Always hungry, always gaining weight.

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  • funkyspunky872
    funkyspunky872 Posts: 866 Member
    Forget the doctor, go see a nutritionist! :D
  • Minnoke
    Minnoke Posts: 26
    How much water are you drinking? You don't seem to be logging any and you should definitely be drinking around 2litres with all the fibre you eat. Fibre only works to keep you full (and regular, which might help the stomach issues) when it gets sufficient water so it can expand to 6 times it size (or weight? I don't remember). Definitely try drinking lots of water though.
  • Simone_King
    Simone_King Posts: 467 Member
    I been told that people mistake thrist for hunger.

    So, are you getting enough water?
  • honu18
    honu18 Posts: 294 Member
    Yes. I drink enough to go to the bathroom like at least every hour haha. Probably at least 3 to 4 liters a day.
  • graelwyn
    graelwyn Posts: 1,340 Member
    I suggest getting a good probiotic tablet, and taking that a few times a day with food, and also, taking an antacid like rennie after meals, as that can help also. As someone else said, you can mistake acid for hunger, and this is something my trainer suggested to me. The probiotics helped a lot with the bloating issues and can also help with candida which can cause cravings and various other issues. Short of that, I suggest eating at maintenance for a while, continuing with your exercise and maybe eating something high in protein every 4 hours to try and help for now, like cottage cheese, eggs, nuts etc.
  • Stuz359
    Stuz359 Posts: 81
    Your Protein settings are really low, you should be eating about double what you are most days.

    Also, looking at a fair few days (and I realise you have been switching things around in an attempt to solve your problem), you aren't actually eating much volume of food. Use salad as basically a free food, lettuce, cucumber, spinach, celery. You may think your hungry becuase you are just not eating that much, giving you an empty feeling.

    The other thing I noticed is that you are eating a lot of things with sugar in them. You get an instant hit in energy (spiked insulin) but pretty soon your body craves more. Try to substitute a brownie with a chicken salad sandwich on wholewheat bread, probably similar calories, but you will get more protein, more fibre and a dose of slow release carbs which will keep you fuller for longer and more satiated.
  • naturehed
    naturehed Posts: 1
    I am the same. Except it's not so much the weight I'm gaining that is the problem, as I am underweight and very skinny (or at least I was) and would love to gain something as I have (or at least used to have) a very high metabolism. It's more that I'm scared that being hungry every half-an-hour although I've just eaten isn't a good thing at all and perhaps it could be type 2 diabetes or something else. I have not been to the doctor yet but have read lots of stuff online and nothing seems to match my symptoms exactly. It's only been going on for the past three days but just before that I was tired all the time for a few days. I will note I started smoking just 5 a day for a week the week before and haven't had any since but I thought that this is so little it couldn't be the problem. It can't just be a fast metabolism, however, because I am indeed gaining weight which however good at the moment, will soon become a problem. I also recently suffered from depression and have social anxiety, so this could be the course and perhaps I have an eating disorder? I'm not sure.

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