Help.....Can't eat all my calories!!

Michellerw1

Someone mentioned this in a similar thread, but be sure to count cooking oils, seasonings, etc. Little things like that add up!

lutzsher

Eat breakfast

Find that really hard as start work far to early to be contemplating food...but I do try...occasionally!!!

My husband starts work at 6am and has to leave the house by 5:30 at the latest. It was hard for him to eat that early but you get used to it. He now eats an entire grapefruit, and either 2 pieces of toast with natural peanut butter or 1 cup of Special K with milk and 1 cup of berries. It is a good start to the day and one that will do wonders in repairing your metabolism . . . so I agree with a few other comments . . . eat breakfast!!!

A good rule of thumb . . .
eat breakfast like a king
lunch like a prince
and dinner like a pauper . . . with snacks throughout, of course!

LotusF1ower

Try eating more pizza, It works for me. Cookies are also a good source for calories! Chips, doughnuts, cake, ice cream...

Eating that sort of crap is what got many of us here in the first place!!

This is supposed to be a lifelong eating change - anybody that intends to eat all that sort of rubbish for the rest of their lives is asking to be permanently on and off diets. Lose the weight, pile it on, lose the weight, pile it on....

LotusF1ower

I am having a nightmare....I am finding it really difficult to eat all of my daily calories, which means I am not kick starting my metabolism and always be in starvation mode..........I have managed to go above my intake once, but that was because I pigged out on rubbish food!!! Has anyone got any ideas of what I can do so I have successful weight loss?

Cheers :happy:

You are hardly short at all and certainly nothing to worry about! You will not go in starvation mode, regardless of getting that message everytime you register your food at the end of the day, on the amount you are short.

Continue as you are and do not worry about such a small shortage! You'll be absolutely fine. :flowerforyou:

tjbeer

Thanks guys for all your tips and advice, much apreciated. Lets see if these little changes make a difference.

Tx

:flowerforyou:

robin52077

Eat breakfast

Find that really hard as start work far to early to be contemplating food...but I do try...occasionally!!!

My husband starts work at 6am and has to leave the house by 5:30 at the latest. It was hard for him to eat that early but you get used to it. He now eats an entire grapefruit, and either 2 pieces of toast with natural peanut butter or 1 cup of Special K with milk and 1 cup of berries. It is a good start to the day and one that will do wonders in repairing your metabolism . . . so I agree with a few other comments . . . eat breakfast!!!

A good rule of thumb . . .
eat breakfast like a king
lunch like a prince
and dinner like a pauper . . . with snacks throughout, of course!

I agree with all this.

I am up at 3:30 so I can cook and eat a full breakfast, and leave the house by 5.
Sometimes egg whites with salsa, turkey sausage and wheat toast and a yogurt,
sometimes oatmeal with raisins and nuts in it,
sometimes just toast with peanut butter and a yogurt or some berries on the side, if I sleep till 4 and don't have time to actually cook,
but I ALWAYS get an actual breakfast in me before I leave for work.

I have noticed a huge difference in my energy since I started doing this 4 months ago. You won't miss the extra half hour of sleep once your body gets used to it, the fuel will give you natural energy and you'll feel like you slept even more than you used to! It takes a week or so to get used to, but if you go to bed a little earlier it will be an easy transition.