Ravenous!
slytherinlass90
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Bloody hell I cannot feel full! I'm so hungry. I had a fish stirfry with tonnes of veg and lentils but was still hungry... had a bowl of cereal.... still hungry. I AM under my regular calorie intake but only just and I am ready to go eat the farmers dairy house! Any stomach filling ideas? Also had a big cup of water too
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How many calories are you eating?0
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And are you skimping on fat?2
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Way more than normal and yes I'm eating lean. Yesterday I ate 830, before that 1215, and before 1150
Today: 879
I am eating about 3 times what I normaly would (only been "dieting" a week now)0 -
Things that help me feel satisfied...
At least 48oz water
Protein/carb/fat with each meal
7-8hrs of sleep (less causes stress hormones to rise causing one to feel hungrier)
I will also add that eating more frequent smaller meals makes me ravenous too. So I eat only a brunch and early dinner with some snacks.
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slytherinlass90 wrote: »Way more than normal and yes I'm eating lean. Yesterday I ate 830, before that 1215, and before 1150
Today: 1308
Why are you eating so little? I'd be hungry too if I was regularly below or right at the minimum recommended for a woman.10 -
More protein. More (good) fats. Those will fill you up.3
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Need to eat at least 1200 calories a day. Plus you are just getting used to this. You need to redefine the feeling of full which will take a bit of time.1
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slytherinlass90 wrote: »Way more than normal and yes I'm eating lean. Yesterday I ate 830, before that 1215, and before 1150
Today: 879
I am eating about 3 times what I normaly would (only been "dieting" a week now)
This is why you're ravenous. Continue to underfeed yourself like this and it will lead to a straight up binge. You'll possibly end up continuing to binge for days and undo any progress you've made thus far. Is there a reason why you're eating so little below the recommended intake aside from falsely believing that less is automatically better?8 -
janejellyroll wrote: »slytherinlass90 wrote: »Way more than normal and yes I'm eating lean. Yesterday I ate 830, before that 1215, and before 1150
Today: 1308
Why are you eating so little? I'd be hungry too if I was regularly below or right at the minimum recommended for a woman.
Because I'm eating 3 times where I'm used to eating 1 time
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I also don't get much physical exercise as I'm disabled I do what I can but it's no where near as much as most people would burn off
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What does this mean? Are you saying that you have been eating only 830 - 1215 calories per day for the last four days? If so, that's the most obvious reason you're hungry.slytherinlass90 wrote: »Way more than normal and yes I'm eating lean. Yesterday I ate 830, before that 1215, and before 1150
Today: 879
I am eating about 3 times what I normaly would (only been "dieting" a week now)
What does this mean? Are you saying that you are eating 3 meals per day now and 1 meal per day before? I can't see you are answering Jane's question (a good one).slytherinlass90 wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »slytherinlass90 wrote: »Way more than normal and yes I'm eating lean. Yesterday I ate 830, before that 1215, and before 1150
Today: 1308
Why are you eating so little? I'd be hungry too if I was regularly below or right at the minimum recommended for a woman.
Because I'm eating 3 times where I'm used to eating 1 time2 -
slytherinlass90 wrote: »I also don't get much physical exercise as I'm disabled I do what I can but it's no where near as much as most people would burn off
You still have to eat enough. Even in a coma, you'd burn calories. An overweight person burns more calories than a normal weight person.2 -
Not just 4 days it's been a week but yes before hand I was eating 1 meal (dinner) of the same or similar size but carb heavy0
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I've also felt satisfied (full) with the ammount of food I've eaten each day till today where I want to eat a horse0
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I've stopped having sugar in my (fore was aprox 8 cups a day with 2 sugars now it 3-5 no sugard going di at mid day so eating to try help the world stop spinning)
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If you are tracking correctly, the situation is even worse than it sounded before.slytherinlass90 wrote: »Not just 4 days it's been a week
This doesn't mean anything?but yes before hand I was eating 1 meal (dinner) of the same or similar size
This also doesn't mean anything, and it's even absurd as what you described you ate in the OP is almost pure carbs.but carb heavy3 -
Anytime that I have eaten at a deficit I needed to give my body time to get use to the change. Normally the first week or so is the hardest, however it does get easier. If you are use to always feeling full or content (like when you eat at maintenance or when gaining) those feelings maybe lost for awhile. The best I can hope for while eating at a deficit is content.
