How to kill "being hungry feeling"?

What else are u eating during the day? My experience is that u probably need more protein and GOOD fats to keep u satisfied during the day plus the body needs adequate amounts of both of these to perform its cellular functions. At night, u cud have a small amount of protein (1oz-like a rolled slice of turkey) to make sure ur blood sugar doesn’t drop while sleeping. Don’t forget that being hungry may cause metabolism to go into starvation mode and hold onto weight instead of losing, that’s the exact opposite of what we want!

You may be eating too little in general...what are your goals ("Lose 2 pounds per week"?) and how much weight are you trying to lose? The less you have to lose, the more you really need to be eating. Cutting too much leads to problems, as you may have found out here...

When I was in weight loss mode I had to continue to INCREASE my calorie goal to nearly my maintenance calories as I got closer to my goal weight.

If you're hungry all the time maybe try having one or two days per week where you eat at Maintenance calories.

ayamourada92 wrote: »

I am always hungry even if I eat a lot of vegetables during the day but I still feel hungry..
What should I do to be able to eat a big quantity of food..

Nowadays, I only have 2 big meals .. breakfast and lunch..

I go to sleep feeling hungry and wake up with the same feeling.. I don't know what should I do??

What are your protein and fat goals and are you hitting them?

Are you eating enough/did you choose too aggressive a deficit?

Sounds like you might want to look at eating more, smaller meals. Maybe 3 meals instead of 2 - that would give you some fuel in the evening. Personally, I like to wake up a little bit hungry - but I do not like to go to bed hungry! Agree with others as well, look at your macros and see if you're getting enough healthy fat and protein to keep you feeling sated longer. Also, look at water - are you getting enough?

I have no idea what you are eating during the day but if you are hungry --- eat more.

Like... there are some reasons you may 'feel' hungry that aren't true hunger (like boredom, stress, anxiety, depression, cravings...etc.) -- but figuring out what hungry feels like to your body is important so that when you are hungry you know you need to eat more.

You should not be going to bed hungry. I'm sure if you sat down and looked at what you're eating through the day vs. what your body's caloric needs are --- you have too large of a deficit.

Hunger should take several days for you to notice. We weren't hungry back when we could only get food every 1-2 days.. most of our existence.. but what we call hunger today, happens when our blood sugars get low.

When we eat carbs, even vegetables, it turns into glucose, spikes our blood sugar, and we feel full, when it drops down near 70 mg/dL, we feel hungry, and want to eat. As a lid, we forgot lunch, until our Mom made us eat, because our bodies weren't messed up from eating excess carbs for decades. We didn't feel hunger at noon, even though we were running and burning calories all day long.

Most adults have a imbalance, and they eat way too many carbs, and by now, their body has learned to spike it.. often above healthy levels ( over 125 mg/dL ), and then it drops rapidly.. so when we eat cereal, with sugary milk, and a bagel, we feel hungry in 3 hours.. so we eat more, despite plenty of calories eaten. Which is why we overeat. What we do is eat more carbs, and repeat this cycle, and we tell ourselves that 3 meals isn't enough.. we need 2 snacks as well, and then we might even have a late night snack or meal, if we are still hungry. You SHOULD be OK with 2-3 meals, if you eat foods which don't spike your blood sugar, and then bottom out if you don't eat every few hours.

Fat almost has no effect on blood sugars. Protein has a minor effect, and carbs all turn into glucose, so these spike your blood sugar, how much depends on how many carbs the food has.. obviously a doughnut, is worse than green beans. You can eat too many green beans though. It's a lot, but we don't need ANY carbs. There is NO essential carb amount.. you could eat zero carbs, and be fine, as long as you got your nutrients from other sources.. carbs taste good though, and we can eat some carbs, and be fine, plus it's easier to get all your nutrients.. so I expect you will eat some.. BUT.

If you are hungry, and having cravings.. fat & protein are not the problem.. carbs ARE.. and to deal with cravings/hunger, you need to figure out your carbs.

How much you can handle varies, and it's quite simple.. just cut carbs 50% to start.. and see if the cravings/hunger stop, and if not, just keep cutting. At some point, if you are eating enough calories, your cravings/hunger should disappear. For me, it is 30 grams a day. I do best under 20 g. I am diabetic though. If you catch this earlier, you don't need to cut as much, to correct this problem, and it IS a problem.. craving/hunger after a few hours, should not happen.. EVER. It isn't normal, and while you hear about this lack of cravings/hunger usually from very low carb people like me.. it doesn't have to be that way.. you don't have to wait until you are diabetic.. you could eat cleaner carbs, at maybe 100g a day, and not feel any cravings/hunger, because you won't overtax your body with glucose, and Insulin, and mess up how the body works.

If we did this, instead of eating 50% or more from carbs, cravings/hunger between meals would be rare, instead of commonplace. We need to avoid this condition, not learn how to overcome feeling hungry, which we almost always fail at, and should never experience hopefully.

On high fat, moderate protein, and very low carb, I was looking for weight loss, and of course control of my diabetes, without more meds.. and I got that. Losing all the cravings/hunger, was a benefit that just happened along the way, allowing me to eat exactly what I want, when I want. Which helps of course.. calories still matter, but more important than calories, is carbs.. not because they are more caloric, but because eating carbs, causes us to eat MORE, and those EXCESS calories are the problem, are they not?

I think all of us know how to make a 1500-2000 calorie menu, that would make our doctors, and dietitians cry out of happiness.. IF we could only actually eat what we plan.

Once we admit that the type of food.. how we get our calories, matters, and is WHY we overeat, or do NOT.. we can choose foods which do not cause us to overeat. Healthy people can still eat quite a few carbs, just nowhere near what the govt. recommends, and from a much smaller selection of carby foods.. more non-starchy veggies, less fruit, dairy, legumes, and very few grains if any.

You would be amazed at how many CUPS of non-starchy veggies you can eat, and not hit 40 g of carbohydrates. These foods don't cause cravings, but ALSO.. if you eat 5 cups of green beans.. you will likely be full.. especially if you add 2 Tbsp. of butter. Half the carbs are fiber. High fat, enough protein, and a good volume of non-starchy vegetables, and you should easily be full for a good 8-12 hours, if you only want to eat twice a day.

Therefore, as Ann said, I disagree with your suggestion that everyone should follow your personal eating preferences or that you know -- as you oddly claim -- how others must eat in order not to be hungry.

Sums it up.

Eat the calories

I agree with the posts that have suggested experimenting with what makes you full, personally.

As a personal anecdote, I remember when I first went vegan, I was mostly eating low-fat, moderate protein, high carb whole foods. At first, I was pretty happy because I got to eat a ton of food and I had always considered myself a volume-eater, but then I kept feeling hungry all the time. Curious, I bumped up my fats from 25-30ish grams to about 50 grams. Sure enough, the hunger went away. After a while, I started strength training and felt hungry again. I bumped up the protein in my meals from 16-20 grams a meal to about 25-30 grams per meal and suddenly, I quit feeling like gnawing someone's arm off.

Now, I would describe my diet as having a moderate amount of fat and protein, with a high amount of carbs (~200 grams) But what works for me doesn't work for everybody--it might not even work for the posters in this thread! The important thing, I think, is just to play around with your diet and be mindful of what meals worked, what meals left you hungry, and how you feel at the end of the day. Once you have that information, you can tweak your diet, as needed