Low Calorie Foods and Lack of Hunger

justcallmeruby
justcallmeruby Posts: 2 Member
edited January 3 in Health and Weight Loss
Hey All! So I've recently noticed a new habit I've been forming. Since I replace one of my meals with a Salad, I generally end up eating an extreme amount less of calories than my daily recommends intake. THEN add to the fact that I burn about 300-500 per workout I know have even less calories. However, I'M NOT HUNGRY!

I find that I can eat 4-5 meals a day that will keep me full but will be extremely low in calories. And even though after I workout I eat, and I still have a large surplus of calories.

Does this happen to anyone? Any tips?

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  • SomeoneSomeplace
    SomeoneSomeplace Posts: 1,094 Member
    There are a lot of threads here about this but maybe open your diary so people can see if you're looking for specific reccomendations geared toward you

    Are you adding protein to your salads? Chicken, Eggs, Salmon even Steak...or do a salad with black beans, avacado, cheese, corn, tortilla strips etc

    My guess is mentally you're trying to eat as little possible and constantly eating "Diet" foods and not getting the nutrition you need.

    Add higher calorie snacks, nuts, avacado, full fat yogurt, peanut crackers, peanut butter, banana, smoothies, hummus, granola...

    The reason you prolly don't feel hungry is bc you're slowing down your mertabolsim down to a crawl
  • justcallmeruby
    justcallmeruby Posts: 2 Member
    Thanks for your response! I'll take a look in the threads :) I opened my diary just in case. I'm recently vegan so I eat lots of greens and vegetables. For protein I eat soybeans and greens w/proteins.

    I usually stay away from fad "diet" foods though cus they're super processed. It's just frustrating 'cause after that AND 8 glasses of h20 a day im never hungry!
  • Motleybird
    Motleybird Posts: 119 Member
    When I was getting used to low calorie foods, I was hardly ever hungry. Then I started adding small things here and there through the day to get up to where I should have been calorie-wise. That's when I got hungry. I had to turn around from trying to fit more calories in, to trying not to go over with night time snacks.

    I'm not sure why that is, but just throwing my experience on the pile. I don't think that having your hunger shut down on too little calories sounds good though.
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