Why am I always hungry???

Life is unfair. You, me, and nearly everyone else who is our height-- I am 5' 3 1/2"-- has to feel hungry all the time in order to reach, and to maintain, our ideal weight. My ideal weight is 112 and I already know I face a lifetime of hungry days to maintain 112. What works best for me is to save all my calories for one meal at the end of the day. That way, at least I can feel halfway-full once a day! Also, once I start eating I am hungry the rest of the day-- more so than if I wait to eat until late in the day. It's s trigger! AND, I find I am far less hungry if I make sure a good many of my calories come from fat. A 150-calorie tiny bag of chips is way more satisfying than a huge giant plate full of weeds!!:bigsmile:

I don't find this to be true. Granted my ideal weight is 125, but I never go hungry and I maintain on around 2000 calories.. You don't have to eat 700 calories per day. And if you do, you need to see a doctor because something is wrong.

I actually lose weight even on maintenance calories. I stay hungry because I have an enormous appetite; actually, I have a fast metabolism. I am on 700 so I can lose weight as quickly as possible, because I can't stick to a diet unless I see quick results.

Life is unfair. You, me, and nearly everyone else who is our height-- I am 5' 3 1/2"-- has to feel hungry all the time in order to reach, and to maintain, our ideal weight. My ideal weight is 112 and I already know I face a lifetime of hungry days to maintain 112. What works best for me is to save all my calories for one meal at the end of the day. That way, at least I can feel halfway-full once a day! Also, once I start eating I am hungry the rest of the day-- more so than if I wait to eat until late in the day. It's s trigger! AND, I find I am far less hungry if I make sure a good many of my calories come from fat. A 150-calorie tiny bag of chips is way more satisfying than a huge giant plate full of weeds!!:bigsmile:

are you exercising and not eating back calories?
have the same issue being 4'11" ... only 1200 calories allowed .. this week I;'m using the sleeping defence - putting myself to bed super early to avoid the kitchen

I'm also 4ft11

I used to think I could ONLY have 1200 calories a day back when I thought low-calorie/low-fat was the only way to lose weight. I felt restricted and hangry all the time.

Now I eat around 1400-1500 calories a day (give or take a few hundred) and all of those calories come from whole foods.

I eat: organic/grass fed meat, lots of organic vegetables, some fruit -mainly berries, nuts & plenty of good fats (yes, that includes butter!)

I don't eat: sugary/artificially sweetened beverages, processed junk food, refined/processed oils or anything labelled low-fat/diet.

I'm eating more, losing weight and I look and feel healthier than ever before

are you exercising and eating back your calories?

My maintenance calories usually say I should eat around 2000 calories a day, but I am STARVING an hour or 2 after every meal or snack. I try stay just a bit under 2000 since some sites say 1900-1700 to maintain. Is my metabolism faster than these sites are guessing? I'm 5'4, around 110lbs, 18 years old, I run/do other cardio 4-5 times a week and do weights/body weight exercises 3-5 times a week. Besides that I just lay around all day. I don't remember a time I have been fully satisfied! And yes, I'm drinking enough water.

I actually lose weight even on maintenance calories. I stay hungry because I have an enormous appetite; actually, I have a fast metabolism. I am on 700 so I can lose weight as quickly as possible, because I can't stick to a diet unless I see quick results.

sorry if someone asked already or you answered but:

Do you eat all your exercise calories back?

I get too hungry to do my diet unless I work out for an hour a day then eat all of the exercise calories back.

I have to eat approximately 3900 calories/day to feel comfortably full. And if I eat 3900 calories per day, I gain about 2 pounds per month. The reason I have a history of not maintaining weight loss success is that I was too often preoccupied with survival-- lifelong rock-bottom poverty as well as off-and-on homelessness living on the streets. My unstable weight reflected the instability of my life. I began dieting at age 14 in 1967 and averaged 2 major diets per year until 1996 when I started smoking cigarettes. Cigarettes help suppress my appetite. I only rarely had to diet after I started smoking-- until 2010. For right around 30 years, my ideal weight had been between 131 and 135. I hit menopause in 2006..By 2010, my weight-- which did not change-- redistributed. I had to reevaluate my ideal weight, because menopause changed me from an hourglass into an apple. So now, my best weight is 112. Coincidentally, that is the same weight I was at age 12 and 13! So I gained back to 131 in 2011, again in 2012, and to 127 in 2013, and dieted back down to 112 each time. I believe I could maintain if I knew exactly how many calories to eat. I tried the standard formula of 15 calories per pound per day (1680); however, I lost weight, albeit slowly, a pound or two per week I guess-- down to 108 one time, down to 109 the other time..I don't like being that thin because I lose too much volume in my bustline. However, the vanity pounds I am working on now are essential! BECAUSE, menopause shifted all my weight to my waistline. I chose 112 in order to have a waistline, and still have a bustline.