eating very healthy, exercising regularly, gaining weight, always hungry

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  • HoneyBadger302
    HoneyBadger302 Posts: 2,070 Member
    edited March 2019
    If I'm eating at maintenance or below (aka in a deficit to lose), I am hungry. A LOT.

    I mostly blame this on the fact that, into my early 30's, I was very active, had very active jobs, and spent a lot of time on my feet doing physical labor. I could basically eat what I wanted, and easily maintained my weight on close to 3,000 calories a day.

    I got a desk job, hobbies changed, and the physical labor went away. My appetite, however, has yet to adjust very well. I can feel satisfied after a meal, but I am definitely hungry long before it's actually time to eat again. Oh, and it's been over 8 years since I got my first desk job....

    Drinking lots of water helps - and I found that I do much better with fizzy water rather than flat. This helps with the "boredom" eating.

    I've added a fair number of steps to most of my days to up my TDEE.

    I'm still hungry most days. This is something I've just had to learn to accept. I'm going to be hungry 1-2 hours after I eat, and a small snack won't satisfy. So, I just accept that this is the case.

    As for exercise, steady state cardio makes me very hungry, but I do better on more varying and weight lifting type workouts and my increased hunger is more in line with the increased activity.

    Maybe you're just going to have to get used to being hungry? Or experiment with some different eating patterns, not necessarily reducing your overall intake, but you may find it easier to eat less with a different eating pattern. I find higher protein, volume from veggies, some (but not a major portion of my calories) carbs, and making sure I get enough fat in my diet to be pretty essential to maintaining a deficit and not being *I can't focus* hungry.

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