Feeling hungry- Day 1!

marciacameron13

Hi Everyone, so today is day 1. I’m feeling hungry but I know I can’t start to snack now or it will be game over. I’m happy I had a 60 minute workout and have stayed within my calories for the day. I think the first week is the hardest.

aacha0908

I heard that warm water helps to fill up your stomach and ice cold water helps to burn more calories. Try some warm tea when feeling hungry, it might help. Also, when I am feeling hungry and can't take it anymore I snack on negative calorie foods like cucumber, carrots, celery. Not the most delicious but helps 🙂 stay strong!

concordancia

Did you eat back your exercise calories? That is how MFP is designed.

The other tip is to work on figuring out which foods help you feel full. Generally, protein, fats and fiber help the most, but the actual ratios may vary.

goal06082021

aacha0908 wrote: »

I heard that warm water helps to fill up your stomach and ice cold water helps to burn more calories. Try some warm tea when feeling hungry, it might help. Also, when I am feeling hungry and can't take it anymore I snack on negative calorie foods like cucumber, carrots, celery. Not the most delicious but helps 🙂 stay strong!

Just so you're aware, "negative calories" aren't a thing. Cucumber and celery do absolutely have calories, and carrots are remarkably high in sugar for a vegetable. They ARE better options than cookies or chips, to be sure, but they do have some calories and you should log them. It does not burn more calories to chew those things than the foods themselves provide, that is a myth.

goal06082021

To address the OP - some part of this process will involve retraining your hunger signals. If you, like many people, tend to graze or nosh when you're bored or watching TV or the like, you've trained yourself to want to snack when you find yourself in that situation.

aacha0908

@goal06082021 How disappointing..It was my go-to for a few years now .. Thank you for comment! Love learning

yirara

How big is your calorie allowance, and what weight loss goal have you chosen? What is your current weight? There's also a possibility that you've chosen a too unrealistic goal. Sometimes slower is better, both to keep enough energy and for your mental wellbeing.

LoreleiLoreleiLorelei

I don't think you *need* to log those vegetables... I think if you leave it off your daily food plan you will be OK. Way more important to track hummus, honey, ranch etc. It takes about 10 cucumbers to be 300 calories. I mean... who is going to eat all that? Especially when you've already eaten ~900 calories that day??

janejellyroll

LoreleiLoreleiLorelei wrote: »

I don't think you *need* to log those vegetables... I think if you leave it off your daily food plan you will be OK. Way more important to track hummus, honey, ranch etc. It takes about 10 cucumbers to be 300 calories. I mean... who is going to eat all that? Especially when you've already eaten ~900 calories that day??

I can absolutely eat 100-200 calories worth of carrots in a sitting and that's enough to be relevant to my deficit, especially when you consider that they aren't the only vegetables that I eat.

The question isn't "Should I log vegetables instead of condiments?" People can choose to log both!

People who don't eat many vegetables will be fine not logging them, but when you're talking about a few hundred calories, that's absolutely something most people should be considering.

LoreleiLoreleiLorelei

I don't get hungry when I am on a calorie deficit, that is because I eat at least 100g of protein a day. I follow the anabolic diet. If I decide to go off track, I log what I eat and how it makes me feel. Especially when I am training to be better in my sport, how food makes me feel is very important to me. I can no longer eat cake, biscuits, doughnuts or any other carb-heavy food, because I will feel horrible. I keep track of what foods I ate that day that I am not feeling hungry and feel great. Then I try to incorporate a lifestyle change and eat those kinds of food every day.

rheddmobile

LoreleiLoreleiLorelei wrote: »

I don't think you *need* to log those vegetables... I think if you leave it off your daily food plan you will be OK. Way more important to track hummus, honey, ranch etc. It takes about 10 cucumbers to be 300 calories. I mean... who is going to eat all that? Especially when you've already eaten ~900 calories that day??

Absolutely it’s more important to log calorie dense foods such as salad dressing, but “not needing to log” small things is how some people find themselves not losing despite “really sticking to my 1200 calorie plan!” Even worse if the person doesn’t bother to log the ranch dressing they dipped the vegetables in,

Four 25 calorie servings of vegetables equals 100 calories. Someone small and sedentary on a tight budget may get only 12 of those per day.

Not to mention I can easily create a 300 calorie salad, made up of nothing but vegetables.

I don’t log tightly, but at this point I’ve been in maintenance for four years, I know roughly how much wiggle room to leave myself, and I weigh daily so I can make corrections if I notice a trend. For new people, it’s usually a good idea to log EVERYTHING for a while. Especially since the primary reason people don’t lose weight when calorie counting is dishonest logging. Obese people are good at making excuses around food, and one study found that people who claimed diets didn’t work for them failed to log almost 2/3 of calories.

LoreleiLoreleiLorelei

That's true. I think it is also helpful to log vegetables to remember what you eat each day and how you feel afterwards.