Stomach Rumbling, Do I eat?

having 5 hours gaps between breakfast and until you get a break your bound to be hungry, if you dont want to have any extra calories i wouldnt eat inbetween and if your only just starting this your likely to get past that hungry stage after a couple of weeks (i know i always do) i dont know if you stomach shrinks or what ever, unless you stop doing the plan your on and eat lower calorie foods more often

Stomach rumbling is often a good sign.... stomach is shrinking.

However if you also feel a bit light headed with the low cals, then perhaps your target weight is too low. Maybe have a bag of apples to keep in reserve as in between snacks? (Or something else that you like that requires chewing and time to eat but not too many calories - carrot sticks?)

Also remember drinks are your friend. Personally I love hot drinks - tea, coffee or a coffee substitute called Bambu. Make it, sit down at computer or with book and drink it slowly. Often that is enough to dispel the hunger.

I sometimes do fast days (where I just eat an evening meal) but then I'm not working & due to illhealth cannot exercise much. I find it is easier to do this than to restrict every day and every meal. Then I can eat a bit more at other times..... Remarkably the fast days are not hard to do - once you remember that your stomach telling you, that you will DIE without food is just plain wrong! LOL!

Good luck with it, you sound very committed, but I'm guessing that if the rumbling is still going on after 3 weeks that maybe you are aiming too low?

This might help explain why your stomach is grumbling: http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/digestive/stomach-growling1.htm

I can't eat any earlier in the morning unfortunately, I get to work at 7am and work through till 10am, sometimes later. The only time I can eat more often is between 3:30 and bedtime when Im not working.

But its all the time, I had a snack of dried cranberry, apple and sultanas around 4pm, its 5:20pm and my stomach is going nuts. This is when Im sitting at home and could eat anything I wanted if I didn't have the willpower. Its like I can't think of anything else though!

Ive been doing this about 3 weeks so far and I did it for a few months before that but had to stop because I couldn't afford it for a while. I never got used to it then either.

I just calculated my basal metabolic rate, apparently I burn over 1400 calories just sitting here doing nothing O_o surely that can't be right. It was recommended that I go on the 1200 calorie plan but that only had 2 snacks instead of 3 so it was even worse. I have a pretty active job so I wouldn't be eating near enough right? That sounds crazy...

yea thats right 1400 cals doing nothing, thats why you can eat under that in calories and lose weight alone by just doing that but lose more when you excersize, burning the extra calories my bmr is around 1500, try drinking green tea 0 calories and it stops my hunger

I don't know anything about the particular brand of food you are eating, but the premade diet foods are notoriously low in healthy fats and protein and have an abundance of processed carbohydrates. Fat and protein make you feel full longer because they are digested more slowly and don't cause insulin spikes like refined carbs. I know it is time consuming but you'll be so much better off preparing your own food.

If Im burning 1400 cal by not doing a thing and eating 1500 cal, plus my busy job where I am on my feet almost 8 hours straight and .5 to 1 hour exercise, why isn't the weight falling off? =( In 3 weeks Ive only lost 1kg and that could just be a fluctuation

if you eat 500 calories less then your bmr (without any kind of excersize) you should lose a lb a week, i always lose alot more even when im not excersing, usually around 2/3lb a week some times more if i excersize a lot but id advise you up your intake if you are excersizing

http://www.everydayhealth.com/weight/boost-weight-loss-by-knowing-your-bmr.aspx

Stomach rumbling is often a good sign.... stomach is shrinking.

Your stomach doesn't shrink

http://women.webmd.com/pharmacist-11/stomach-problems

I get that too, I used to have cereal in the morning and I'd be starving when it hit 10:30. Most cereals are not very good in terms of healthiness and they are full of bad stuff - except for the wholesome porridge.

I 've been having a boiled egg in the morning with a tomato for a week now, that keeps me going until about 12 and I would have soup with ryvitas for lunch - that would keep me going until about 4 and my stomach starts to rumble again so I would snack on a few carrots, celery or those triangle of cheese in a packet and then i get home about 6 to have my 400 calories dinner. I have cups of tea and water through out the day. but by 10 my stomach starts rumbling again then I might have another cup of tea with a biscuit and then that would be it for the day.

like what everyone's been saying - your body will stop feeling hungry after like 2 weeks and eat more nutritious food to keep yourself going.

Good luck i hope you've found your way of dieting.

are you drinking enough? make a big effort to drink 8 glasses of water min. before during and after meqls esp