Anonymous wrote:GAH. I do not know how those of you who eat 1200 cals on the daily do it.

I am not huge and have a dense/muscular body so my weight has always been on the higher end for my size, even when I wore a 0/2, but I really do need to buckle down and lose 10 lbs that are the result of travel, holidays, wine, and cheese. I do normally eat very healthily, but I do also have a huge appetite (always have), and trying to stick to 1200 to shake this extra fluff is killing me!

My BMI is 24 so I don't think I'd qualify for any weight loss meds, but I seriously am starving - and very grumpy as a result. I am drinking tons of water, but any other tricks to defeat or distract from hunger?

I had super painful hunger but I'm also obese. However, I meet with a registered dietitian to help me with cravings and avoiding mindless mid morning snacking at work. She told me that the fluctuations in blood sugar are causing the really extreme hunger. That I need to protein load in the morning and keep it stable throughout the day with four small meals, each having at least 3 grams of fiber. If you can fine tune meal planning to keep consistent, regular intake of protein and fiber, it may help with the hunger.

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Anonymous wrote:Well 1200 calories is ridiculous first of all. But what are you eating? You need to be eating lots and lots of low cal high protein food to keep you full. You have absolutely no calories to waste on fats and high calorie carbs. Foods: non fat greek yogurt, 93% ground turkey and beef, wild salmon, boneless skinless chicken, oatmeal, potatoes, veggies. These will keep you full for minimal calories. But seriously up your calories to about 1500.

This and try to eat some berries with the nonfat greek yogurt. With 1200 calorie daily diet I wouldn't eat salmon. Would try to eat 96% ground beef, ground sirloin steak and skinless chicken breast. Absolutely no nuts or processed foods.

For exercise, don't run just walk running may trigger hunger.

This is the worst thing you can do. Low fat and fat free foods are setting your body up for failure.

Not necessarily. The issue people face is the unwillingness to recognize how calories dense dietary fat is - like people that refuse to stop eating peanut butter because it is "yummy." Fat is satiating, but removal of it won't necessarily have the opposite effect for everybody.

Beyond this, there is a massive gulf between fat free Greek yogurt and fat free processed foods that are the result of fat fearing. Lumping those together is dumb.

Overall, the formula that works for 99.9% of people is simple: lean meats, vegetables, fruit, legumes, unprocessed nuts in reasonable quantities, and water.

It's not simple though: it requires massive self control, discipline, proper shopping and preparedness, a less stressful intense life to be able to focus and think clearly about choices and weight loss. If someone has always been thin, they simply don't understand what it's like. I know I didn't before I became heavy. And I certainly did not eat how you describe (yet I was thin!).

I disagree any of this requires massive self-control. You have to prioritize it. Most people don't want to do that.

You might have a much easier time than someone else. That's partly why weight loss drugs work: they bring the amount of self-control required down for people who have normally struggled.

Well, some people had a much easier time in calculus and differential equations than I did, yet we all finished engineering school, and I destroyed them when it came to the actual field specific material. If avoiding eating the massive piles of shelf stable garbage in 7 eleven is considered "massive self control", I cannot image that person attempting something actually difficult.

Maybe you are a man, and yes, it's easier for men. Women have hormonal shifts all the time. It results in varying levels of hunger. I personally get pretty ravenous during PMS, then not nearly as much when my period comes. Breastfeeding alters appetite, so does perimenopause. It's not as simple as having an easy/hard time with Calculus at all. Think of it as if you were a genius one day and struggling to do more basic Math the next. There's something deeply difficult about managing that. Not to mention it doesn't happen in a vacuum outside of life stressors, work, family...So it doesn't mean it cannot be done, but there is too much judgement around the issue as well as some real smugness for people who simply don't get that it is in fact not simple. As for that last sentence, I am sure you know many people who are overweight but have accomplished great things in other areas of their lives.

