Always hungry..

Increase fiber. The Fiber One 90 calorie bars are really good.

I also love the Green Giant steamed green beans with almonds (frozen food section).

Have a little protein throughout the day.

Best wishes!

Hello,
you may want to get your fasting blood sugars checked ( I am a physician). Try to keep away from carbs as they increase insulin levels in the body and that in turn stimulates hunger.

double post :blushing:

I used to be hungry all the time also when I would diet. It made it so difficult to lose weight. I have made the following changes and it has been the key to losing weight.
1 - Make breakfast your biggest meal of the day (30-40% of daily calorie total)
2 - Make dinner your smallest meal (about 20-25% of daily calories). Also, eat mostly protein and nurtient dense vegetables. Do not eat higher carbs foods like rice, pasta and bread at dinner.
3 - Do not snack between meals. This does not allow your stomach to empty the food and you never really burn from fat stores if you always have food in your belly.
4 - Elimanate refined sugars from your diet (sugar from milk and fruit is okay)
5 - Do not use sweetners like equal, instead use natural sweetners like Purevia or Stevia
6 - Eliminate as many processed foods from your diet as possible. Most processed foods are low in nurtients that your body needs. Your body alot of nutrients and it is hard enough to get them when you eat normally. When you diet, you are getting even less nutrients. This could be the real reason you are hungry. Eat more fruit, veggies and organic foods like milk, eggs, yogurt. Kashi cereal is a great cereal because it is high in fiber and is made from whole grains.
7 - Do not drink a bunch of water when you eat food. This only makes your stomach bigger to allow for the food and water. Drink the water between meals and only drink water or milk (no fruit juices).
8 - Do not eat within 3 hours of bedtime. If you stomach is empyt when you fall asleep, you will burn fat while you are sleeping. If you have food in your stomach, it will be converted to fat.
9 - Excercise, excercise excercise. This is the absolute key to losing weight. If you have ever watched the biggest loser, you see what excercise does. Excercise also helps curb your appettite. I tend to come home after work, eat something light for dinner and head off to the gym for my workout. I then come home (AND DO NOT EAT) and go to bed a couple of hours later.

Doing all this has helped me lose over 30 lbs in about 6 weeks. I am rarely hungry and i feel so much better.

Hope all this helps.

8 - Do not eat within 3 hours of bedtime. If you stomach is empyt when you fall asleep, you will burn fat while you are sleeping. If you have food in your stomach, it will be converted to fat.

Not true,

it takes at least 6 hours for food in your stomach to even get half way through it's journey in your intestines where the action happens. The whole "Going to bed with food in your stomach is bad" thing is a myth and not something you should be giving out as advice.

I don't know if this ever happens to you or if you notice you're even hungrier on days where you don't snack. I find when I skip snacks or even worse a meal then I am starving all night and tend to fall of my game plan. I have a very busy lifestyle and it took me a few weeks before I noticed what I was doing wrong. Now I always carry a Zone protein bar with me in case I get to busy to pause and make a real meal/snack. For the most part I have noticed eatting 3 moderately sized meals and two snacks seems to keep me feeling satisfied.
The only other big thing I have done is I gave up all soda and all artificial sweeteners. I've noticed my chocolate cravings have deminished significantly
Hope this helps, Good luck!!

3 - Do not snack between meals. This does not allow your stomach to empty the food and you never really burn from fat stores if you always have food in your belly.

Ok, now you're just making stuff up. You're making me laugh. Food is not absorbed in your stomach and the food in your stomach has absolutely no bearing on your body's ability to burn fat etc. Where do you get this stuff from?

I can always count on you to call it out when it happens... I was thinking the same thing. I don't buy into all the "tricks and tips". I eat when I'm hungry... I exercise, I drink my water and I do my best to make good decisions... guess what? It works! Whodathunkit?

I'm really new to all of this stuff, and my head's swirling with all the different pieces of advice you'll get from different sources, so I wouldn't even try to recommend things to eat that quell your appetite, at least until I've found something that works for me.

