Eating too early
Florameg456
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Okay so today for instance, it's 11:40 am and I have ate both breakfast and lunch and I'm having to stop myself from going in and making another meal! I normally have to have my dinner at around 4pm as I'm always starving and am never hungry at night, but I'm just wondering if anyone else has the same problem and how to solve it? Thanks!
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Are you carb heavy? Personally I find carbs to be way too easy to eat and they make me feel hungrier. THAT'S what happens to me... carbs early and consistent keep me hungry.0
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Is this just since you have been calorie counting or is this normal for you?
If you're not hungry at night, maybe just eat earlier?0 -
Actually no; I don't even see this as a problem. By 1000 in the morning I have already eaten my third meal. Of course I try to do 6 or 7 smaller meals each day. But I eat before I leave for work 5 AM, I try to make this protein heavy. Then I will have a packet of oatmeal as one, and another meal of all fruits and veggies. Then I do my workout. Once I am back from the lunch workout I will eat my lunch; which is about a 40/40/20 meal. Followed by an afternoon snack. Then at home I do dinner and a evening snack.0
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Are you carb heavy? Personally I find carbs to be way too easy to eat and they make me feel hungrier. THAT'S what happens to me... carbs early and consistent keep me hungry.
That's the first thing I thought of too. If I eat too many carbs, I am never satisfied.0 -
Is this just since you have been calorie counting or is this normal for you?
If you're not hungry at night, maybe just eat earlier?
It's just since I started to count, since I only eat 3 meals I thought if I was having my last one really early it wasn't very good for me0 -
find if I eat more protein the hunger tends to go away. boil an egg.0
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Do you have your account set at losing 2 lbs per week? I suspect it's a combination of not enough calories and not enough protein and fat. Can you open you diary?
What you should do though is have your account set at 1/2 or 1 lb per week, change macro's to around 40% carbs, 30% protein and fats, and exercise so you can eat 50% of those exercise calories. At 18, a 2000 calorie diet is not uncommon if you are active.0 -
I do this too... I find I'm hungrier early in the day. I can eat my last meal at four in the afternoon and be good for the rest of the evening. I've been this way pretty much all of my life. It's just the way my body works... I get up early and typically am a morning exerciser.
I don't think its a problem unless you're over you calorie goal.0 -
Do you have your account set at losing 2 lbs per week? I suspect it's a combination of not enough calories and not enough protein and fat. Can you open you diary?
What you should do though is have your account set at 1/2 or 1 lb per week, change macro's to around 40% carbs, 30% protein and fats, and exercise so you can eat 50% of those exercise calories. At 18, a 2000 calorie diet is not uncommon if you are active.
For some reason I track everything on my diary in the app for iphone, and it doesn't show up on the website hence why I can't open my diary, it's set at losing 2lb and my calories are at 1200. I ride my horses everyday if that counts as exercise0 -
I do this too... I find I'm hungrier early in the day. I can eat my last meal at four in the afternoon and be good for the rest of the evening. I've been this way pretty much all of my life. It's just the way my body works... I get up early and typically am a morning exerciser.
I don't think its a problem unless you're over you calorie goal.
Thank you!0 -
If your last meal is at 4pm and you are happy to not snack for the rest of the evening plus you're within your calorie goal then keep going.
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Is this just since you have been calorie counting or is this normal for you?
If you're not hungry at night, maybe just eat earlier?
It's just since I started to count, since I only eat 3 meals I thought if I was having my last one really early it wasn't very good for me
Eat whenever you want. Meal timing has nothing to do with weight loss. Just stay within your calorie goal and it won't matter when you eat.0 -
I do this too... I find I'm hungrier early in the day. I can eat my last meal at four in the afternoon and be good for the rest of the evening. I've been this way pretty much all of my life. It's just the way my body works... I get up early and typically am a morning exerciser.
I don't think its a problem unless you're over you calorie goal.
Thank you!
ooops.. typo "your" calorie goal
You are welcome... People at the office used to laugh because I was always the one going to lunch at 11 or 11:30... I used to bring a meal to eat around 4 because I found myself hitting the vending machines for a snack. I decided if I was hungry at that time... maybe I needed to just eat.
