I feel like I've never eaten more!

SpecialSundae
SpecialSundae Posts: 795 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm feeling like an absolute pig. I'm eating healthy; trying to meet my protein macros; having lots of vegetables... Yet, I feel like I'm eating way more than I used to. I'm having a good breakfast, large-ish lunch and good dinner plus morning and evening snacks and sometimes even pudding at night... Yet I'm usually under my calorie targets.

I'm sure there are others out there. Any stories?

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  • drmerc
    drmerc Posts: 2,603 Member
    try more calorie dense food like poptarts and peanut butter
  • marycmeadows
    marycmeadows Posts: 1,691 Member
    eat calorie dense foods like avocado or nuts. that will help. but you are eating more because you're eating healthier stuff. funny how that works huh. and so many people think they have to starve themselves to lose weight! idiots.
  • DrMAvDPhD
    DrMAvDPhD Posts: 2,097 Member
    Without eating pure junk food, 2000 calories a day is plenty filling for me (what it takes to maintain my weight). I got fat because I was eating at restaurants and consuming empty calories like regular pop way too often.
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    So you have an emotional attachment to not eating?
  • lacurandera1
    lacurandera1 Posts: 8,083 Member
    I love eating. Even more on days when I can put away 3000 calories. Sorry. No stories here.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I feel like I'm eating more than ever before... and I'm loving every minute of it! :love:

    I used to think I had to deprive myself to lose weight and keep it off and I'm happy as a cat in a pool of sunshine that I was wrong.
  • Wwonderful
    Wwonderful Posts: 145
    I love eating. Even more on days when I can put away 3000 calories. Sorry. No stories here.
    Love this!!!
  • SpecialSundae
    SpecialSundae Posts: 795 Member
    So you have an emotional attachment to not eating?

    Not at all. I love food. Sometimes I just feel stuffed.

    It isn't even like I didn't eat pretty healthily before. I just treated myself to sweets and takeaways too often.
  • nmzeta
    nmzeta Posts: 381 Member
    I agree with the nuts and avocado suggestion. Also add some beans to your diet.
  • sarahisme18
    sarahisme18 Posts: 574 Member
    It's psychological, just like morebean pointed out. If it wasn't, you wouldn't 'feel like a pig' :frown:

    I can relate to those feelings, though. There are days when I feel like that, and then I log... and realize I'm under my goal—sometimes by so much that I NEED to get more food, regardless of how much of a piggy I feel like. So I have to really make an effort to tell myself the truth of the matter: I am not a pig, and I was eating well, and staying under my goal, and no shame.

    Mind over matter. Let go of how you 'feel' and let your actions and judgments come from knowledge of the facts! That's what the diary is for. :flowerforyou:

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