Did your baby greens have some nice oil or protein with it? I can last for hours if I've added fat and protein.

SkinnyKerinny wrote: »

I just ate a huge salad of baby greens at 9:30 this morning because I was so hungry. I doubt this will last until dinner so I thought it would be awesome if we shared "go to" foods for situations like this. I haven't been so hungry like this since starting the LC 2 weeks ago. The only thing different today is a little less sleep and started taking potassium. It's probably getting less sleep that's making me so hungry.

I'll definitely be drinking a lot of water today but I'm hoping not to go over my calories if possible.

So do you have any fav foods that are low cal and LC?

Id like to know this too. Its unfortunate that most low-carb/high-fat foods are high calorie, and LCHF or not calories in vs calories out matter a great deal to me. I find myself going hungry a lot because all the things i can think of to eat would send my calories over.

I'm tracking calories, too. But if I had to make a choice, and I sometimes do, I'd choose a little over calories but keep to low carb. So if you are not dairy free, for me that would be a cheese wedge and some kielbasa. Nuts, of course, but they are so high carb. I keep tuna, salmon and rotisserie chicken on hand, and I eat the skin or tear of a bit of meat.
It's a struggle, learning to eat this way and succeed every day. So if I have high carb days, pardon me: WHEN I have high carb days, they are only high carb compared to how I WANT to be eating, not compared to how I used to eat or the SAD. Same goes for calories, some days are better than others.
But this is endurance rather than sprint eating. If we are eating this way for life then highs and lows are probably better expected and embraced, rather than beating ourselves up.
Awkward sentence. But I think the meaning comes through. If you are hungry, eat. Drink some water/tea/broth/coffee. And move on.
You are on the right path, that you are choosing for yourself.
Did you ever before picture yourself eating a ton of lovely greens in the morning? You rock.

A tums usually knocks out acid related hunger

A pregnant lady shared that with me

Just chew to calcium fortified tums and give it 10 minutes

I do that maybe once every week or so when a weird hunger pang strikes

Salty meat like a chunk of beef jerky and a big glass of water helps me

Or celery dipped in yogurt based salad dressing

I also read this. I would be hungry all the time. Even as I ate or right after. I would have to stuff my self to not feel that way. I read it could be from acid reflux even if I didn't have heartburn. So now I just take a low dose all day pill and it has helped.

professionalHobbyist wrote: »

A tums usually knocks out acid related hunger

A pregnant lady shared that with me

Just chew to calcium fortified tums and give it 10 minutes

I do that maybe once every week or so when a weird hunger pang strikes

Salty meat like a chunk of beef jerky and a big glass of water helps me

Or celery dipped in yogurt based salad dressing

I used eat a hard boiled egg. They last up to a week after cooking. Only 70 calories, portable, and filling.

I am having a hard time sticking to my calorie goal. I do not feel satisfied with the foods I eat, so I am constantly going over my calorie goal. A single egg would do NOTHING for me. Nuts do nothing for me. It's frustrating.

SkinnyKerinny wrote: »

I used to have antacids all the time. Then I read that heartburn is caused from too little acid. I took some HCL acid supplements and in a few days there was no more heartburn. Also Tums have some carbs.

I will look that up! Thank you for sharing !

Try more fat. Scary but you can do it. MORE FAT

Another LCHF idea is a teaspoon of nut butter. Unsalted natural peanut butter has 32 calories, 1 g of carbs, 1 g of protein and 3 g of fat. It is usually enough to take the edge off for me. Macadamia nut butter is outrageous both in taste and cost but worth the indulgence now and then.

Using pork skins to scoop up egg salad is very filling! When I have it for lunch I hardly want anything for dinner.

wheatlessgirl66 wrote: »

Using pork skins to scoop up egg salad is very filling! When I have it for lunch I hardly want anything for dinner.

Pork skins are REALLY high calorie too. Snacking on those sends my calories through the roof (and then comes the weight gain). Love them to bits but on a low-calorie allowance there is very little room for such calorie dense snacks (unless you have a super small portion - and then it probably wouldnt fill you)

Can you tell that i am hungry and tried all these options and failed?! Cheese is another bad one to snack on imo if you're on low calories. Neither pork skins, cheese nor nut butter are low-calorie or filling in small portions to me, and they can cause over-eating.