But I have noticed that when I'm feeling a bit hungry, a light workout really just makes me feel better and pushes the hunger away for a little while. And when I've added it to MFP, I get a couple of hundred calories back that I can have when the hunger comes back in a couple of hours.

Test at a doctors office for HBAIC ( hemoglobin A1c) which gives you the idea of the mean blood sugar for the last 3 months is about 25-30$. And fasting blood sugars should be about $ 20.
But you can get a self test kit for HBAIC from walgreens
http://www.walgreens.com/store/catalog/Diabetic-Supplies/A1CNow-SelfCheck-At-Home-A1C-System/ID=prod5825101&navCount=1&navAction=push-product?V=G&ec=nt_&srccode=cii_9324560&cpncode=18-56906495-2

its about $ 24.
If yr HBAic is > 5.7, you possibly have insulin resistance and hence a higher level of insulin and hence the hunger,
Over the counter Chromium Piconolate is known to help with insulin resistance and you may want to try it,
Metformin ( Glucophage) is the first line of treatment ( and most inexpensive) $ 4 for a month supply. and you will surely see results with it., You will need your family doc to give you a prescription for 500 mg twice a day,

This seems both obvious and also a little "taboo" on these boards but how about.... eating more? :laugh:

It's a little hard to give specific advice without being able to see your food log. Assuming you are eating lots of fibrous vegetables, lean proteins and enough good fats, then my next thought would be that your goal is getting to be too aggressive as you have lost weight. If you are trying to lose 2 lbs/week and you are less than about 50-60 lbs from your goal, you might be trying to create too large of a deficit. You could try dialing back your goal to 1lb/week if it is not already there. Or take a high calorie day one day/week where you add an additional 500 or so calories. I too have experienced feeling completely RAVENOUS around the same time that you talk about and this is on days that I have done everything "right".

On the one hand, I take it as a good sign that my metabolism is revved up when I get hungry often, but I know if I go too long, I will start to feel cranky, weak, lightheaded, and then I'll just snap and eat a box of donuts. That doesn't help anything. I feel like it is important to find a good balance: feeling nicely satiated is good, feeling overly full means I've eaten too much and feeling totally starving means my body needs a bit more calories. It's important, of course, to distinguish between actual hunger and just wanting to eat (it can be really hard to separate the two).

you sound JUST LIKE ME!!!!....I get REALLY CRANKY....Its so bad....And you are right when it happens I would so eat a box of donuts or a butt load of chocolate...Maybe I do need change my goal. I am also going to get some of those Skinny Cow ice cream things..for those times when i really just want some chocolate..I am going to make my food diary public. So if you would like to take a look and give me some ideas I would really appreciate it Thank you so much!!!

I'm guessing you already upped your calorie goal because, as it looks right now, you appear to be typically eating waaay under your goal. But, I'm assuming that your goal has recently been upped, so it just sort of messes up how the previous entries look. :happy:

The food aspect looks pretty good to me. The one thing I would say is with the fiber aspect. I don't know what the "typical lunch" entry is, but is the fiber accurate for that? It looks to have only 1 gram of fiber, which is pretty low for that many calories. I would try to shoot for 25 grams of fiber a day, if not more. The best low-calorie way to do that is going to be cramming in as many vegetables as you can, basically. There are some supplements and some bread can have a lot of fiber and whatnot, but I've found vegetables to be the most filling-per-calorie.

But yeah, if you were aiming for 2 lbs/week, try knocking it back to 1lb/week. This gives you the room to eat more and not feel guilty about it but, if you end up being under calories a couple of days because you aren't hungry, you might lose a little more. I just think that slow and steady is the way to go instead of eating so little that you binge! (I'm going through something similar right now. I'm very close to my goal and my body fat is pretty low, so I feel like I can't lower my goal much more and still lose but yet I feel hungry ALL the time! I have been taking more and more "high calorie days". Not a bad thing in theory, but it is if it ends up being the norm. :happy: )

Hope you start feeling a little less ravenous!