Question....PLEASE Help!

Are you getting enough water? I was told early on our body sometimes gives off the hunger signal and what we need is water.

Denise-
You're exercising more so there's a really good chance your body is telling you it needs the nourishment to keep it up. I have those days too, so I eat some extra good calories to keep my energy up.
Sometimes if I'm starving but don't have many calories to give up, I have a salad. That satisfaction of eating, chewing, flavor, but very few calories.
That's just my humble guestimate as to what is going on.
Keep up the GREAT work!
Sandi

Hmmm, if you are eating enough calories, feeling that hungry might mean that there's something missing in your diet. I note that you say you eat lots of protein and fruit and veg. Do you need some complex carbs (wholegrain bread, brown rice, oatmeal)?
It might be worth seeing a doctor to see if your bloodwork is normal and you're not deficient in some vitamin or mineral.

OK - here is my secret - and I swear by it..... Protein and vegetables in every meal, breakfast, lunch and dinnner....

Your diary looks reasonably good - but if I was you I would bulk up with more vegetables - Brocolli, Carrots, Cauliflower, Zuchinni, Mushrooms, Baby Spinach....... Corn on the cob is nice - but high calorie - you can eat a lot more of the veges I just listed for the same calories......

And eat as much as you like of the vegetables (some days I will eat an entire head of brocolli) - I promise you the hunger will go away!! When I do get hungry (3:30itis) I make sure I eat protein - low fat cottage cheese with some carrot or sweet pepper, yoghurt with some berries, 50 grams of lean ham - the trick is protein - you eat a reasonable amount, but I would spread it more evenly in your day....

A dietician I saw recons if you exercise quite a bit you can eat 1.5 to 2 grams of protein for each kg of body weight...

Awesome suggestion. 100% agree.

Firstly, congratulations on that amazing progress! That's nearly 3 lbs per week since November 26th, if I did the math right! Great job!

Often when we first start out losing weight, we start out at with a very large calorie deficit and the pounds start melting away fast. Over time, the closer we get to our goal weight, the smaller the deficit should get, until eventually we reach the goal, and our deficit becomes 0 - back to maintenance level.

I think you can afford to make your deficit a little smaller at this point. You've been losing 3 lbs per week. You should consider changing that to 2 lbs/week now. Then a couple months later, 1 lb/week, then half a lb, then finally change to maintenance calories when you get to your goal. With each increase, you will feel less and less hungry until you are finally at your goal weight and eating the same amount of calories that you're burning - equilibrium.

You've must have been amazingly disciplined up until this point. Keep up the terrific hard work and know that it's perfectly valid to make small incremental changes along the way.

Best of luck!

I looked at your weight goals and it seems that you're hungry all the time because you simply need more calories! I'm in your weight range and I eat 1800 calories to lose. The bare minimum that an adult woman over 18 should eat is 1500, and it's higher if you're younger than that. You're trying to feed your body less than that, and it thinks it's starving and isn't happy. Plus you're burning more calories since you're working out. Try eating a goal of 1700-1800 calories for a week or two and see how you feel. It sounds weird, but you really need to eat to lose. It can also help prevent plateaus from happening.