I'm so IRRITABLE!

i had a few REALLY irritable days in my second week, but things went back to normal afterward.

Eat a snickers.

I say prep up a huge glass of a low cal beverage (i.e. unsweeteened almond milk decaf tea, truvia sweetened green or black tea, crystal light, hot tea, etc) and a lean protein (egg whites, tuna, or a greek plain yogurt with stevia or almond extract) and get a journal a unload that stress. Also a little walk or picking up the phone to talk to a friend may also help. Kudos to you for identifying the issue and asking for help on here rather then going with the emotions and your cravings. You're doing great MFP!!

Eat a snickers.

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Full Snickers bar is 250 calories. You can pretend the nuts are the bones of your enemies.

I only feel irritable enough to rip a person's face off when I'm at work. Once I clock out and go home, I can get away from all that annoys me. The joys of customer service jobs....

Now I wonder how many calories would be burned beating an annoyance to a bloody pulp?

This is going to sound boring, however, baby carrots have saved me on days this. You can eat as many as you want!

If I feel like I need to eat and I've almost run out of calories, I still eat... I just try to reason with myself a little. I'll have a piece of fruit with some cheese or a granola bar rather than diving face first into the first container of delicious food I see. That helps me feel more justified in my "overeating."

I'm 5 foot 2 doing 1290 calories want to get to 150 short term

With so little to lose, there's no reason to be at such a deep calorie deficit. Change your MFP settings to .5lbs/week, you'll feel better.

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Slow weight loss is best. What is the rush? If you are feeling this way now chances are you will soon give up after a binge (just sayin since I've been there and done what you are doing now). Figure your BMR and make that your minimum and then find out your TDEE and subtract 20% to make this your max calories per day. You will feel better and you will still lose. Good luck!

To be honest my first two weeks of counting calories and being healthier in general, I had that constant fogginess in my head if that makes sense and was extremely irritable throughout the day. Most people avoided me in general. After those two weeks though it gets a WHOLE lot better. I think its just your body *****ing at you that its not getting what its used to.

somedays I just feel like I need more...so I eat it, but I make sure to burn those calories back off so I don't feel bad about it the next day, somedays you just will go over, have a plan

can you make time for a workout? that usually cures my irritability (thank you, endorphins). maybe something like kickboxing or boxing, where you kind of hit things... there are some great video game fitness things too where you smash imaginary blocks (i only use PS360 but i am sure there are ones for the other gaming systems too).
even just a 7 minute workout, something like http://www.7-min.com/
of course the working out *could* make you more hungry, but maybe you'd feel better after...and it will probably distract you for a bit.
make sure you are drinking plenty of water (honestly, sometimes this does help), get 7-8 hours of sleep per night if you can...
and dude, some days you are just more hungry than others. i think it's ok to allow yourself an extra snack sometimes... but maybe try to keep it something healthy.
if this is more than an occasional thing, it's totally worth considering upping your daily calories a bit.

I have had many days like you and have given in to my cravings but not to the extent that I used to. You don't want to feel deprived. Show yourself you can go off track somedays but get back on track the next day. That too is a valuable learning tool. Even logging your "cheat" foods is good because it likely won't add up to as many calories as you think. I'm also on 1200 calories and when I've added up what I snacked on and thought it would be horrible I realized that many people on this site have the same number of calories as their daily weight loss calorie allotment. Try not to give in to your feelings of doom! Lol.