Okay, i'm starving!

For sure, preplan your day, and add as many whole foods as you can. The problem with restaurant or prepackaged foods is that they are calorie filled but small serving sizes.
Make sure that you're eating enough. Looks like you're at 1200 calories. Did you set it or did MFP set it? 1200 works for some people, but not everyone, I was pretty hangry! haha
I upped my calories, slowed my loss a bit but I can eat, I have energy, and I'm hardly hungry!

Good job on the progress and the exercise that you're getting in!!!

I am not sure what you ate, but you need to maintain at least 1200 calories a day. that is what I eat and I am never hungry. Eat desne foods like protein and complex carbs.

How did you manage to eat a meal with chicken in the title that doesn't have protein? Avoid protein flavored items and eat protein; it will keep you feeling full longer. And I completely agree with eating more.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

Eat a piece of fruit see if that helps.

Are you about to start your period? This always happens to me the week before my period. I can never get full. So I tend to just be hungry that week... Just drink lots of water and think about upping your calories.

Your body is telling you that you are not eating enough... and your diary shows me that as well. You should be eating at the very least your BMR so your body doesn't starve!

yup - ^^^ This.

Meats. Low in cals and big of filling.

this will fill you up!

hot dogs + sharp cheddar + lean hamburg + Thick cut hickory bacon + Sweet Baby rays bbq sauce + TURTLE BURGERS!



made mac n cheese with bacon bits stuffed jalapeno meatloaf wrapped in apple cider cured BACON!! It...was...epic!!!!

Cut the sugar out to start. Tea can be without sugar. Then cut out the lollies. Gives you more cals to actually eat. Then have an apple, or some eggs, or a banana. Apple will fill your cravings nice

Could also be your metabolism kicking up.... try eating small amounts more often while your body gets used to the lower portions... at least that's what helped me when I started.

Try adding the Fiber counter to your Food diary. You are eating a fair amount of processed food and the more fiber you eat the more satisfied you will feel.

The choices you made (the Wurthers hard candy) for 132 calories you could have had 1/2 an apple and a cup of skim milk for the same calories. That would have given you 130 calories, 12 grams of protien and 5 grams of fiber. You would much better than what a couple of small candies can do for you. Not to say you can't have a sweet candy now and then, but it is more important to eat real food first and then have a sweet at the end of the day if you still have the calories left over.

But if you are hungry now, you still have room for more food in your day. For 250 calories you can have 4 oz of skinless chicken breast (half a rotissere chicken breast), 1 cup of steamed brocoli, and 1/2 an apple. This is a lot food and should make you feel better. Hope this helps.

1. you have not tracked the cheese wrap thing, so i don't know how many calories it had. unless it was ~400 cals, you have extra cals to use (so use 'em). make a salad with some leat meat in it, and chow down. then have a decaf tea.

2. you have had less than half as much protein as you did the previous day. you also took in tons of sugar. this combined to make your blood sugar all wacky, which is probably why you're hungrier than you expect to be.

if you have tracked accurately today, use your remaining cals. that's what they're for. or work out and then eat some cals, if you're so worried about it.

Your body is telling you that you are not eating enough... and your diary shows me that as well. You should be eating at the very least your BMR so your body doesn't starve!

I have come to the same conclusion. At minimum, you should net to the 1,200 and probably more (though I don't know what your BMR is). This means if you exercise, you need to eat to fuel that activity; there is already a caloric deficit in your caloric goal...at 1,200 calories, it's a substantial one. Also, cut the bull**** calories from lolipops and what not...eat some real food.

Because I've been cooking a lot of home made meals I don't tend to put the vegetables and fruits that I eat down because I know i've eaten them, and know what i've taken in! Even with the ready meals I still have something to eat with it because of the small portions, so for example today I had a large helping of veggies (carrots, mushrooms etc) with the Mac and Cheese and a large helping of rice with the stir fry, as well as bananas, apples etc. Unfortunately my diary does not fully represent my diet but instead my laziness :laugh: As for the previous days missing, I only recently returned.

So aside from that do I HAVE to eat my exercise calories back? Last time I tried that I gained muRch more despite eating pretty healthy stuff and it got me down.
Also truth be told i'm not very good with the whole proteins and carbohydrates and stuff, and don't have the foggiest what makes what!

Right ok, so your starving by not eating back your exercise calories, but you think you gain when you do eat them? Confused. How long have you been eating at 1200 a day?

I never said I -thought- I gained when I ate back my exercise calories, I said I -did-. Hence why the question was there - to ask if it was necessary that I ate all I worked off, or if I was doing it wrong the first time round.

I've only been trying to stick to 1200 cals for the past two weeks or so, but I'm not trying to be strict about it. It's a bit of a struggle to eat as much as I have been doing during the daytime due to past issues, so I don't want to go OTT again.

Ok, well firstly, you need to log everything, even veg has calories in it. How can you accurately know how many calories your eating if you don't log everything?

Secondly, how long did you try eating back your exercise calories for? Your weight gain may may of just been down to water retention from exercising. It takes time to see what works for you, weight gain and loss is never a really speedy thing.