starving

Yeah I get like that sometimes..I just try and find something low cal and try and just eat a half serving of it and see if it helps.. Just to get me through

Same here! I usually have those days following weekends that I strayed from my diet! Yeabby is right, water and hot tea seem to help. Good luck!

Find foods with fiber and complex carbs, those take longer to digest and help you feel fuller longer.

I noticed in your pic you have a young baby. Are you breastfeeding? If you are its possible baby is having a growth spurt and taking more from you. I've been dealing with this as well and I'm thinking I may need to adjust my calories a little for my baby's sake.

I get that way about a week and a half before TOM. I feel like I can eat an entire cow and still be hungry.

Same here.

When I feel like that, I find that a small amount of exercise, such as 10-50 jumping jacks (done until breathing speeds up), helps. I think it coaxes the liver into releasing a little bit of glucose and/or fatty acids into the bloodstream.

Try drinking a huge glass of water. I've read that a lot of times when you think you are hungry, you are really just thirsty. I tried it (even though I hate water) and it works for me. It can't hurt to try it. :drinker:

And if you drink a glass of water and 30 minutes later you are still hungry, it could be that you are actually needing to eat. Try something high in protein... :happy:

I had one of those days Saturday, and it did not end until I went to bed! I had small servings of all my desires, and recorded everything--- all of it! Compared to "before", it was not as bad as it could have been. Don't get me wrong, it was a bad day! My food diary was twice as long as usual. Sunday, I began again, and recorded and planned everything, making sure I ate foods that were from one of my best days. I slipped only once, and Monday was back on track. Take every day one at a time! Try soups, too! Good luck.

In my experience that's when I'm about to drop weight (assuming I'm not undereating and experiencing necessary hunger).

After hitting maintenance, it was due to TOM or eating/drinking too much artificial sugar.

I go through that one day per month, what I have come to call my "ravenous days" because it seems like I can eat and eat and eat and eat and never find a satisfied point. Last month, it was Cheeze Its. My MIL nicely bought us a box (it was the baked ones, at least) and I don't like to say no thank you to her when she is trying to help. Usually my kids will eat them before they start to call to me. I didn't eat the whole box, thankfully. I would get one serving at a time and two big glasses of water. I only ended up like 200 calories over for the day, but I went to bed starving! The next morning, I was worried I would want a bigger breakfast, and I was fine. There's nothing wrong with 1 bad day a month... it's when you have multiple bad days in a row that you're starting to break your good habits.

I've been feeling hungry a lot lately and my boyfriend keeps asking if I'm starving myself haha. I'm just following the calorie outline according to what the website says. Perhaps I'm not eating enough carbs and fiber. I think I really need to put together better meals for lunch and dinner so I don't get so hungry. I'm set on no cheating!!!