1700 calories, sedentary female, 5'5, 213lb and still hungry

I try to always eat a protein with any fruit. Otherwise it puts me into hunger overdrive.
I will have an apple and a hard boiled egg.
Learning ways to keep myself from spiking my blood sugar has really helped me.

jgnatca wrote: »

Here's a cheater's way to log a salad that MFP purists may find offensive. I will sometimes log salads as a generic bag salad an cut up veggies as a generic entry, crudités. The calorie count will be lower so I am not as concerned.

I've never weighed salad ingredients, except for protein and dressing, in the year that I've been doing this. A large lettuce salad is 45 calories. I'll throw in a couple dozen calories for other vegetables. It's jut not worth the effort to weigh 20 grams of cucumber.

neecewa1 wrote: »

I know it sounds extreme but the only way I could shrink my stomach back to normal and get my cravings under control was a three day water fast. If you don't have a lot of health problems look up the benefits and how to do it. They use it to help chemo patients build up their immune system. My friend lost 150 lbs and got her eating under control for the first time in her life using a plan called omnitrician, one phase limits you to 900 calories a day and it was Dr. supervised. It's really shocking how many calories we don't need but our body craves. Fitbit app has helped me most because it actually shows calories burned vs calorie intake, instead of adjusting up for any exercise. Helped me figure out I was consuming way too much. My cravings and hunger is now under control. Also helped knowing our bodies freak out whenever there is a deficit and tell us to eat more even though we shouldn't. It's a survival thing from way back.

Did you know that everything in your post is wrong and/or against MFP guidelines? Your stomach doesn't shrink, you don't need a "lot" of health problems for three days of fasting to have a negative impact on you, they do NOT use water fasting for chemo patients to build up their immune system, you do not need to eat 900 calories to lose weight or get your eating under control, and your body does not freak out when it's in a deficit. Yikes. Incidentally, 1700 calories isn't even that steep a deficit for OP unless she's much more active than she claims.

OP, as most of the people above have stated, upping fat, fiber, and protein helps. Play around with timing, even 16:8 fasting if it works for your lifestyle. But one thing that jumped out at me in your follow-up comments is your lack of sleep. Did you know that you're depressing your leptin (satiety hormone) and increasing your ghrelin (hunger hormone) production? I've certainly experienced this myself--4 hours of sleep and I can't get full.

Definitely work on playing around with meal timing and macro intake, but it might come down to sleep hygiene.

judywoody wrote: »

barbecuesauce wrote: »

But one thin)g that jumped out at me in your follow-up comments is your lack of sleep. Di you know that you're depressing your leptin (satiety hormone) and increasing your ghrelin (hunger hormone) production? I've certainly experienced this myself--4 hours of sleep and I can't get full.

Definitely work on playing around with meal timing and macro intake, but it might come down to sleep hygiene.

I am trying to get to bed at 10 but my hubby is a night owl which makes it difficult sometimes. Ideally I should got to bed at 9pm.Mind you, before I started this job I worked shifts and sometimes slept up to 11 hrs uf I had to start later in the day.. eek

My calorie target is deliberately high, I want to lose veeeery slowly. Don't care if it takes 2 years. I just don't wanna be hungry

Today was good. I had my salad at 4.30 pm and then ahem.. an ice cream. I am not feeling hungry today like the days before so the big protein breakfast definitely did it for me

I think losing slowly is a healthy attitude toward it, I was aiming my comment more for the person suggesting that you lose in a dangerous way. 900 calories is a fantastic way to lose too much muscle mass and end up skinny fat.

I hope the big protein breakfast is the thing that works for you!