So Hungry

Your diet choices look very healthy(and delish!), but it looks like you are eating a lot of simple sugars in your fruits, which cause a spike in blood sugar and cause you to feel even hungrier later. Like a few others have said, more proteins in place of fruits would help you to feel fuller. I've noticed two things that help me feel full for not very many calories:
1.Eggy toast, which is basically two poached eggs eaten on a piece of toast, the yolk-y toast is eaten after the eggs, I usually like to have this with sriracha, for me this is 185 calories
2.Have you ever just sat down and drunk a whole pot of tea? I accidentally did this once when I was still hungry after dinner and I was so full I thought I would burst!

Good luck maintaining!

karenconey98 wrote: »

I feel mainly hungry during school and before and after dinner. The problem is that eating any more food always exceeds one of my goals, and I feel that they're a little too generous in the first place. It doesn't make sense that eating so that I'm not hungry is overeating, but seeing the amount of calories that everyone else eats my height causes me to second guess myself.

You have to play around with your macros and meal times until you find a combination that suits you. You are set at 45/20/35 CPF, try 35/30/35. Try spreading out your meals throughout the day - instead of three large meals, maybe have six small ones, so that by the time you get hungry, it's already time for the next meal.

Try lowering your consumption of simple carbs, and eat more of complex carbs. From Harvard Health Publications - "When you eat a food with a high rating on the glycemic index, enzymes in your digestive system attack its carbohydrates and furiously snip off simple sugars such as glucose. These quickly slip into the bloodstream. As blood sugar levels shoot up, cells in the pancreas churn out extra insulin. This hormone helps cells sponge up glucose. A surge of insulin also signals the body to store extra glucose as fat. Too much insulin may eventually drive blood sugar below the level your body needs to keep things running smoothly. This triggers responses that get your blood sugar levels back into the normal range. Hunger pangs are one of these."

Fiber makes you feel full too, so I suggest you increase your fiber if you aren't having much (fair warning - it might cause bloating for the first couple of days, so don't freak out, it'll go away as soon as it came).

ETA - As far as low calorie snacks are concerned, when I'm out of calories for the day but I'm still hungry, I binge on lettuce. It's not terribly nutritious except for a lot of vitamin A and a bit of some other micronutrients, but 100 grams of lettuce is only 15 calories.