What to eat to cope with incredible hunger?
wortn
Posts: 17 Member
Hello.
On the days like today (not too often), I'm extremely hungry. I can eat non stop and still be hungry. Any suggestions how to curb it? I cannot eat most fruits and vegetables due to salicylates allergy. Basically, I'm allowed to eat celery, bananas and cabbage. Please, help!
On the days like today (not too often), I'm extremely hungry. I can eat non stop and still be hungry. Any suggestions how to curb it? I cannot eat most fruits and vegetables due to salicylates allergy. Basically, I'm allowed to eat celery, bananas and cabbage. Please, help!
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Protein is the most satiating... better without refined carbs like bread, rice and pasta.. it's quite hard generally to overeat on protein as it fills you up very well. Eat it with some good added fat (mayo, butter or similar) as fat is also very satisfying. Drinking more fluid does help fill you up.. if you cant stand water I find several hot cups of tea in a row help to reduce appetite13
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Greek yogurt works for me.4
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Perhaps these: sweet potatoes, rice, peas, corn, pasta, bread, bagels.
Also, meat, chicken, tuna, salmon, eggs, milk, cheese (with no food coloring added), butter, cashews, pecans.
Consider increasing fats and oils.2 -
This is might be my wake up call to increase proteins. I'm trying to loose weight and stay on 1580 calories per day.3
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eileen0515 wrote: »Greek yogurt works for me.
I tried plain yogurt with xylitol but it didn't do the trick.0 -
Nuts or unsweetened nut butters? Since you can eat bananas, what about bananas dipped in unsweetened peanut or almond butter?1
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Well I am on a low carb diet, so I eat what they would call a moderate amount of protein, but since sticking to just protein without any carbohydrates with it, I have noticed my hunger decrease dramatically.. I could eat a HUGE plate of pasta and be hungry an hour later.. It just doesn't happen to me with this.
I can't see any reason why you couldn't up your protein more and stay within your calorie amounts very easily
If all else fails.. make lots and lots of sugar free jelly (jello) okay - not amazingly filling but its something to eat when you need to without the calories going up and up!1 -
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brichards2000 wrote: »Drink water before, after, and during meals to fill up quicker.
This is a pain but it does work for me. You get used to it, sort of! It's not the same as satiety from lots of food, but when I drink this much water I am less interested in eating.2 -
eileen0515 wrote: »Greek yogurt works for me.
I tried plain yogurt with xylitol but it didn't do the trick.
Eat the yogurt with a mashed banana or cashew butter or regular sugar (you only need a little sugar).
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Protein powder banana smoothie. Also hot tea always calms my cravings.0
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This might seem like a strange suggestion but it works everytime. Sleep. Take a nap. When I am sleep deprived I become an eating machine.7
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The only thing that helps me on hungry days ((assuming it's PMS related) is to avoid all kinds of refined sugars and flour, especially earlier in the day. Whole grains are fine though (and beans, if you can eat those?).2
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I'm an advocate of drinking more water too. Since I started ensuring I get my 2 litres throughout the day I'm much less hungry. It's a fact that we often mistake thirst for hunger and I definitely realise now that I've been dehydrated for a long time.1
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OP - what is your targeted daily protein macro?
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This is might be my wake up call to increase proteins. I'm trying to loose weight and stay on 1580 calories per day.
I'd like to see how much protein and fiber you eat. Would you please change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings and have one of the nutrients tracked be Fiber?
See also http://www.nutrition.org.uk/healthyliving/fuller/understanding-satiety-feeling-full-after-a-meal.html
Also, where are you in your menstrual cycle? When my appetite spikes up premenstrually, I honor it and eat at maintenance for a few days.
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I have found that neither carbs nor protein on their own keep me full. I need fat to stay full. Avocado helps me to feel full. I usually either dip vegetables in it or put it on toast for a filling snack.1
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If I have the calories available, I find eating a whole avocado fills me up for hours.0
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I'll play the dissenter. Hunger signals are to overweight people as airplanes are to UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy nuts. I would take a big step back and try to decide if the hunger you feel is ACTUALLY hunger. Are you thirsty in reality? Are you bored out of your mind? Those are the two big ones for me. When I get cray hungry (as opposed to based in reality hungry) I try to leave my house and go DO something. Window shop, take my kid somewhere. Anything to abate the boredom. Then I frequently find I wasn't so hungry after all and the problem is solved. When I'm wrong and I really was hungry, I treat myself to Daz Bog:) Maybe you could try.