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Anonymous wrote:Well 1200 calories is ridiculous first of all. But what are you eating? You need to be eating lots and lots of low cal high protein food to keep you full. You have absolutely no calories to waste on fats and high calorie carbs. Foods: non fat greek yogurt, 93% ground turkey and beef, wild salmon, boneless skinless chicken, oatmeal, potatoes, veggies. These will keep you full for minimal calories. But seriously up your calories to about 1500.

This and try to eat some berries with the nonfat greek yogurt. With 1200 calorie daily diet I wouldn't eat salmon. Would try to eat 96% ground beef, ground sirloin steak and skinless chicken breast. Absolutely no nuts or processed foods.

For exercise, don't run just walk running may trigger hunger.

This is the worst thing you can do. Low fat and fat free foods are setting your body up for failure.

Not necessarily. The issue people face is the unwillingness to recognize how calories dense dietary fat is - like people that refuse to stop eating peanut butter because it is "yummy." Fat is satiating, but removal of it won't necessarily have the opposite effect for everybody.

Beyond this, there is a massive gulf between fat free Greek yogurt and fat free processed foods that are the result of fat fearing. Lumping those together is dumb.

Overall, the formula that works for 99.9% of people is simple: lean meats, vegetables, fruit, legumes, unprocessed nuts in reasonable quantities, and water.

It's not simple though: it requires massive self control, discipline, proper shopping and preparedness, a less stressful intense life to be able to focus and think clearly about choices and weight loss. If someone has always been thin, they simply don't understand what it's like. I know I didn't before I became heavy. And I certainly did not eat how you describe (yet I was thin!).

I disagree any of this requires massive self-control. You have to prioritize it. Most people don't want to do that.

Couldn’t agree more. It takes some work and most people are too lazy to do it. They want the easy way out (drugs). That’s why we’re so fat

have you seen those videos where they show two plates of food/snacks? they both may be the same calories, but one is tiny and one is huge. one i remember (bad example) had a snickers bar and the other had a giant pile of strawberries for the same amount of calories.

so, if you intentionally change some of your choices, you should be able to avoid being hungry.

also, MORE PROTEIN!

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Anonymous wrote:Well 1200 calories is ridiculous first of all. But what are you eating? You need to be eating lots and lots of low cal high protein food to keep you full. You have absolutely no calories to waste on fats and high calorie carbs. Foods: non fat greek yogurt, 93% ground turkey and beef, wild salmon, boneless skinless chicken, oatmeal, potatoes, veggies. These will keep you full for minimal calories. But seriously up your calories to about 1500.

This and try to eat some berries with the nonfat greek yogurt. With 1200 calorie daily diet I wouldn't eat salmon. Would try to eat 96% ground beef, ground sirloin steak and skinless chicken breast. Absolutely no nuts or processed foods.

For exercise, don't run just walk running may trigger hunger.

This is the worst thing you can do. Low fat and fat free foods are setting your body up for failure.

Not necessarily. The issue people face is the unwillingness to recognize how calories dense dietary fat is - like people that refuse to stop eating peanut butter because it is "yummy." Fat is satiating, but removal of it won't necessarily have the opposite effect for everybody.

Beyond this, there is a massive gulf between fat free Greek yogurt and fat free processed foods that are the result of fat fearing. Lumping those together is dumb.

Overall, the formula that works for 99.9% of people is simple: lean meats, vegetables, fruit, legumes, unprocessed nuts in reasonable quantities, and water.

It's not simple though: it requires massive self control, discipline, proper shopping and preparedness, a less stressful intense life to be able to focus and think clearly about choices and weight loss. If someone has always been thin, they simply don't understand what it's like. I know I didn't before I became heavy. And I certainly did not eat how you describe (yet I was thin!).

I disagree any of this requires massive self-control. You have to prioritize it. Most people don't want to do that.

You might have a much easier time than someone else. That's partly why weight loss drugs work: they bring the amount of self-control required down for people who have normally struggled.

Well, some people had a much easier time in calculus and differential equations than I did, yet we all finished engineering school, and I destroyed them when it came to the actual field specific material. If avoiding eating the massive piles of shelf stable garbage in 7 eleven is considered "massive self control", I cannot image that person attempting something actually difficult.

You sir are hungry for some emotional intelligence