I know, not very helpful, but it gets easier.0 -
Seriously? You could lose weight and be happy at probably 1800 calories. Why are you undereating?3
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slytherinlass90 wrote: »I've also felt satisfied (full) with the ammount of food I've eaten each day till today where I want to eat a horse
That's because you have filled your belly, but eventually hunger will catch up with you. (Didn't it occur to you to eat more when you found yourself hungry?)1 -
Even my totally disabled 145lb son maintains his weight on 1500 cal/day. (Which we know with some precision because we feed him an enteral formula through a tube.) You're not eating enough.6
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You are hungry because if your numbers are correct, you are under-eating.
Can you open your diary? Are you using a food scale?2 -
You're ravenous because you're starving your body of much needed nutrition. Why are you so severely undereating? You're NOT feeling satisfied with the amount of food you're eating or you wouldn't be feeling this way. This is your body telling you it's not getting enough calories.1
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Can you please open your diary, OP?
Also, how are you determining that you eat 750-1200 calories? Do you weigh all your food or do you eyeball/use cups and spoons?
If you are, indeed, eating that little and tracking your food correctly, you seriously need to eat more. At least 1200 calories. You can consume up to your TDEE (maintenance) and not have a true fat gain. The amount of calories that you're consuming is contributing to your hunger unnecessarily. A toddler consumes more....1 -
slytherinlass90 wrote: »Way more than normal and yes I'm eating lean. Yesterday I ate 830, before that 1215, and before 1150
Today: 879
I am eating about 3 times what I normaly would (only been "dieting" a week now)
Not a formula for long term success OP. Of course you are going to be starving and overeat, and of course that will wipe out the deficit you created. Trying plugging your stats into MFP and doing as it says including eating back exercise calories.1 -
OP you're creating a perfect storm for a Binge-Restrict cycle. Your undereating is going to catch up with you big time.
Do you want to lose weight? Do you want to keep it off? If yes, then start eating an appropriate amount of food. It's not just calories you're depriving your body of, but essential nutrients too.
If i remember correctly, around 1000 calories per day is the recommended amount for a toddler..2 -
Undereating catches up to you in just a few days. As you have seen, the first few days are ok but then your ravenous and you will likely binge. Maintaining undereating is extremely difficult. This is what leads anorexics to become bulimic and purge. They chronically undereat until their body is screaming for calories/nutrients and then binge because the body is demanding it. Then they attempt to purge in any number of unhealthy methods and boom horrid cycle of binging and restricting. Don't think it can't happen to you if you are normal weight or overweight, because it can and will.
My suggestion to you, is obviously to eat more. However perhaps look into a weekly calorie goal instead of daily. It helps me and it follows a more natural way of eating. So some days I eat 1,000 calories, some I eat 2,500. I just make sure I'm creating an overall deficit weekly to still lose weight without always eating the exact same 1500 calories a day. This allows for couch potato days (1,000 calories) and heavy exercise or PMS 2,500 calorie days.4 -
I'll happily open my diary as I do want constructive criticism. How do I do it?
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slytherinlass90 wrote: »I'll happily open my diary as I do want constructive criticism. How do I do it?
This attitude is great!
There are quite a few people here that know their stuff. I've been on here 8 months and I'm still learning!!1 -
Think its open now! and to answer an earlier question I'm guesstimating the measurments and using Spoons, cups and packets where possible.0
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You are continuing to under eat, as already stated, you are setting yourself up for binging. Eat a reasonable amount of food, take care of your body and give it what it needs to be healthy.1
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