What do YOU eat on days when you feel like a bottomless pit?

I eat food. If I'm that hungry, my body is trying to tell me something.

This, buuuuuuut to have a glass of water first to see if you're really hungry or just feel like eating!

I'm so glad to see other people saying that they eat when they have days like this. It seriously only happens once a month, and it's not the time of the month you might think, but I'm having one of those days today. I've tried almost all of the "tricks", but it's not psychological. I'm just HUNGRY! I think I'm going to go have a big bowl of popcorn now. That seems to be the only thing that fills me up on days like today.

Eat.

When I am having sweet tooth cravings and want to eat everything in sight, I eat watermelon. It curbs my sweet tooth and you get a lot of "bang for your buck."

Chicken and lettuce. Makes me full fast.

I keep little boxes of frozen fruits (raspberries, blueberries, banana, mango, pineapple, blackberries) in my freezer at all times. If I'm between meals and wanting to snack, I'll grab one of them. They're good because I have good-sized boxes to make it a reasonable sized snack but I get nowhere near overeating. Also, as it's frozen, it takes me a good half hour to eat the whole box because my mouth is pretty sensitive to cold so I need to go reeeeally slow. As it's fruit, it's high in water and fibre and very low cal, so it's all pluses! My boxes are usually (depending on the fruit) 80-130g and 60-100 cals each.

I also keep diet Hanson's sodas in my fridge at all times. All natural, no caffeine, zero calorie sodas. They seem to be more carbonated than other sodas meaning they definitely make you feel fuller, and they taste really good, but don't have a ton of crap in them like most other diet sodas. Pair up one of these sodas with a box of blueberries and I'm satisfied for a good few hours, for only about 70 cals.

But running 10k just before made it a pretty easy choice too!

Well, my daughter just made this for the family so I had to try a piece tonight!

I don't know what to day... don't want to sabotage you, but on days when I am really really hungry, I listen to my body and eat. Then just try to start over the next day. I've lost 25 pounds so far, so it still has worked out for me.
It doesn't hurt to add in an extra work out, but sometimes that is a challenge too. listen to your body.

Shirataki noodles and protein.

I eat fruit and lots of it. Watermelon, grapes, anything that will be sweet and give me the illusion of having had a treat or being full.

Room temperature water. An entire pack of "dessert" gum. Peppermints. Chicken broth. Hot tea sweetened with a low calorie sweetener. Fresh fruits sweetened with a low calorie sweetener. Broccoli. More broccoli.

And recently, for those afternoon cravings, Snyder's of Hanover Honey Wheat Pretzel Sticks (8 to 16) with a room temperature diet coke. The combination of the really dry pretzels, which are salty and sweet, and the warm diet coke, which always seems to fill up my belly, is just satisfying. And eating 8 to 16 pretzels actually seems like a lot. By the time I get to the end of the serving, I am always thinking, I can't believe I have 3 or 4 more left, because my craving is satsified.

My bottomless pit time always seems to be after dinner and before bed....not good

Some days I do sooo well because my hunger is normal...It's all good. BUT THEN I have days when I just feel soooooo HUNGRY and it's like NOTHING satisfies me. How do YOU deal with those days?

What do you find yourself reaching for? Clearly your normal diet is lacking something.

I try to have a couple hard boiled eggs or maybe some almonds. I have days like this all the time. On Tuesdays, I have spin, body pump, and body combat and I seem to be hungry all day long. I try to stick to my normal eating, but you should replace what you burn on heavy cardio days. You want to make sure that you don't go too low because your body needs energy. I used to have a lot of trouble with this and think that the more I burned, the better I was doing. The fact of the matter is that your muscles need protein and when your caloric intake is too low, the protein is used for fuel instead of for repairing and building muscle. By going too low, you're actually slowing down your metabolism and preventing your muscles from growing or toning. Muscle burns calories just by existing and you should try and make sure that you eat enough to maintain tone. The benefit of this is longer term and will ultimately burn more calories.

If I am out of calories I eat dill pickles or cucumbers