How to deal with ravenous hungry after upping calories?

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.

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.

Yeah. I did. Thankfully. But Im still dying to eat, just trying to ignore it for now. :B

How much do you weigh?

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?

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.

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.

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!

Chocolate cravings can be a sign of some deficiencies such as magnesium, calcium, zinc, vitamin B and C. Are you taking any supplements?

Chocolate cravings can be a sign of some deficiencies such as magnesium, calcium, zinc, vitamin B and C. Are you taking any supplements?

I've heard this too. You said you're eating Nature Valley bars. Have you tried just plain dark chocolate?

For me, btw, it was more just an overall hungriness. Despite not changing what I was eating, I was suddenly ravenous, but not for anything in particular. It wasn't a craving per se - just plain hunger that I couldn't satiate. I added avocado to my salad and suddenly became satisfied again. (Plus my skin has never looked better...)

I would take a look at what you're eating and what you might be missing in your diet. This might sound "out there," but think of other things going on in your body too - how you're feeling, etc.

edited to add: I just noticed the part where you said you've only been at this for one day. Maybe your body is just saying that it needs more food today? Or if you're craving chocolate, eat that damn chocolate bar (or maybe just a square or two)! It's just one day... As long as it stays at one day, then I wouldn't worry.

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?

I'm curious what happened since? Did you ever stop getting the intense hunger? I have increased from the same starting point and the same amount in increase, and am experiencing the same thing.

do you think when you ate less your stomach shrank? and then when you increased your food, that good benefit left you?