I ate all my day's calories for breakfast because I was hungry.

tufntender

I totally get it. After successfully losing about 25 lb it all crept up on me again.. I decided to start logging in again. The breakfast alone I had that day was almost 700 cal. Don't even give these people, the naysayers a second of your thought.. I remember the last time I was here. there was a thread, where someone postured themselves up, saying how she couldn't understand how someone couldn't get 10,000 steps in. I was like wth. If one works all day, let's say a sedentary job, goes home, takes care of dinner, laundry dishes kids, house, bills, jeezom. I have a few daylight hours left and I can't do 10,000, probably not even 5,000

dontlikepeople

@tufntender Yep yep. Wake up, go to work, come home, make dinner, wash up, do a load of laundry or vacuum or whatever other house chore and BAM, time for bed. I wake up super early to walk before work now. It's the only way for me.

Shreyadr

Hi. I'll put in my opinion based on what I could understand from your post.
You are currently on an 800 calorie diet. You've lost weight several times. I assume you also regained weight several times. I didn't catch your gender. So based on your daily lifestyle which revolves around so many activities and chores(definitely not a sedentary lifestyle) and twice a day exercise routine, I am not surprised you feel ravenously hungry.
I feel you should fuel your body with much lower margin of calorie deficit. Such that you feel satiety and are healthy. Lack of food will make you more cranky.
We all look to lose weight or achieve our goals quickly(me too so I can relate) but I've failed a lot. So now I look back and imagine what it would be like if I had actually followed a sustainable approach in the past 2 years. I'd have easily achieved my goals.
Since this is a forum, I am expressing my opinion. You will obviously make the final call. Eating so less is not doing good to your body. Eating well will give you better results on working out.
I am presently on a sustainable diet and feel very satisfied whether or not the scale shifts.
All the best with your goals.

Nursie863

It's not you, that's the way your body is designed. Our bodies are built to survive, nothing else. When we are obese, our set point for weight that our body thinks we need for survival is much higher. When we lose weight our body is fighting to get back to that set point because it thinks we are in danger. Ghrelin levels increase in an effort to make you eat. Not fair, but it's just your body's survival mechanism that has gone a bit haywire. Set a sustainable deficit, and if every now and then you eat more than that, dust yourself off and get right back on it. Sustainability and persistence persevere in the end.

dontlikepeople

People in here doling out disagree reactions like it's a battle arena. Apparently this topic is sensitive for a lot of people.

I think there's just a lot of people out there that want to be like, "Not me, I'm NEVER hungry ever! Because everything I do is perfect!" despite all science saying they are wrong.

If you're never hungry: 1, you'd never be trying to lose weight, b/c you'd already be the "perfect" weight (you know, since you're never hungry), and 2. You need to write a book and make millions of dollars. There is a multi billion dollar fitness industry that caters specifically to people who are hungry and end up overweight.

cwolfman13

dontlikepeople wrote: »

People in here doling out disagree reactions like it's a battle arena. Apparently this topic is sensitive for a lot of people.

I think there's just a lot of people out there that want to be like, "Not me, I'm NEVER hungry ever! Because everything I do is perfect!" despite all science saying they are wrong.

If you're never hungry: 1, you'd never be trying to lose weight, b/c you'd already be the "perfect" weight (you know, since you're never hungry), and 2. You need to write a book and make millions of dollars. There is a multi billion dollar fitness industry that caters specifically to people who are hungry and end up overweight.

I think you're taking stuff way to personally here man. I don't think anyone said they were never hungry. I'm always hungry around my normal meal times. Also, people gain weight for a myriad of reasons. I didn't put on weight because I was vastly overeating. I was lean my entire life until I hit 30 and graduated university and started sitting at a desk all day vs being a very active person up until that point. It took me 8 years to put on about 40 Lbs...so about 5 Lbs per year. Had I remained even somewhat active during that time, my guess is that I would have been just fine.

I have experienced practically constant hunger before, but only when I've tried dipping below 12% BF...at 10% I want to gnaw my arm off. At a normal weight and BF% I am hungry at meal times and a bit peckish in the late afternoon for a snack. As I mentioned before, I think a lot of this has to do with losing a large chunk of weight (I never had to do that). Also, people are just different and wired different. I know quite a few people in my circle of friends who've never needed to lose weight and have never been overeaters.

dontlikepeople

> I think you're taking stuff way to personally here man.

Look at OTHER people's disagree reactions, not just me, my man. People are triggered.

paperpudding

dontlikepeople wrote: »

People in here doling out disagree reactions like it's a battle arena. Apparently this topic is sensitive for a lot of people.

I think there's just a lot of people out there that want to be like, "Not me, I'm NEVER hungry ever! Because everything I do is perfect!" despite all science saying they are wrong.

If you're never hungry: 1, you'd never be trying to lose weight, b/c you'd already be the "perfect" weight (you know, since you're never hungry), and 2. You need to write a book and make millions of dollars. There is a multi billion dollar fitness industry that caters specifically to people who are hungry and end up overweight.

No - people are using the disagree button as it was intended - to say they disagree with something.

Not sure where you are getting this battle arena out of that or that it is a sensitive topic.

Nor have I seen anyone say they are never hungry of they are perfect - you are reading conclusions into the disagree button that are just not there.

although actually I wasnt particularly hungry when losing weight - I set my pace at 1/2 lb per week, changed some things (like cut out sugary drinks) and some mindless snacking and increased my activity level.

I didnt very that much change the volume of food I ate.

Of course that is just my individual story - may not be yours just as yours may not be mine. - but we were both trying to lose weight.

AnnPT77

dontlikepeople wrote: »

> I think you're taking stuff way to personally here man.

Look at OTHER people's disagree reactions, not just me, my man. People are triggered.

I also think you're reading too much into the "disagrees". Each click means someone disagrees with something about the post, and - unless they comment - we don't know what. (Exceptions: Sometimes a single disagree happens when someone's scrolling on a phone, accidentally clicks "disagree". I've done that, saw it, fixed it; I've probably done it without seeing it, too. It's the only logical explanation of some disagrees. Besides that, some people - trying to be puckish, I guess - will click "disagree" on purpose on most any post that they see that mentions disagree clicks.)

IMO, this isn't a "battle arena", and a disagree click isn't some kind of mortal wound. I've been here for going on 7 years, post often. I have over 1100 disagrees. If I thought those were mortal wounds, I'd be dead by now, or at least psychologically broken.

That's not it: It's that in an admittedly ridiculous huge posting history, someone (in a site with many thousands of users) has disagreed with me 1100+ times. I can live with that, very comfortably.

If I get multiple disagrees on a single post, especially if the same post has fewer positive reactions, I use it as a prompt to consider whether I've been unclear, or unkind, or something like that. If I think I have, I'll try to clarify, or sometimes have apologized. Otherwise, I just go on with life.

I'd encourage you not to interpret disagrees so dramatically. 🤷‍♀️