How to deal with ravenous hungry after upping calories?

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Makoce
Makoce Posts: 938 Member
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edit: woops typo. ravenous hunger*

Anyway,
I was eating at 1235 - 1250 calories for a few months at the last few pounds.

I am starting to raise my calories to maintenance ( very slowly, too ) but it appears that upping my calories, no matter how gradual, is kick starting my metabolism, or my leptine levels, or something.

Literally all I want to do is consume food, when before I was quite content/not hungry rarely.

It's a really hard feeling to ignore, as I was doing so good as a previous bringer not being bothered by hunger.

As I keep raising them and eventually get to maintenance...will this feeling go away?
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  • Jestinia
    Jestinia Posts: 1,153 Member
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    Did you change your diet in any way when you upped calories? If so it might be a craving rather than hunger.
  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
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    Nope. Same foods.
  • Jestinia
    Jestinia Posts: 1,153 Member
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    Nope. Same foods.

    Sorry, that's all I got then. Strange! You'd think you'd be fuller, not hungrier.
  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
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    I know right?

    I literally only raised it 50 calories at a time LOL.
    But this was my first time raising it at all.

    Unless its un-related, and more related to yesterdays meal?

    I ate one big meal at a restaurant, and that was it other than small insignificant snacks.
    ( But I do eat out every other week or so for dinner, so thats not new really either )

    But I was totally fine up until 30 minutes ago. It just suddenly hit me.

    Either way, Im afraid that it'll happen if I up my calories anyway, regardless of the reason, so just wondering if anyone else has dealt with this and if it went away.

    I dealt with this issue when I first started losing weight.
    Now almost a year later its back? :(
  • Amwhite1986
    Amwhite1986 Posts: 194 Member
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    It should pass in a week or so. When it happened to me I just drank a lot more water to try and fend off the hunger till it eventually passed and my appetite got under control.
  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
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    Okay. I'm glad it will pass.
    I really dislike the feeling!

    I need to buy lots more sparkling water ;)
    The fizzy stuff helps me feel full.

    Will it pass in about a week despite that I will be upping them for the next 3 weeks?
  • BroSciencePhD
    BroSciencePhD Posts: 60
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    You increased calories equally. Increase your protein intake to suppress hunger. Try eating 1g of protein per pound of weight you have.

    If you weigh 130lbs eat 130g of protein.
  • BroSciencePhD
    BroSciencePhD Posts: 60
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    Okay. I'm glad it will pass.
    I really dislike the feeling!

    I need to buy lots more sparkling water ;)
    The fizzy stuff helps me feel full.

    Will it pass in about a week despite that I will be upping them for the next 3 weeks?

    Thie fizz also expands your stomach, one of your indicators of how full you are is stomach expansion. The more you stretch your stomach, the more food you will eat to feel full.
  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
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    You increased calories equally. Increase your protein intake to suppress hunger. Try eating 1g of protein per pound of weight you have.

    If you weigh 130lbs eat 130g of protein.

    Been trying to up protein.
    Today was actually a high protein day for me, too
  • BroSciencePhD
    BroSciencePhD Posts: 60
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    You increased calories equally. Increase your protein intake to suppress hunger. Try eating 1g of protein per pound of weight you have.

    If you weigh 130lbs eat 130g of protein.

    Been trying to up protein.
    Today was actually a high protein day for me, too

    Looks like you hit your calorie goal.

    I have noticed for me atleast, protein shakes digest quickler than solid protein food choices.
  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
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    Yeah. I did. Thankfully. But Im still dying to eat, just trying to ignore it for now. :B
  • BroSciencePhD
    BroSciencePhD Posts: 60
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    Yeah. I did. Thankfully. But Im still dying to eat, just trying to ignore it for now. :B

    How much do you weigh?
  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
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    I currently weigh 111.
    My goal was 110 but one pound isnt going to make a difference.

    So, I started upping calories yesterday ( only by like 50 at a time to be very gradual ) and hope to make it to maintenance by like the 13th or something. Which I believe is like 1463 calories or something like that. ( Im short. )
  • BroSciencePhD
    BroSciencePhD Posts: 60
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    I currently weigh 111.
    My goal was 110 but one pound isnt going to make a difference.

    So, I started upping calories yesterday ( only by like 50 at a time to be very gradual ) and hope to make it to maintenance by like the 13th or something. Which I believe is like 1463 calories or something like that. ( Im short. )
    It's to soon to tell anything. You only been at it one day. How many calories where you eating to lose weight?
  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
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    My goal was set at like 1230 - 1235.
    Was losing like 0.4 - 0.6 a week on that.

    I figured it was too soon to tell, but it was just a weird thing that I havent felt this hungry in months until I upped yesterday, you know?
  • lynn1982
    lynn1982 Posts: 1,439 Member
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    I haven't read all the replies, so apologies if I repeat something... I find if my calories are low for a little while (due to stress or being busy and just not very hungry, etc.) my body then will become really hungry. So maybe it's your body's way of saying it wants more food? Or maybe it wants different foods? That might sound strange, but I went through a phase where nothing I ate would satiate me. Then I upped my healthy fat intake, but not my calories, and I felt much more satisfied. Don't forget, hunger is your body's way of sending you a message. You just need to figure out what that message is.
  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
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    I haven't read all the replies, so apologies if I repeat something... I find if my calories are low for a little while (due to stress or being busy and just not very hungry, etc.) my body then will become really hungry. So maybe it's your body's way of saying it wants more food? Or maybe it wants different foods? That might sound strange, but I went through a phase where nothing I ate would satiate me. Then I upped my healthy fat intake, but not my calories, and I felt much more satisfied. Don't forget, hunger is your body's way of sending you a message. You just need to figure out what that message is.

    Well. Ive been craving nothing but chocolate lately LOL.
    I keep eating the nature valley dark chocolate bars but they dont seem to satisfy.
  • BroSciencePhD
    BroSciencePhD Posts: 60
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    My goal was set at like 1230 - 1235.
    Was losing like 0.4 - 0.6 a week on that.

    I figured it was too soon to tell, but it was just a weird thing that I havent felt this hungry in months until I upped yesterday, you know?

    You should round to the hundreds. So you where eating 1,200 calories yesterday and you increased it to about 1400?

    You shouldn't be hungry, eat "good quality' food... to fill you up right now. See how it goes tomorrow.
  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
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    My goal was set at like 1230 - 1235.
    Was losing like 0.4 - 0.6 a week on that.

    I figured it was too soon to tell, but it was just a weird thing that I havent felt this hungry in months until I upped yesterday, you know?

    You should round to the hundreds. So you where eating 1,200 calories yesterday and you increased it to about 1400?

    You shouldn't be hungry, eat "good quality' food... to fill you up right now. See how it goes tomorrow.

    Nah, Ive been raising very slowly. Went up to about 1280, so if we're rounding, about 1300.
    Week after that ill be at 1400.

    But, the foods I eat now are the same as usual, very picky pallet, and usually kept me full
  • cmeiron
    cmeiron Posts: 1,599 Member
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    I'm in a group of women who are bulking (so we've all increased out intake). What you've experienced seems pretty common; a bunch of us were RAVENOUS after increasing our intake above maintenance. Eventually it goes away, but it SUCKS in the meantime!

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