person can't eat the same number of calories even after losing weight as never heavy person can. OP, I watched a documentary Weight of the Nation by HBO recently. It is on Youtube, it is scary to watch, but it has legitimate studies done to support the findings presented. We all eat too much, way too much! We aren't even aware how much we are eating and how sedentary we are. Yes, of course it is about hormones as this pp is stating, but your hormones react to your weight gain and caloric intake. I bet you this pp was never overweight and has no clue and might spend 6 hours in the gym. Not everybody wants to gorge on meat all day long. But, definitely avoid sugar in any food and be aware it is hidden in most foods. Even Wegman's rotisserie chicken has sugar. It is insane.[/quote]

Oh, right, I'm sure you know more than a journalist who has been studying nutrition science for decades since you watched an HBO special.  (eye roll.)

Ironically, Taubes would agree with you on the dangerous ubiquity of sugar, even in chicken.  But the problem with sugar is not the calories in it!  It's how it spikes your blood glucose and spikes your insulin.  Starch does it too.  A calorie from grass fed butter is not just as fattening as a calorie from sugar.

I spent a decade restricting my calories and drinking Diet Coke all day and still got fatter.  In my 20's, I ate 100-1200 calories most days, some less than that, and still got very fat.  I worked out every weekday, too.  I ate very low fat..a lot of rice, lean chicken, etc.  a lot of plain pasta.  Low calorie, low fat, sugar free.  Got fat.  And sicker..PCOS, lots of abdominal fat.  It's *hormonal*.  I wasn't eating too much...I was eating way too much carbohydrate and not enough fat.

Now I eat a ton of fat: heavy cream in my coffee, MCT oil, so much Kerrygold butter, etc. and lose weight.  And I'm way less hungry.  I certainly early more calories than I did then.  Shoot, my bulletproof coffee in the AM is way more calories than my typical dinner in my 20's.  But it doesn't spike my insulin so I can still burn fat all day.  [/quote]

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