Not hungry

Kemodo12
Kemodo12 Posts: 5
in Health and Weight Loss
I am new at this-I started yesterday. I have a 1200cal/day goal. I have 969 left for the day, and it's almost bed time. I still feel VERY full from the salad I had at 2pm (nearly 8hrs ago).
Is this normal, for an entirely new way of eating? I feel otherwise fine. I'll have a smoothie soon, so my calories get higher. I just want to know if anyone else has found this.

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  • farway
    farway Posts: 1,264 Member
    Many do, it is eating fulfilling, bulky whole food & not calorie high junk like doughnuts, cake & crisps

    You will get differing thoughts on this, personally if I am not hungry I do not stuff food into me, others use peanut butter to up calories, or protein shakes

    Give it a few days to let your body get used to it, you may find one day you are starving and binge, which is fine, it all works out over the weeks
  • Kemodo12
    Kemodo12 Posts: 5
    Great, thanks heaps!
  • WaterBunnie
    WaterBunnie Posts: 1,371 Member
    I expect your appetite will kick in again but long term that low an intake wouldn't be good for you.
  • gigglesinthesun
    gigglesinthesun Posts: 860 Member
    I am new at this-I started yesterday. I have a 1200cal/day goal. I have 969 left for the day, and it's almost bed time. I still feel VERY full from the salad I had at 2pm (nearly 8hrs ago).
    Is this normal, for an entirely new way of eating? I feel otherwise fine. I'll have a smoothie soon, so my calories get higher. I just want to know if anyone else has found this.

    so, what you are saying is that all day, you have consumed 231 calories, in a salad that you had a 2pm and you can't possibly eat another bite?

    Did you eat anything for breakfast?

    no, that is not normal, okay it is maybe normal for people with an ED, but for the rest ... not so much. I have massive salads that fill me up - 200g of lettuce, 450gr cucumber, 350g of red peppers, 300g of tomatoes, a tin of chickpeas, and a homemade dressing containing 1tbsp of grape seed oil and 2 tbsp. of apple cider vinegar - but that contains a lot more calories then 231, just saying'.

    eat more
  • candiceh3
    candiceh3 Posts: 379 Member
    So you've eaten 231 cals all day and you are wondering if the lovely people on MFP will tell you to keep eating or go to bed hangry?

    Just what exactly did you want to get from this thread?

    FREAKING EAT!
  • rb16fitness
    rb16fitness Posts: 236 Member
    It's impossible to believe that a 230 calorie salad you ate eight hours ago has you so stuffed to overflowing that you cant eat another morsel for the rest of the day. Preposterous.

    Eat the remainder of your calorie allowance; 1200 a day is a tiddly amount as it is . Eating 230 a day is not the healthy or rational way to lose weight.

    You are setting yourself up for a binge of epic proportions! :angry:
  • Kemodo12
    Kemodo12 Posts: 5
    I wasn't asking whether I should eat or not; I was asking if people had experienced feeling of being very full when they /first/ changed their eating habits from empty, crappy food, to fresh ingredients. I was feeling full-there's nothing I could change about that; it's just how it was. What did I want from this thread? Being that I have JUST started this new way of life, I had hoped for friendly advice/comments, not the implication that I was deliberately under-eating. I know the effects that can occur from doing this, and it is not the way I want to get to a healthy weight, at all.
    As I stated-I was planning to-and did have-another smoothie. I added peanut butter and protein powder, so I did get more calories in.
    I have no intention of binging-I simply seem to stay full for longer. My weight problem stems from the crap I was eating previously.
    And yes, I did have breakfast (protein shake/smoothie). I neglected to mention that some of those calories were earned back in exercise. So, I did consume more than 230-odd during the day.
    As for today-I am just barely under my cal intake, so it would appear I answered my own question.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    My weight problem stems from the crap I was eating previously.

    just to clarify... your weight problem stems from eating more calories than you needed, not the type of food you were eating... you can lose weight just eating mars bars or mcdonalds if you wanted to!
  • Kemodo12
    Kemodo12 Posts: 5
    My weight problem stems from the crap I was eating previously.

    just to clarify... your weight problem stems from eating more calories than you needed, not the type of food you were eating... you can lose weight just eating mars bars or mcdonalds if you wanted to!

    Well, yes. This is true. :laugh:
    I have (HAD) very little willpower when it came to foods like that. This time though, something has clunked into place, and I am determined not to over eat ****ty food.
  • goodnamegone
    goodnamegone Posts: 237
    I hear eating disorder.
  • gigglesinthesun
    gigglesinthesun Posts: 860 Member
    I wasn't asking whether I should eat or not; I was asking if people had experienced feeling of being very full when they /first/ changed their eating habits from empty, crappy food, to fresh ingredients. I was feeling full-there's nothing I could change about that; it's just how it was. What did I want from this thread? Being that I have JUST started this new way of life, I had hoped for friendly advice/comments, not the implication that I was deliberately under-eating. I know the effects that can occur from doing this, and it is not the way I want to get to a healthy weight, at all.
    As I stated-I was planning to-and did have-another smoothie. I added peanut butter and protein powder, so I did get more calories in.
    I have no intention of binging-I simply seem to stay full for longer. My weight problem stems from the crap I was eating previously.
    And yes, I did have breakfast (protein shake/smoothie). I neglected to mention that some of those calories were earned back in exercise. So, I did consume more than 230-odd during the day.
    As for today-I am just barely under my cal intake, so it would appear I answered my own question.

    see the exercise bit would have been worth mentioning. People with eating disorder eat a lot of fibrous vegetables and fat free yoghurt, because the protein fills you up longest. The issue is though that even though this is all nice clean food, it is not enough food for you to get all your nutrients.

    Since you had a protein shake for both breakfast and dinner and a salad for lunch I assume you are following some sort of shake diet, because again had you mentioned that, people would have said that you need to add more good fats to your diet and perhaps add some avocado and nuts for calories.

    One day undereating is probably not a problem unless you have a medical condition, but if you always eat very little it is not a recipe for long term success.

    edited to say that if I have a stressful few days when I haven't got time to eat enough I'll have pizza or sushi and that sorts my calories right out ... just a suggestion

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