How Quick was the hunger change?

stork32
stork32 Posts: 36
in Food and Nutrition
Ive dieted in the past, and I know that there comes a point where you are comfortable eating less....and you're no longer as hungry as when you first started...but Ive always lost weight from exercise only and/or from an eating disorder.

I recently started eating healthy and making positive changes. I always fail around friday. Because I AM SUPER HUNGRY AND just give in.

How long did it take you to get "used to" or find the "new lifestyle" "normal?"

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  • jynxxxed
    jynxxxed Posts: 1,010 Member
    Never. I just eat a ton still, but lower calorie/healthier options usually.
  • ChristyRunStarr
    ChristyRunStarr Posts: 1,600 Member
    Are you eating enough? I know when I first started I wasn't so I was always super hungry. Then I upped my calories and I was fine (and still losing) I noticed on your page that you love lifting, another thing that makes me hungier than normal! If you haven't already, check out helloitsdan's post: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12
  • EvanKeel
    EvanKeel Posts: 1,903 Member
    I like to compare it being on nitrous at the dentist's. I was still in a fair amount of pain I just didn't care as much. I'm still freaking hungry all the time, I just focus on it a little less over time.

    I didn't really notice a change for about 2-3 weeks.
  • Firefox7275
    Firefox7275 Posts: 2,040 Member
    Hunger tends to occur as a sign you are not eating enough calories, food bulk or of specific nutrients - if you are super hungry then you are likely doing it wrong. Fill yourself up with huge piles of non starchy vegetables, low sugar fruits, lean proteins, other fibre rich foods, small portions of other healthy fats. Concentrate more on what you can and should eat for health than what you cannot or should not.
  • yo_andi
    yo_andi Posts: 2,178 Member
    Are you eating enough? Reason I ask is that I was also an athlete for most of my life, and once I got a grownup job and started living like a grownup I packed on some weight... I guess you really can't eat the same way you did during the season once you're working a sedentary job and only getting a little bit of exercise a few times a week :laugh: Then, once you have to take the weight off, you tend to eat way too little to fuel your (admittedly) sedentary lifestyle plus whatever exercise you do during the week. And you end up feeling low energy and starving and grumpy and like I can't stick with this because I'll end up in jail for homicide if I don't get something to eat now RAWR!
  • stork32
    stork32 Posts: 36
    And you end up feeling low energy and starving and grumpy and like I can't stick with this because I'll end up in jail for homicide if I don't get something to eat now RAWR!

    *sigh* this is a very true statement.

    I will read the link that was sent to me and look at how much Im eating....

    Thanks for all the tips.
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    It took me a long time to build up to eating enough, to getting over that 1300 calorie hump and up to just under 2000 calories. But it happened. Of course some days I'll still cap out at like 1000 cals worth of alcohol and that's it for the day- but if you can crap out on Friday then I can just skip eating on Mondays and Wednesdays :P
  • canadiandee
    canadiandee Posts: 196 Member
    I'm gonna say about 3 weeks. But I think a part of that is\was just a recognition of the difference between just wanting to eat and actually being hungry (for me, anyway). I've gone a decade with never really being hungry. :wink:
  • cyberiarob
    cyberiarob Posts: 229 Member
    Never. I just eat a ton still, but lower calorie/healthier options usually.

    ^ This! I think I eat more volume of food now than when I ate fast-food 3 times a day.
  • 3005newkid
    3005newkid Posts: 7
    Such a hard thing to discern between being actually hungry and just wanting to put something in your mouth!
  • stork32
    stork32 Posts: 36
    This is very true :)

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