Bottom line do what works! Good luck !0 -
I'm the same way. I try to wait until I'm hungry to have breakfast but some days I can't and then I'm starving for lunch at 11am. It really doesn't matter what I eat. But usually I'm fine if I have an earlier dinner, although I try to eat more filling snacks in the afternoon when that happens.0
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Work out and eat back some exercise calories.0
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Eat any time you want it doesn't matter. You can eat one meal or five.
Personally I'm always wanting to eat or snack at night so it helps to not eat such a big breakfast.0 -
More Protein. i used to eat smaller meals and was hungry all day, constantly eating little bits. i switched to doing 16:8 IF. i eat two large meals. much happier and not hungry nearly as much.0
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If the last two days of your diary are typical of what you eat, then I'd say it's not an issue of eating too early, but too little - below 1000 cals both days.
The fact that you are so hungry should clue you in - you need to eat more!
Lots of good advice in the thread already - more protein & healthy fats, accurate diary settings for the right amount of cals, if you exercise, eat those cals back.0 -
http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-hungry.html
^^ You should take a look around this site. I found it extremely helpful!
I've been experimenting with intermittent fasting (stop eating at 8:30pm and eat the next day around 11:30am) and it's actually been much easier than I thought! Not to mention, it's helped me recognize my hunger cues and figure out when I'm truly hungry, or just bored. Something you might want to look into.0 -
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Before anything......you obviously know what the problem is and you don't need us to tell you what the solution is.
You are recovering from your ED. Obviously you are having a hard time really recovering.
You are already thin. Why in the world are you trying to lose 2lbs a week?
Most importantly, have you talked to your therapist about this?
And, no, you, especially no you should be doing IF 16:8
You seem very thin already and you are trying to lose 20lbs? You have so little to lose that setting MFP to 2 lbs a week is unrealistic, and that doesn't take into account the ED. Find a professional to talk, not MFP.0 -
Okay so today for instance, it's 11:40 am and I have ate both breakfast and lunch and I'm having to stop myself from going in and making another meal! I normally have to have my dinner at around 4pm as I'm always starving and am never hungry at night, but I'm just wondering if anyone else has the same problem and how to solve it? Thanks!
I find that when I have nothing to do I eat more then I want to out of boredom. My solution is to get busy. Go to the gym, go out for a walk, a run... whatever activity you like. Just get out and do something that does not involve food.0 -
Honey at 18 you need to eat more, that's why you're hungry! :flowerforyou:0
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Do you have your account set at losing 2 lbs per week? I suspect it's a combination of not enough calories and not enough protein and fat. Can you open you diary?
What you should do though is have your account set at 1/2 or 1 lb per week, change macro's to around 40% carbs, 30% protein and fats, and exercise so you can eat 50% of those exercise calories. At 18, a 2000 calorie diet is not uncommon if you are active.
For some reason I track everything on my diary in the app for iphone, and it doesn't show up on the website hence why I can't open my diary, it's set at losing 2lb and my calories are at 1200. I ride my horses everyday if that counts as exercise
And there in lies the problem. With almost nothing to lose, you should be at 1/2 lb per week and probably should either eat back your exercise calories or set your account to moderately active. Exercise requires more calories. But I suspect you should be closer to 1700 or more. Before that scares you because it "seems" like a lot of calories, but is a thread with over 500+ response on women that eat 1800+
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/506349-women-who-eat-more-than-1800-calories-a-day0 -
I have to agree with everyone, you seem to be eating too few calories- and the calories you are eating a quite carb heavy. I find I need a big protein rich breakfast (eggs with back bacon, avocado, and chia flax bread), and with a green smoothie as a morning snack I can usually put off lunch until close to 1-2 pm. I have a ton of weight to lose and even set at 2 lbs a week I'm eating 1300-1400 calories a day- so you should be eating much more than 1000. It was hard to put down the carbs and pick up the protein, but it will make all the difference in the world. Making changes to your diet doesn't mean eating the bare minimum, it means eating quality whole foods so your body has the energy it needs.0
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This was me, depending on my work schedule I got up at 5am or 9am, three meals just wasn't keeping me full on some days. My solution was to start eating 6 meals a day. My two morning and mid-morning snacks is usually fruit, mostly out of convenience. That doesn't mean that all days are perfect, but it usually works for me. My diary is open if you want to look at it.0
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Actually everybody is right you need to eat more and plan to lose weight (if you need to lose) slowly. Eat at a deficit of about 500 calories.
Unless you're a skinny dwarf girl that means you need to eat over 1200 calories per day.0
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