under but not hungry?

Good job staying under. When you complete your diary, it will tell you that you are eating too few calories, and your body will go into starvation mode. Try t eat a little more, or snack healthy. Good luck with this.

Wow what do you eat ? I'm a nightshift workers and needs some tips on eating. Thanks!!

that just happened to me yesterday and today i totally made up for it!
are you that much under your goal regularly?

If you're that far under eat a handful of nuts or something.. :bigsmile:

Every book I read says the same thing: Eat the cals you need to get through the day and the days you exercise you eat those cals as well or you go into "starvation mode". Your body believes that the repeated underage of calories is a trend and defends itself by storing fat and cutting down on energy usage. When you start feeling tired all the time and you aren't losing or even gaining a little, you are in starvation mode. Only way out is to eat over your necessary for a week or so. To stay out eat your exercise carbs and once a week have a cheat day where you eat the one or two things that you cut down on or cut out. You also avoid craving binges this way. To back this up: Bing search -- Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle by Tom Venuto

One day won't typically hurt a lot, but if this is a trend, it will start to hurt your loss. When you're exercising, your body is trying to build muscle. It can't do that without fuel. You want to build muscle so that you burn more calories.

I have found I often have trouble meeting my cals too, especially on exercise days. I seem to be LESS hungry than before - But I try to be within a couple hundred and focus on meeting my protein and fat goals for the day.

Depends a lot on your height, etc, but being that far under your cals for the day with a relatively low exercise burn is pretty extreme. As others said, I'd try to add some protein (nuts, yogurt, etc) and tomorrow add just a little bit to each meal. Like have some fruit with breakfast. Add a veggie or some whole grains to lunch. Add veggies and protein to dinner.

That is waaaaay too few calories for a woman to live on healthily.(Google Karen Carpenter) Do yourself a favor and fill out the goals portion and set it at two pounds a week. Follow the direction of the food diary in that you input the foods you eat and the exercise calories you burn(BTW the calculator is high so adjust your exercise times down by abt. 30%) and EAT ALL THE CALORIES. Eating way under to lose weight will only work short term. Your body will sense the trend and slow your metabolism, start storing fat, and here's the biggie--- give you less energy to burn so you feel tired all the time and you start GAINING WEIGHT. If you want to read about this get this book: Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle by Tom Venuto. Best book I've found about healthy weight loss.