Having difficulty eating enough!!

189andFalling

Hi,

So I've been tracking for 10 days now. My BMR is 1800 and I work from home at the computer so a 1.2x multiplier seems reasonable = 2160 calories per day.

I've been tracking to 1400 per day (so 760 defect) and I've thinking of going a little higher than that (31 year old male) to perhaps 1600-1800, being healthy and all that!

My 'problem' is I'm eating very cleanly so on my exercise days my defect is much higher... but I feel stuffed to the point I don't want to eat anymore and not hungry at all! Take yesterday as an example. I ate the foods below, higher carbs than usual, but struggled to hit my goal + exercise. I ate approx 1650-1700 calories (what isn't on there is an energy gel and a naughty shot of Gin before bed ).

Daily Goal : 2146 (I cycled @ 16mph average for 80 minutes).

Breakfast Calories Carbs Fat Protein
Generic - Skimmed Milk, 300 ml 105 15 1 11
Quaker Oats - Poridge, 75 g 272 45 6 8
Dancing Day Honey - Honey, 1 Tbspn (21g) 64 17 0 1
Add Food Quick Tools 441 77 7 20
Co-Op Healthy Living - Chicken Tikka Masala With Rice, 400 g 345 46 8 26
Waitrose Essential - Chicken Breast Fillet, 350 g 385 0 2 85
Add Food Quick Tools 730 46 10 111
the Co-Operative - Organic Brown Rice, 70 g 235 50 1 6
Sainsbury's - Toasted Sesame Oil, 7.5 ml 62 0 7 0
Add Food Quick Tools 297 50 8 6
Sainsbury's Be Good to Yourself - Cottage Cheese With Pineapple, 125 gram serving 110 13 2 11

The thing is I've somehow put all this weight on in the first place!!! I think to be fair that my volume was the same but I was eating 'bad' foods that my body quite happily shuffled into fat.

Perhaps I just need more time to get used to an increase in food 'volume' even if it's healthy!

HonkyTonks

You could try adding some of these healthier calorie dense foods into your diet;

Nuts / peanut butter
Avocado
Olive oil
dark chocolate
Potatos
Dried fruit
Whole grain pasta

Also, using full cream milk instead of skim would add in some calories, things like that here and there can help.

Also, don't be afraid to eat something you consider "unhealthy" either, it's not going to make you gain weight if it's in your calorie allowance.

lilojoke

You could try adding some of these healthier calorie dense foods into your diet;

Nuts / peanut butter
Avocado
Olive oil
dark chocolate
Potatos
Dried fruit
Whole grain pasta

Also, using full cream milk instead of skim would add in some calories, things like that here and there can help.

Also, don't be afraid to eat something you consider "unhealthy" either, it's not going to make you gain weight if it's in your calorie allowance.

Higher caloric foods are your friends in this case as HonkyTonks states. Also eating a little less protein and more fat works too as fat has 9 calories per gram... good fats though!