I tend to have an egg coffee for a snack if im hungry (literally a large black coffee blended with 1 raw egg). The fluid volume helps to fill you, along with the fats & proteins in the egg. I also tend to go for a large black coffee with 1 tbsp HWC if my tummy rumbles between meals - again, its the volume of fluid, and then the creamy taste satisfies you a little, along with the bit of fat. I will also snack on a couple of celery sticks with Franks Hot Sauce sometimes, if i feel like something solid to crunch on. The fiber takes the edge of the hunger a little. Other than that a little chunk of meat left-overs (roast pork/lamb/beef/steak) is what i will grab if i have some to hand. Or a hard-boiled egg. Although its usually coffee with cream and/or egg lately. Its quick, easy, tasty & i tell myself im having a full BPC, which is a meal (even though it isnt), just to try to trick myself into feeling less denied lol.

BUT i would say, it is starting to dawn on me that when you are on very low calories there are always times you are going to feel hungry, and sometimes, if you want to lose weight, you have to decide to put up with the hunger until your next meal time, or consciously decide to go over cals and not lose weight. Frankly i NEVER have a spare 200-300 calories for a truly filling snack, and im not prepared anymore to keep putting myself through low calories all day to ruin it all by going over calories for the sake of one snack. It would be great to be able to have 3 full meals and 1 or 2 satisfying snacks a day and to feel full all the time, but i cant have my cake and eat it - if i consume enough food to satiate me, i dont lose weight. Simple. If i want to lose fat it looks like im going to have to be a little uncomfortable at times. I suppose that's life - nothing worth doing is easy and there is always a pay-off for anything desirable.

Im in a bit of a hangry mood atm, as you can probably tell, but i just wanted to share that to lose weight some of us have to really come out of our comfort zone, and overcome the need to have a comfortably full belly all the time. Im, tired of trying to discover this magical food that will fill me up, not send me over my carbs, and not add many calories. Fact is, low-carb high-fat food tends to be high in calories, so a small snack can really add up.

I would say that low-carb/keto does satiate you more than if you ate the equivalent daily calories of higher carb foods, but let's face it, if your calories are really low, hunger will come calling at some point (mine is every other day - i do great on 1 day of 1000 cals, but next day im starving and have been snacking and raising to 1200, then next day i feel strong enough again to drop back to 1000). Its frustrating though because on my low calorie days i lose weight, great!... then the next day when i snack and raise my cals slightly to 1200, i gain it all back! So this is why im starting to think that some of us dont have the option of snacks or full satiation whilst losing weight.

Hey Knit babes, were you talking to me?

If so, ive sincerely tried upping my calories, to 1300-1400, and occasionally maintenance, and the few days i did it i gained weight every day. It freaked me out tbh, as it was going on in lumps of 2-3lbs a day! and so i put my calories back down and the weight started very slowly going down again. Maybe i didnt give it long enough for things to even out, but i couldnt bare to undo all the hard work ive put in this past couple months by gaining everything back, and rapidly. I just cant risk it. Sensibly speaking, my TDEE is apparently 1500 cals, so 1300-1400 cals would only give me a deficit of 100-200 cals. You need a deficit of 500 cals a day to lose about 1 lb a week, apparently, so even if i didnt gain on those higher calories (which i do) i really couldnt expect to lose much with such a small deficit. Im far too impatient for that!

The general consensus seems that 500 cals deficit per day below TDEE is about right for a slow & steady loss of about 1lb a week. Well, 500 cal deficit works out to 1000 cals a day for me - so i guess it makes sense that i have to go that low to see a decent weight-loss. I suppose theres no way to get around it unfortunately... short of growing a few inches taller (why do i have to be such a midget?!).

Its still weird though that i GAIN weight at only 1300-1400 cals, as its still slightly below TDEE. It does make me wonder exactly how im managing that? It shouldnt be technically possible.

*Hugs*

I second knit.

I also don't see how you could immediately gain with a single slightly higher calorie day, that sounds like water weight to me. Give it at least a month on at least 1300 calories per day to see. You shouldn't need to be hungry to lose with this woe, I regularly eat less than 1000 cals and am satisfied completely.

SkinnyKerinny wrote: »

I just ate a huge salad of baby greens at 9:30 this morning because I was so hungry. I doubt this will last until dinner so I thought it would be awesome if we shared "go to" foods for situations like this. I haven't been so hungry like this since starting the LC 2 weeks ago. The only thing different today is a little less sleep and started taking potassium. It's probably getting less sleep that's making me so hungry.

I'll definitely be drinking a lot of water today but I'm hoping not to go over my calories if possible.

So do you have any fav foods that are low cal and LC?

Eat.

You're hungry today because you have been 700-900 calories shy for most of the past week or so, and even the times you were over, it doesn't make up for the times you were under (even if you want to say that you only actually burned about half what MFP is giving you credit for).

Your hunger is going to fluctuate over the course of the week and month. That's okay, as long as the week averages out at a net deficit. One of the benefits of this way of eating is that most people find their hunger signals become reliable again.