What do you eat when you're starving but short on calories?

I sometimes:

Take 1 cup of unsweetened almond milk and put 1/2 c. frozen fruit (with sweetener)

Or

drink tea or hot broth

To really feel full?

Protein on a tortilla.


2 ounces chicken coated in cumin and chili powder and baked, seared or grilled, some peppers and onions that I cook in the same spices and a touch of olive oil, hot sauce, fat free cheese very lightly sprinkled, a salad's worth of cilantro, and the la tortilla factory tortilla because those things fill you up. Each is under 200 calories. I ate 3 plus 3 extra ounces chicken and stuff without the tortilla.

Oh, and it's very healthy. Maybe even bordering on too healthy to be called a taco.

First of all: Never starve yourself. Then it is better to do some extra exercises. If your starve yourself your body goes to "starvation mode" and hold on tight to your fat depots. And that's the last thing you want if you want to lose weight

Eat varied and you will feel less hungry because your body is satisfied.

Drink your 8 cups of water everyday and eat vegetables as low calorie snack.

Remember sometimes the mind wants to eat because you are bored. Try to do something else in 10 minutes and drink some water if you are still hungry then eat something. Actually exercises will lower the desire for food.

Requires work: I make a huge pot of cabbage soup - yeah like the stuff from that old fad diet.. It is cheap, filling, and you can eat as much as you want.

Minimal work: Tomato soup - using V8, Snappy Tom, etc. Add a bit of herbs, some Parmesan, heat in the microwave and you have a really good tasting 'soup' that you can drink all day.

Neither one taste like 'diet' food, or makes me feel deprived. Depending on how you season it, you can change the whole flavor profile of both of them.

Options hot choc drink

People who say "boiled egg white" make me cry there - see?:sad:

Oat Bran - as little as 1-2 tbsp will expand in the stomach, and keep you full for a couple hours

I have a ziploc bag full of raw broccoli in the fridge always.

Dried seaweed sticks (Trader Joe's , or Annie Chun), the wasabi flavor is satisfying and you won't feel like eating anything else for a while.!

THIS!
Or Roasted Seaweed Sheets also from TJs or Annie Chung. Love em.
Also popcorn.
Sometimes though and by sometimes I mean once a month, I just eat the carbs I NEED. Often a whole bag of tortilla chips. Then I wake up the next day, go to the gym and stay within my calorie goal as best I can as usual.

I usually eat some kind of mixed nuts - almonds, cashews, lightly salted peanuts, etc, mixed with dried fruit. Just a little is high calorie and will fill you up with good fats and protein.