Anonymous wrote:I can relate. I’ve been counting and restricting calories, and I am miserable. I just miss food and eating. It gets to the point where I don’t want to get out of bed and go to bed early. If I sleep more then I have less time to be miserable and hungry.

DH has been supportive, but annoyed at the same time. I don’t want to go places with the family and have no motivation to do the things he likes - hiking, fixing up the house. I’m too tired and miserable from not eating.

I do eat lots of protein and fat. I still crave sugar, fat, salt, and flour. I think I’d feel the same way if I cut all caffeine. I’d just feel like I can’t function without it.

Anonymous wrote:My weight is all over the damn place. Hit a plateau, then decided to eat 800 net for 2 weeks. No lost an additional 0.

Now decided to eat my maintenance and gained 5 lbs. However, I am more energetic, faster, and stronger at the gym. Not sure what to do since I really want to go from 20% to 15% BF.

Anonymous wrote:I can relate. I’ve been counting and restricting calories, and I am miserable. I just miss food and eating. It gets to the point where I don’t want to get out of bed and go to bed early. If I sleep more then I have less time to be miserable and hungry.

DH has been supportive, but annoyed at the same time. I don’t want to go places with the family and have no motivation to do the things he likes - hiking, fixing up the house. I’m too tired and miserable from not eating.

I do eat lots of protein and fat. I still crave sugar, fat, salt, and flour. I think I’d feel the same way if I cut all caffeine. I’d just feel like I can’t function without it.

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Anonymous wrote:Up your lean protein so you are not hungry. Seriously, the bulk of your calories should be protein. Non fat greek yogurt, boneless skinless chicken, lean ground turkey or beef, tofu, etc. Add a bunch of veggies to your protein and that should keep you full.

You mean full fat Greek yogurt, right? That nonfat stuff isn't filling. And it should be plain, not flavored with anything. Sprinkle some berries or granola for flavor etc.

Anonymous wrote:It has nothing to with the amount or frequency of what you when you are eating. It is all a factor of what you are eating.

I have lost roughly 100 lbs this year and nothing was miserable, once I learned what to eat. Nothing from a box, package, or can (only caveats are unprocessed/no additive fruits and veggies, some cheeses, no/low sugar Greek yogurt, and some granolas). Only thing that I eat that is dairy heavy is small amounts of cheese.

I eat whenever I want. How much I have worked out and how many calories I have consumed that day help me decide what I am going to eat but I never feel deprived, starved or miserable.

Anonymous wrote:^to add - I really don’t think most people understand how incredibly unhelpful foods with preservation, additives, or even ingredients such as bleached flour are. This stuff is everywhere in your grocery store. It is essentially 99% of what you will find in the middle aisles of your grocery store. You can be eating the exact same number of calories with this stuff or without and you will see less health and weight loss with a diet that has preservatives and additives. This is because that stuff hinders the effectiveness of your cells, it increases inflammation (bloat, gastro issues etc…), and it leaves you less nourished and hungry more often.

The food and diet messaging in this country has overemphasized the important of calories and underplayed the importance of true food ingredients. Food the way the earth made it.

I will probably start a war saying this but look at the intense raving that these impossible burgers made a couple years ago. Turn over the box with its pretty “health” marketing on the front and look at the ingredients. The whole thing is composed of garbage 4-5 syllable ingredients that hinder your bodies natural mechanism. Anyway, rant over but I just really feel for so many people in this country struggling with their diets, their weight etc… it doesn’t have to be so hard for so many but we have so much garbage ingredients in so much of our food that is hurting peoples well being.

Anonymous wrote:Agree with PP. I’m down 12 pounds in about a month and a half based on strict, consistent calorie tracking (I weigh and log everything that goes in my mouth). I felt hungry for the first week, and now don’t.

There’s been research that shows that people are shockingly bad at estimating portions. Unless I weight what I’m eating, I will unconsciously eat more even though I think I’m eating less.

Anonymous wrote:It has nothing to with the amount or frequency of what you when you are eating. It is all a factor of what you are eating.

I have lost roughly 100 lbs this year and nothing was miserable, once I learned what to eat. Nothing from a box, package, or can (only caveats are unprocessed/no additive fruits and veggies, some cheeses, no/low sugar Greek yogurt, and some granolas). Only thing that I eat that is dairy heavy is small amounts of cheese.

I eat whenever I want. How much I have worked out and how many calories I have consumed that day help me decide what I am going to eat but I never feel deprived, starved or miserable.

Anonymous wrote:It has nothing to with the amount or frequency of what you when you are eating. It is all a factor of what you are eating.

I have lost roughly 100 lbs this year and nothing was miserable, once I learned what to eat. Nothing from a box, package, or can (only caveats are unprocessed/no additive fruits and veggies, some cheeses, no/low sugar Greek yogurt, and some granolas). Only thing that I eat that is dairy heavy is small amounts of cheese.

I eat whenever I want. How much I have worked out and how many calories I have consumed that day help me decide what I am going to eat but I never feel deprived, starved or miserable.