Help!!

How are your eating? What is your daily schedule like? This is how I eat every day:

7:30 - 8 Breakfast
9:30 - 10 Snack
11:30 - 12 Lunch
2:30 - 3 Snack this is the worst part of my day and I snack on a 3 cups of popcorn because i can pick at it plus I have another snack
5:50 - 6 Dinner
8 - 8:30 Snack

I also exercise no less that 450 calories a day and I eat most of those.

Inability to feel satiated could be acoria.

you really need more protein in your program, and have a big relish tray ready for those munchies you maybe having. I think cooked veggies are more filling. Not sure what your eating but hang in there and remember why your doing this, also drink 8 to 12 glasses of water, it helps fill you up!

wow I just peeked at what your eating, leave the little debbies and ranch dressing alone! Those 2 little things added up to over 600 calories for 600 calories you could have have chicken, 6-10 cups of veggies, a cup or rice or potatoes. You really need to enter your food in the day before, It will really help you know what your eating tomorrow and this way you will know how many calories everything is, try to stay under so at the end of the day you have some leeway for the evening snack. Let me know If I can help more, not sure if your new to this, but it sure looks that way. Make better choices! Also remember why your doing this, set goals and rewards (not food) for your achievements. Also start eating breakfast, its the most important meal of the day. Some egg beaters and low calorie bread, make a large omelet with lots of veggies, that alone is way under 250 calories. Good Luck to you!

Well, I took a look at your food diary. Try eating more filling things. Instead of the oatmeal cream pie, try a Special K meal bar with a glass of milk. They are really great and about 120 calories and the milk with it really fills you up. In the morning, say with your coffee, try adding in some yogurt. It's only 100 calories but it filling and helps keep you fuller until you are ready for lunch. At lunch time add a salad with your meal. If you like a creamier dressing, try Hidden Valley Ranch light. It takes exactly like ranch but a lot less fat, carbs, and calories. Try and keep each meal the same amount of calories. Rather then having one big meal that consumes most of your calories, try eating a little at at time. This way your body stays full pretty much all day long. I wish you luck on your journey. Remember - you can do it. And we are here to help you do it!!

can anyone tell me if my times for meals are good?? I really can not do anything about the 12am on because that is when everyone eat dinner around here. It is useally around 11pm to 12am we all eat at once. but i might need to fix that once i get in to the grove of getting up earlier in the morning not to earlier though i will work my way up there

Your breakfast, lunch, dinner can be any time that fits you. But breakfast is shortly after you wake up, then have a snack, then lunch, then snack, etc etc. Just because I am stupid enough to be up before 6am does not mean you have to be lol Go with what works with your "awake" time

Every minute that I'm not productive, doing a little something... I get hungry.

Esp. if I'm bored, lonely, lazy, down....I get hungry.

So I keep this laptop on for most of the evening...I hate the keys to be sticky or even smudged...ha ha ...so it really helps me stop the snacking.

Drink water all the live long day....

I think there is something to the emotional aspect of hunger. I've been a disordered eater for so long that my hunger mechanisms are... faulty. So often I think I'm hungry, but when I really sit down and think about it I'm actually bored or frustrated or something like that. It's like when I was little and I'd tell my mom that I was hungry, she'd offer me a banana or something and I'd say no I want ice cream or whatever, her response was inevitably "well you must not be that hungry then" - and as irritating as it was... she was right.

Also absolutely agree with water - I've read time and time again that thirst signals can be mistaken for hunger.

And finally... don't keep anything in the house that could send you off the rails. It's not a rule that my husband likes, but he's used to it now and if he wants a treat he has it while he's at work or, every now and then, I might bring home a very limited quantity of something for us to share. That way if I am really and truly hungry, my choice is only to have something healthy and low cal. Having said that I only keep healthy things that I actually love - it's pointless to keep cardboard tasting snacks around 'cause then you'll just wish you had had something "bad". So red peppers and hummus, oatcakes and light cream cheese, cherry tomatoes - things that I personally really enjoy but are nutritious too. It takes some work to figure out what satisfies you, but it's worth it!

And last... I'd say stay away from processed foods as much as possible. The more unidentifiable ingredients, the more likely it is to damage your health in some way - be it through excessive sodium, hidden sugars, etc.

If you push through the first few weeks it gets easier. The snacking is not so bad most of the time. I think I have a hungry day once a month or so. Those days are hardest but we all manage to get through them. I guess all I am saying is that it does get easier. You can do it if you put your mind to it

you should start tracking your protein. a gram of protein and a gram of carbs each have 4 calories, but protein is going to keep you feeling satisfied longer than carbs will. adding a hand full of nuts, a hard boiled egg, or some deli meat is a good way to incorporate protein into your snacks.