My calories are spent but I'm hungry

If your really hungry have a piece of fruit or something light. Dont go hungry. Take it one day at a time and eventually you will work out what works for you. Maybe you need to give yourself more calories a day and try to get in some exercise even if its just a walk around the block.

i usually exercise twice a day. First to burn off my breakfast calories, and the second time to burn off 1/2 my lunch calories. I would also try eating foods that are high in protein such as nuts, as they'll keep you fuller longer and make excellent snacks! If you are hungry before bed, the best thing you could eat would be fruit or yogurt or 100 calorie snacks. DO NOT eat a full meal! If you do, you won't be too hungry for breakfast. Hope i helped! x Oh also i eat back some of my exercise calories sometimes.

A tip I have learned over the past couple of year is that sometimes I mistake hunger for dehydration. A lot of time I have my food and half hour later feel hungry again, so then I just have a pint a water and then ten minutes later the hunger feeling has gone

Jog in place during those commercials burns about 100 cals on a average 150lb person per 10 mins

Mini meals work awesome too

I save calories to combat the late night munchies. Cheap (cal wise) foods that I fall back to are blueberries, slim pasta, eggplant, tomato, cottage cheese.

You could eat some vegetables. They are very low calorie, provide great nutrition and help stave off hunger for those moments. I keep bags of frozen available in my freezer. Besides, most of us could afford to eat more veggies.

For the most part I've always done plenty of extra cardio so I could eat more. For the last 9 months, however, I've not been able to run much due to a knee injury, and yet I've had no issue with maintaining weight and losing weight as I've wanted. The trick really is calories.

I'm new too so try not to comment when they are so many already successful people around, but here is my experience so far far (40 days today, hey me!)

Do you have your cals set up adequately, if you have set up for 1.5-2lb a week and you are hungry maybe go for 1lb a week (no idea about your weight, etc as can't see your profile) But as much as I hate all those posts of "Eat more"(like whf wants to eat more when they want to lose weight?! ) I have to admit that setting up 1.5lb a week for me at the start was over-ambitious. Weight did come off that fast, first two weeks were brilliant, but I now find myself obsessing over counting all day long, worrying if I have enough calories left for 5 nuts... that's no way to live :-) I now have to face increasing my calories with 200 to get me to more manageable level and I know I'll probably gain few pounds in the next to weeks, it nearly kills me mentally. Wish I had been more realistic at the start, buy hey, we all learn :-). So make sure you are at a good starting point

Water is your friend! Many days two glasses of water has bought me another hour to get me to dinner time.
Protein does keep you full for longer, I still need to work on increasing protein in my diet.
Handful of nuts are mostly fat but will get you another hour or so. I love being able to nibble on them during the day.
Lots of vegetables - they add volume so fill you in, yet have very low calories.


I made a promise to myself that I won't go hungry. I personally prefer few nuts that fruit as my carbs are always quite high as it is, but my rule is as long as I've eaten healthy food all day long if I'm still hungry I eat some more. I usually ask myself am I hungry enough to eat spinich or brocolli (not fond on either:-) ), if answer is yes than I'm truly hungry and I do eat

Good luck and add me if you need more friends

I'm set at 1280 per day which factors out to a 2 lb. Loss per week?

I love all the suggestions and tips everyone is giving. Taking it all to heart. I might make a bulleted list of all these tips and post to fridge so I don't forget them!

Two pounds a week is an ambitious goal. Try to keep in mind that if you want to keep the weight off permanently that you need to focus on getting rid of old habits and replacing them with sustainable good ones. Give yourself time to lose the weight, there really is no reason to rush.

If you're struggling with this, cut back to a loss of 1 pound a week and make sure you're doing some strength training. You'll feel better and maintain more lean body mass as you lose.

1280 is quite low... no wonder you feel hungry. If you are looking at reassessing your goals check out the in place of a road map forum post.

If it were me, I'd change that 2lb/week to 1lb a week because I hate being hungry and weightloss is a long-term thing.

My calories per day are at 1500. I try to plan my day out before lunch so I know what I can eat during the rest of the day. I usually eat most of my exercise calories back - the more I exercise the more I can eat, and I find I'm often not as hungry.

And yes, make sure you're getting enough water. Good luck

I should have read the water tip earlier. I've only had 4 cups today so that probably is it!!

I almost made the chicken and even googled bake time and set the oven to pre-heat--but then I stopped myself. I ended up eating a dill pickle (random, I know) cause it's zero calories and my sodium levels were under. Still wasn't enough so had a little hummus with baby carrots. Still went over on calories by 300, but better than yesterday when I was over by 3,000!

Must work on the perfection vs "to hell with it" extreme thinking.

Gotta try the water, next time!!

You could have had the chicken breast for around 150cals and been over by less Never assume just because something is more of a 'meal' that you shouldnt have it. Also, I agree that 1280 cals is VERY low, if you're hungry, EAT THE FOOD!

I'm set at 1280 per day which factors out to a 2 lb. Loss per week?

I love all the suggestions and tips everyone is giving. Taking it all to heart. I might make a bulleted list of all these tips and post to fridge so I don't forget them!

That is way too low now wonder you're going over and beating yourself up about it.

Rwad up about BMR AND TDEE- you're practically starving yourself and are craving fatty foods that will help you make up the difference leading to binges.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/937709-in-place-of-a-road-map-ver-3-0

For you id recommend eating your TDEE - 30% which i can guarantee will be double your current intake.

Since I've been following my TDEE and using a deficit i've lost a lot of weight and i don't binge. you'll need to reset your metabolism so give it a few weeks and then the lbs and inches will fly off.

Option A is a positive option.

Mainly though I would agree with the others about changing your weight loss goal.
Being successful trying to lose 1lb a week is much better than trying to lose 2lbs a week and failing while feeling constantly hungry and miserable.