Always hungry and drained!

If you're eating the right foods, it may be HOW you're eating them. Eat biggest to smallest throughout the day. Try for 400-500 calories at breakfast, and decrease the size as you go down to lunch and dinner. If you eat more early on in the day and then eat your last bit of food at dinner (or afterwards if you eat after dinner as well), you shouldn't be hungry. This works for me.

Another thing - without knowing how much you eat or exercise, I can't be sure, but you could have to increase your base calories.

Nice! That you're dumping the weight!

I know, with me, if I don't get enough fat and protein in each meal, I will feel hungrier . . . I agree with the water bit too. Lots of water helps me feel fuller. Otherwise, if you know you're getting enough healthy calories, fat, protein and carbs . . . your stomach will shrink in time. And, you know, with the feeling drained part . . . a lack of carbs will do that to me. When I tried that Atkins diet, when it was so so popular a few years back . . . I could hardly function with minimal to no carbs, especially running and exercising hard, gotta replace the carbs.

Just random thoughts . . . I've been there, just fiddle with your diet, it'll work out.

Protein, protein, protein. In my opinion, the levels MFP automatically set up are very low. I eat about twice that amount (30% of my cals) in protein. That works for me and seems to work for a lot of others as well (but everyone is different).

Also, be sure you're eating *enough.* 1200 net calories may not be enough for your body. I think you should consider eating more since you're feeling drained and hungry. Not to be a fear monger here, but if you're not giving your body enough fuel through food, a lot of that weight you're dumping could possibly be muscle. I mean, it's pretty inevitable that you'll lose at least some muscle mass, but if you're anything like me, you probably want to lose as little of it as possible.

I don't get cravings for bad foods and I don't eat them. I can live without chips, chocolate, fried food, etc. However, I do struggle with constantly wanting to eat. I feel like my meals only satisfy me for about 45 min. after I eat them, and then I want to start eating again. I eat really high fiber and pretty high protein (usually really low fat too-- yesterday was an exception, I was doing an experiment)-- so I don't know why I'm always hungry. The last few days I've been eating all my exercise cals, and I'm still going to bed with a painfully empty stomach. I don't want to increase my calories though! Is there something I'm doing wrong?

The really low fat part stands out. Fat = sateity and helps to keep you full.