Help I’m hungry all the time

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  • davidylin
    davidylin Posts: 228 Member
    I am hungry right now. My body is fairly smart and cannot be tricked. It knows when it has enough calories to play with and when I'm not filling up. Through practice and time I've habituated myself to keeping to my calorie goals. Dieting to lose weight is very hard. This community will be here to support you and some of their tips will end up helping you find ways to deal with the problems.

    My advice for you is this: it's ok in dieting not to be perfect, to stumble, to fall. Pick yourself up at the earliest opportunity and keep trying. Don't overdo things unless you are a paragon of discipline and self-punishment. Ease into exercise and slowly increase the intensity and duration from where you are able to cope with it. The same goes with lowering your intake of food. Taper, taper, taper. Get to know yourself really well and you may find out what will work for you.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    eatyogarun wrote: »
    MFP tells me 1200 as well if I plug in my numbers and like you, that leaves me really hungry. I decided to figure out how many calories I would need to sustain me at my goal weight and I eat those. I realize my weight will come off slower than I'd like but I am OK with that. It's a better alternative than doing nothing or being very hungry. (I realize this might be still be too low of a number for people with more weight to lose, so in that case you could start eating for an intermediate goal and adjust down as you lose.)

    Or you can lower the weekly weight loss goal and use that instead...
    Or you can move a bit more and eat exercise calories.
  • cbelc2
    cbelc2 Posts: 762 Member
    Protein, fiber, and fat are very satiating. Wait 20 minutes before seconds. My trick is to leave off added sugars and refined carbohydrates for 24 hours to stop the cravings. As long as I don't add those things back, I have control.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    toretty wrote: »
    Hello It’s my first time posting I need advice on my journey... i been dieting for ever . I been always overweight, now I want to make changes on my life style because of health my knees hurt my back and I don’t want to gain anymore weight. I’m 5’3 225 lbs, last year I had my baby he’s 1 yr old now and still not loosing my baby weight I’m always hungry sometimes I can control myself but when I’m feeling down or in my period I just can’t stop eating makes me feel so good, I need an advice how to control myself on those days i exercise some times walking or do cardio but then I stop I’m really wanna change my life but I can’t .. my husband love to eat too and that don’t helps a lot please tell me joe do you control your appetite o need to lose and I need advice tricks or some help ... thank you

    The bolded section suggests you are really hungry, you just want to eat. There is a difference and learning it may be important for you. If you are eating for comfort rather than hunger then eating more satiating foods may not help at all. You need to find way to comfort yourself other than food.

    It's not easy but it can be done. Set a reasonable goal of slow weight loss to minimize true hunger. Allow yourself treats, but don't rely on treats for happiness. Your baby needs you to take care of yourself. You are so important!

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