Hungry!!

Maybe re-evaluate how calorie goal - is it too aggressive? Consider foods with more volume

cuteangelkitten wrote: »

If you're hungry eat, it's your body telling you that you haven't had enough. These hunger signals are there for a reason

I disagree. We are going to be a little hungry if we are in an intentional deficit. We are “not having enough” on purpose! Now, if we are at 1200, it’s probably worth upping to 1350 for better health and a more reasonable loss. But if we aren’t that low, we still may feel a little hungry. All depends on what’s in the food diary, goals, etc.

You don't gain weight by going a little over one day. Just like losing weight takes a consistent, frequent and long term calorie deficit, weight gain takes consistent, frequent and long term calorie surplus.

What you're lacking here is perspective. Lets take someone set to lose 1lbs per week and they 'overate' by 250cal today their weekly deficit is still going to be 3250cals rather than 3500cals. So their rate of loss that week would be about 1.1oz lower. They'd lose 14.9oz instead of 16oz. Hardly a big deal in the grand scheme of things. Even if they 'overate' like that once every week they'd still be losing weight. Just at a rate approx 1lbs slower every 3 or 4 months.

The problem is people try to stick so strictly that it ends up backfiring. They end up miserable and hungry which leads to bingeing so rather than going over by 250cals they go over by way more. Or they decide that it's too hard and give up entirely.

Striving for perfection is the killer of long term results and the maker of misery. You don't have to be perfect, just pretty good, most of the time.