How Quick was the hunger change?

stork32

Ive dieted in the past, and I know that there comes a point where you are comfortable eating less....and you're no longer as hungry as when you first started...but Ive always lost weight from exercise only and/or from an eating disorder.

I recently started eating healthy and making positive changes. I always fail around friday. Because I AM SUPER HUNGRY AND just give in.

How long did it take you to get "used to" or find the "new lifestyle" "normal?"

jynxxxed

Never. I just eat a ton still, but lower calorie/healthier options usually.

ChristyRunStarr

Are you eating enough? I know when I first started I wasn't so I was always super hungry. Then I upped my calories and I was fine (and still losing) I noticed on your page that you love lifting, another thing that makes me hungier than normal! If you haven't already, check out helloitsdan's post: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

EvanKeel

I like to compare it being on nitrous at the dentist's. I was still in a fair amount of pain I just didn't care as much. I'm still freaking hungry all the time, I just focus on it a little less over time.

I didn't really notice a change for about 2-3 weeks.

Firefox7275

Hunger tends to occur as a sign you are not eating enough calories, food bulk or of specific nutrients - if you are super hungry then you are likely doing it wrong. Fill yourself up with huge piles of non starchy vegetables, low sugar fruits, lean proteins, other fibre rich foods, small portions of other healthy fats. Concentrate more on what you can and should eat for health than what you cannot or should not.

yo_andi

Are you eating enough? Reason I ask is that I was also an athlete for most of my life, and once I got a grownup job and started living like a grownup I packed on some weight... I guess you really can't eat the same way you did during the season once you're working a sedentary job and only getting a little bit of exercise a few times a week :laugh: Then, once you have to take the weight off, you tend to eat way too little to fuel your (admittedly) sedentary lifestyle plus whatever exercise you do during the week. And you end up feeling low energy and starving and grumpy and like I can't stick with this because I'll end up in jail for homicide if I don't get something to eat now RAWR!

stork32

And you end up feeling low energy and starving and grumpy and like I can't stick with this because I'll end up in jail for homicide if I don't get something to eat now RAWR!

*sigh* this is a very true statement.

I will read the link that was sent to me and look at how much Im eating....

Thanks for all the tips.

yoovie

It took me a long time to build up to eating enough, to getting over that 1300 calorie hump and up to just under 2000 calories. But it happened. Of course some days I'll still cap out at like 1000 cals worth of alcohol and that's it for the day- but if you can crap out on Friday then I can just skip eating on Mondays and Wednesdays :P

canadiandee

I'm gonna say about 3 weeks. But I think a part of that is\was just a recognition of the difference between just wanting to eat and actually being hungry (for me, anyway). I've gone a decade with never really being hungry.

cyberiarob

Never. I just eat a ton still, but lower calorie/healthier options usually.

^ This! I think I eat more volume of food now than when I ate fast-food 3 times a day.

3005newkid

Such a hard thing to discern between being actually hungry and just wanting to put something in your mouth!

stork32

This is very true