I get hungry- really just can't eat less

Mallbu that is what is annoying. I tried to set it to 1 pound per week, but it wouldn't let me and defaulted to 350 kcal deficit/day, or 0.7 pounds/week. That's what the 1200 is for. And also why I need to be able to stick to the correct limit each day because it's barely a deficit in any case.

Run, again, I tried to set it at 1 lb, but it defaulted to 0.7 and will not budge. I definitely think eating more protein is a good suggestion. I already eat a lot of eggs/turkey/tuna/grilled chicken/chobani but I'll try going crazy on the protein tomorrow and see if that helps! Thanks!

Kallkel, that also is a good suggestion. I don't do the grocery shopping and the only fruits we have now are bananas, the only vegetables are potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, but I will try eating more of those tomorrow and see if that helps!

Allmand, that makes sense to eat carbs the night before, but I never have any calories left by nighttime. I'm always at or generally a couple hundred calories over my limit by 6 PM and then I can't eat after that. But that makes sense if I can make it work!

So I guess overall I should try to eat more fruits and vegetables and lower calories foods, and more protein and fiber, eat something with carbs the night before I run or swim, and try to figure out how to make MFP let me fix my pounds/week setting. THanks all.

But I think what some of you are getting at is that if I eat better quality foods, I'll be able to eat fewer calories and feel less hungry.

I think that's what you're getting at.

I'll try and see what happens.

Thanks.

Knight, I know! I feel like it's a lose-lose with how many carbs I'm eating. Also I do not run 10 miles everyday, if I said that I was exaggerating. Sorry. A lot of days I actually run less than 10 miles plus there is alternative exercise I do too.

Yes, I'm definitely not logging correctly. Basically what I do is keep a running total of calories, and then enter it at the end of the day. I should probably start logging correctly. You are right.

No, I do not weigh my food. I either look at the package or look it up online. Also I know that people overestimate their calories, so if it's not directly from the package and I'm taking it from online, I take the highest one I can find to make sure. Ex. for a random bagel it is counted as 450, not 250. Or something like that. So that at least is good.

I am eating back all of my exercise calories. MFP wants me to eat 1200 + exercise and I am eating about 1400 + exercise and still feel hungry!

I guess the conclusion is I need to do a better job of figuring out what I'm doing now before I can determine what I'm doing wrong and what I need to change. I will start working on this. I can't ever weigh my food because I live at home and it would look suspicious, but I can definitely log exactly what foods I'm eating instead of just the day's total. Anyways, thanks all.

That actually is worse then... that means I should actually be trying to eat even less. So basically, instead of for today (10 miles) 1200 + 780 = 1980 target, I instead have 1200 + 670 = 1870 target. That's awful.

So now I'm even further off. Or rather, I was that far off before but failed to realize it.

I just don't understand why this is making me hungry if I'm not even at a deficit (ex. if 1200 is -350, and 1870 is the equivalent if you count in exercise, and I ate +305 over that, then I'm at -45 for the day which pretty much approaches 0...). Maybe it is a psychological thing because I thought I was under-eating even though in reality I was not.

I don't think my questions have good answers for the record. Feel free to not answer if this is something I need to work on figuring out for myself (I think it is). I'm going to try to up my food quality using all the suggestions and then see how it goes. I suppose I can also fix my exercise to calories conversion (grudgingly).