SOOOO Hungry!

are you eating back your exercise calories?

Hot water with a slice of lemon can help with hunger pangs - better than cold water! Also rather than filling up on sugary fruit, use protein instead; slices of wafer thin ham (roughtly 13 cals per slice) with lots of lettuce and salt/pepper/vinegar dressing. You can also use a teaspoon of olive oil with that dressing as our bodies need the oil and as we have cut out fat, we have to gert it in there somewhere!

Another tuip is to chew s l o w l y.......chew until the food is literally too small to find to chew anymore - taste the flavours, make sure you are last to finish, your brain thinks you have eaten more, your stomach is grateful for the smaller amounts......

Tomatoes, coloured peppers and onion (Including spring onion) are high in sugar and carbs, limit them to 30g in total (i.e. a mix of the three) per meal. Eat smaller portions, 5 - 6 times a day - keeps you topped up rather than 'full up' - and always eat breakfast within 30 mins of waking........

Have fun!

Are you 4'? Lol. I ask because 1300 seems awful low for someone just starting out and wanting to lose over 100lbs.

I've been feeling the same way. For me I think it might be stress. But it seems even eating every 2 hours I can't get enough.

then eat.,

I think your app is overestimating your calorie burn, I get about 150 for 1.2 miles when I walk so use the lower figure but I think you should eat your calories back too.

I eat large salads as meals. Make sure you use vinegrette not dressing.

I have a late breakfast that way I don't need a morning snack.

Hope it helps.

The passed couple days, no matter what I do, including drinking water, I just feel like I am starving! I don't want to just snack, what can I eat that is low cal but filling? My cal limit is 1300 cals a day, I walk 2 miles every day. I also don't understand how MFP comes up with calories lost, or any app does for that matter.. For example, I use MapMyWalk for my walks and my 2 miles takes me about 36-38 mins and the app says I lose 373 cals (somewhere in that area) but when I put my walk into MFP, 38 min only equals about 200 something cals burned.. how do I know which one to use? Bleh so lost!

snack on veggies (baby carrots, cucumber, etc) they are low-cal

I read somewhere that 1 mile = approximately 100 calories. You can run, walk, skip or jump it. The faster you complete the mile - the faster you burn 100 calories. Of course this will fluctuate depending on your body size but it's a good guessing point.

Seems to be a good average between all the calorie calculating apps! ( I run with Nike+, walk/climb stairs etc with MapMyFitness, and log exercise in MFP. I will usually pick the lower # or average the two)

FAT! healthy fats. coconut butter, EVOO, almond butter, etc

The passed couple days, no matter what I do, including drinking water, I just feel like I am starving! I don't want to just snack, what can I eat that is low cal but filling? My cal limit is 1300 cals a day, I walk 2 miles every day. I also don't understand how MFP comes up with calories lost, or any app does for that matter.. For example, I use MapMyWalk for my walks and my 2 miles takes me about 36-38 mins and the app says I lose 373 cals (somewhere in that area) but when I put my walk into MFP, 38 min only equals about 200 something cals burned.. how do I know which one to use? Bleh so lost!

I like SF jello. A whole box is just 20 calories. It's filling, flavorful and obviously way low in calories. (I'm sure there are people who will say the SF is bad for you so make your own decision

natural fruit juice in a blinder

NO NEED TO STARVE OR BE HUNGRY.
If you read FAT CHANCE THE BITTER TRUTH ABOUT SUGAR BY ROBERT LUSTIG.
He explains everything.
Also watch THE SKINNY ON OBESITY on you tube.
Basically when your hungry your stomach produces a hormone Ghrelin which tells your brain when your hungry and tells you to eat. When you have had enough food your fat cells produce a hormone Leptin which tells your brain when your full. In your diet glucose can be metabolised by all the cells in the body. But SUGAR (food company have 50 different names for it on the labels) can only be processed by the liver and in doing so PREVENTS LEPTIN FROM BEING PRODUCED, so it doesn't matter how much you eat you will never stop the body feeling thats its hungry.
Because everyone is count calories and not looking at the nutritional quality of these calories, this is where the problem arises. We think we are being healthy eating low fat foods, but for the food industry to remove the fats the flavour also goes. Hence filling it full of carbohydrates and sugar and salt for taste. Problem the way the body processes the types of carbs its the same has fats. So low fat food is a myth, because you gain weight with them. Rule of thumbs processed foods and sugars and sweeteners need to be avoided. Mainly because they interfere with the leptin signaling to tell you when your full.
Following this your cravings for junk food disapppearing along side your excess weight.
Reading Lustigs info on a calories is not a calorie is an eye openers too. Regarding exercise the more muscle mass you have the greater your resting calorific burn will be when your not exercising. Would be impossible to burn all the calorie off that you eat with exercise. So with this knowledge you don't have to guilty or harsh with yourself. If you have problems with blood glucose levels, Lustigs explain the important role of fibre and how it prevents sugar spikes though out the day. Now why mention this. Because when you have any sugar spikes or blood glucose rises your body releases insulin to store this excess energy away has fat. So controlling you blood sugar levels from spiking will reduce insulin secretions and will reduce fat storage.
And fibre plays an important role in this slowing down the glucose blood absorption in the intestices and hence no need to send to storage (fat).
Ensure your food has a higher fibre to sugars ratio. Increasing your fibre will sort out your micro nutrients vitamins and minerals etc.
So together with a little knowledge about food, and exercise your body weight will sort itself out. Note If you change fat tissue to muscle tissue using exercise your body weight won't go down. But your body fat, muscle, bone compostion has changed. So a precentage body fat measuring device will be helpful here.
Last thing eat when your hungry because your body adapts and down regulates your metabolism to conserve energy, whilst increasing your desire for food and increases the reward pathways for problematic foods high calorific foods.