I know this might come off like "you're not hungry I know better than you how you feel" but I really don't mean it that way, sometimes it's just a thing that doesn't occur to us. After all, constant "hunger" (read:boredom and lack of self control) is what got me overweight, so I have to check myself, and I can't be the only person to whom this applies.15 -
peanut butter, yogurt, meat, up the protein0
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when i am really hungry this is my quick fix
3 sugar free jello's ( volume for 15 calories only)
225 gram fat free yogurt ( 100 calories and lots of protein)
100 gram quinoa ( carbs and some protein , filling and 100 calories)
215 calories of goodies and i am stuffed. Its a big!!!! bowl lol
But this only when i am very very hungry. Normally i get hungry ( read getting an appetite) an hour before dinner or lunch. Then i just wait.
I wont die you know. People say quickly they are hungry, but as long as i feel good and not getting fatigue or feeling sick/strange or horrible...then it is appetite for me.
So i wait that hour before it is eating time( i eat 4 times a day. breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner, evening snacking so the time in between is never long)
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buffywhitney wrote: »
Poor you5 -
Ive been eating alot of carrots and celery0
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TavistockToad wrote: »buffywhitney wrote: »
Poor you
mine is close to this on non-workout days where i'm closer to 1,800. i know the feel of being a petite woman.
OP, my suggestion is the opposite of the above. i go for INSANE volume on low calorie fruits and veggies.
I'm talking a pound of greens, 2-3 cups of watermelon, a head of broccoli, a head of cauliflower, 3 or 4 heads of romaine, lots and lots of grapes, a whole cantaloupe, etc. I also load up on hot soups and broths (sipping broth is amazing), and low calorie foods like a whole box of sugar free jello/pudding.
When i start getting that insatiable hunger eating SO MUCH (without killing my calories) makes all the difference. I looked into your allergy and you can eat these:
Bananas
Grapefruit and lemons
Mangos and papayas
Pears
Rhubarb
Tangerines
Asparagus
Carrots
Fresh mushrooms
Green and wax beans
Greens
Lettuce, spinach, and other greens
Squash
beans
cabbage
peas
potato
These are all things you can eat in high quantity.
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Seltzer with my meals helps fill me up. Lentil soup (a lot of protein and fiber), 3 scrambled eggs cooked with butter or avocado oil and 2 bananas, Smoothie with honey yogurt and banana and any fruit you can eat (I also add chia seeds and kefir), celery with tuna and mayo, turkey rollups. Try to base your meals around protein and pile your plate with veg and some fruit. You could also try banana dipped in dark chocolate, if safe.1
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When I get like that I eat bananas and drink green tea. The tea tricks yourself into thinking you're having a hot meal, and the bananas fill you up!0
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Banana with peanut butter and drink your water and then some! Good luck!0
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rainbowbow wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »buffywhitney wrote: »
Poor you
mine is close to this on non-workout days where i'm closer to 1,800. i know the feel of being a petite woman.
OP, my suggestion is the opposite of the above. i go for INSANE volume on low calorie fruits and veggies.
I'm talking a pound of greens, 2-3 cups of watermelon, a head of broccoli, a head of cauliflower, 3 or 4 heads of romaine, lots and lots of grapes, a whole cantaloupe, etc. I also load up on hot soups and broths (sipping broth is amazing), and low calorie foods like a whole box of sugar free jello/pudding.
When i start getting that insatiable hunger eating SO MUCH (without killing my calories) makes all the difference. I looked into your allergy and you can eat these:
Bananas
Grapefruit and lemons
Mangos and papayas
Pears
Rhubarb
Tangerines
Asparagus
Carrots
Fresh mushrooms
Green and wax beans
Greens
Lettuce, spinach, and other greens
Squash
beans
cabbage
peas
potato
These are all things you can eat in high quantity.
Thank you, but I cannot eat most fruits and veggies due to food allergy.0
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