Hungry

Suly09
Suly09 Posts: 88 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
What do you do when at the end of the day you are hungry but you already maxed out all your calories for the day?

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  • kimothyschma
    kimothyschma Posts: 209 Member
    Drink herbal tea. Or if it's been getting hard for a while, I'll consider taking a couple maintenance days.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    Did you exercise today? If so did you eat any of them?

    If no exercise, I would eat. A couple hundred cals is most likely going to keep you around maintenance or still in a slight deficit. You could choose to eat a little less tomorrow and/or the next day and still be within your weekly total calories to lose weight.

    If this is a one time thing no big deal, but if you know you will be hungrier later, start saving you calories for this time.
  • Katimira
    Katimira Posts: 50 Member
    MFP has me at about a 500 calories deficit every day. If I'm still hungry, I eat a portion of lean protein for up to 100 calories of those 500 (Egg whites, shrimp, etc). It makes me feel full.
  • Do a walk off the pounds video for 15 minutes if it's early enough, but usually just ignore it or go over by a bit if it's later.
  • LuckyAndi
    LuckyAndi Posts: 203 Member
    A piece of hard candy usually works for me, if I'm not super hungry. If I am legitimately hungry, I'll go with a bag of steamed vegetables and/or lean deli meat, or some cottage cheese.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,993 Member
    If I'mm hungry then it goes away if I work out for some reason. Anything strength works best for me.
  • tirowow12385
    tirowow12385 Posts: 697 Member
    Embrace it.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Suly09 wrote: »
    What do you do when at the end of the day you are hungry but you already maxed out all your calories for the day?

    i would eat something, and then look at changing my macros/deficit so that i wasn't always so hungry.
  • 1houndgal
    1houndgal Posts: 558 Member
    edited February 2018
    Suly09 wrote: »
    What do you do when at the end of the day you are hungry but you already maxed out all your calories for the day?

    I would eat sensibly, log it all. Tomorrow is a new day to do "better".
  • amgreenwell
    amgreenwell Posts: 1,267 Member
    Drink a whole bunch of water... or readjust my calories during the day so that I can get in a snack at night. I pre-log most everything so I know exactly what my day is going to look like. I always leave a little extra just in case.
  • chantalemarie
    chantalemarie Posts: 65 Member
    if you do even a 10 minute pure cardio video, you might lose 100-200 calories, that could be enough for a snack.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    if you do even a 10 minute pure cardio video, you might lose 100-200 calories, that could be enough for a snack.

    200 cals for 10 minutes working out... i wish!!!!
  • Crafty_camper123
    Crafty_camper123 Posts: 1,440 Member
    Eat. Do better tomorrow. Knowing what your maintenance is, and thinking of your calorie goal as a weekly average instead of a day by day thing is helpful. Blew 200 over goal?? Eat 28 calories less for 7 days. Burn 28 calories more, etc. Looking at your macros may give you insight on why you were so hungry all day. For example if I don't get enough protein at breakfast, it mucks my whole day up and I'm hangry by dinner. Hope this helps! Good luck!
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