I ate all my day's calories for breakfast because I was hungry.
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Maybe change up your food choices to see if that helps stave off hunger more effectively? More protein, fiber, or healthy fat in some different combo than what you're currently eating?4
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Are three exercise sessions a day normal for you? At that level of activity, I'm not surprised that you are starving, especially if you are trying to lose 1.5-2 lbs. a week so have cut back on your calories significantly. Unless you still have 50+ pounds to go, I would cut back the deficit to 1 lb. a week or less and fuel the exercise properly.
Given your history of yo-yo dieting, you really need to change something that you are doing, whether it's too drastic a calorie reduction or too much exercise or just going back to 'normal' eating once you've lost the weight. You know how to lose, but you don't know how to maintain and that's really the most important part of weight loss.
Keep in mind the Biggest Loser contestants who were able to lose huge amounts of weight, but the great majority ended up back where they started a year or so after they lost the weight. I know personally about long distance hikers who don't cut back on calories when they are hiking, but due to the huge amount of calories they burn hiking all day every day are always starving. When they reach town, they have to pig out to catch up on the calories they burned. By the end of the hike they are 'lean, mean, hiking machines'. But 6 months to a year later the weight is almost always back because it is not a sustainable lifestyle. Not many people can exercise 10 hours a day. IOW, losing weight is relatively easy, keeping it off takes a different kind of focus - figuring out what is sustainable for the rest of your life.15 -
dontlikepeople wrote: »Walkywalkerson wrote: »Also maybe you're carb sensitive?
I don't do keto but I try not to have too many carbs as they leave me hungry within an hour.
Maybe give low - ish carb a try.
Keto is a cult. I did keto for years when I was younger and never got lean until I started eating carbs. People get excited for the first big whoosh where you lose all of your bodyweight, but there's a reason why roughly zero professional athletes or bodybuilders do keto year round. At this point the marketing teams all across the internet love it. Keto all the things! Keto cheesepuffs, keto cookies, keto etc etc etc. Low carb is absolutely terrible for anything long term, or anyone looking for real athletic performance.
I agree - Keto ( for me ) would be another unsustainable fad
They key is to find something sustainable forever for YOU - that's it.
It's not easy - that's why people regain the weight they lost.5 -
When I have a binge that lasts 2 days, I take a diet break and eat at maintenance. OP states he doesn’t have much left to lose so start reducing the deficit to practice for maintenance. There is no prize for rapid weight loss. I have lost 85 pounds and have been unable to exercise from this April until this week. Set mfp to lose 0.5 lbs/wk to maintain. This past month, had a diet break and lost the tiny weight gain in 4 days. Evidently it was mostly food and waste. I am back exercising with a 250 calorie deficit again. Feel very refreshed and not hungry.
Unless you plan on living with an 800+ calorie deficit for the rest of your life, I would suggest throwing in some days at maintenance each week as practice for a lifetime.9 -
dontlikepeople wrote: »Why is someone so butt hurt as to put a disagree on my post? Explain what I've done that is offensive. I had a rough time over eating this morning, have no other diet support structure, and wanted to share. This is why I deleted my account last time. I lost over 150lbs using myfitnesspal, MOST of the people on the community have been great, but I don't really understand the absolute poor attitude I receive from a handful of people who are filled with nothing but hate in their heart.
i just want to give you a hug and im not a touchy feely person.
especially on here. i mean, look at my username. ask around. i mean, im loved or hated, not much in-between
lets look at a few things, okay? You've lost a LOT of weight. So have I (more than you, even). So, I do know EXACTLY where you are coming from. I GET IT. So, everything I say, I say coming from where you are.
If you are hungry, and you know if you are beyond the NORMAL hungry, because you're right- we ALL get hungry- Eat something. Even if it means you go over your calories. I'm not talking celery or tea, real food. Going over a day will NOT undo all your hard work- I PROMISE! And with an 800 calorie deficit (which is probably way too much).... you can eat something pretty substantial and STILL be in a deficit! Have a PB&J sandwich! youd STILL be in a deficit! most of my MEALS come in under 800 cals LOL! Anyway, you get the idea. Eat. It's fine. I promise. You will not undo anything.
I had lost around 180 pounds when I took a maintenance break for about 2 years. I didn't necessarily intend for it to be that long, but I also don't regret that it was. Started back this year to lose the rest. Down 50, 30 to go. On maintenance this month. I learned a LOT during that 2 year period. Mainly, how to maintain. And that is a REALLY important thing to learn BEFORE you get there. I think that is why we see so many people lose their weight, and then see them gain it back. I'm not saying take a 2 year break, or even a month break. But taking short breaks to learn HOW to eat at maintenance, as you get closer to your goal, can help teach you what life will be like 'after' and how to maintain what you have worked so hard for.
Another thing, and you may have said and I missed it, but how close to your goal weight are you? The closer you get, the smaller your deficit will get. You should not be lower your calories, your calories should be getting close to your maintenance calories. This means your weight loss will slow. You can't expect a 2 pound a week loss with 20 pounds to go like you could when you had 100 pounds to lose. It's not fair, right? But, that's the way it is. And, it helps your body adjust to eating closer to maintenance.
You've got this! Be kind to yourself. You have lost an AMAZING amount of weight, and you are not going to undo it by eating at or even near maintenance for a day, or even for an extended period (you're going to have to eat at maintenance eventually, right??) Even if you go OVER.... it wont undo anything. I go over all the time. truly. Not often enough to UNDO anything. But once or twice a month? yup. no biggie.
People genuinely want to help. I don't think I saw anyone trying to sabotage you But... if you are HUNGRY, and like I said, YOU know if its real hunger or just the munchies hunger, or the normal hungry we all feel all the time, eat something. even if its some yogurt, or something small, but make it real food with some nutritional value. Playing with your macros, too, might help find a combination that is more satiating for you that what you currently have (and that takes time and experimentation).
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dontlikepeople wrote: »Why is someone so butt hurt as to put a disagree on my post? Explain what I've done that is offensive. I had a rough time over eating this morning, have no other diet support structure, and wanted to share. This is why I deleted my account last time. I lost over 150lbs using myfitnesspal, MOST of the people on the community have been great, but I don't really understand the absolute poor attitude I receive from a handful of people who are filled with nothing but hate in their heart.
I'm not sure who disagreed but I think you are way over reacting and reading too much emotion into it.
Probably nobody was butt hurt or had hate in their heart or found your post offensive.
They just disagreed with something, that's all.
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dontlikepeople wrote: »Roughly an 800 calorie per day deficit most weeks, 1.5 to 2lbs per week, consistently, for the past year.
I have lost weight many times, and have always had intense hunger. Even when I was maintaining at 15% I was very hungry all the time. I am glad you have an easier time of it though.
How much more weight do you need to lose until you reach goal? Your rate of loss may be too aggressive now.
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Since someone decided to revive the thread:
I went ahead and ate like 3,000 calories that day. I felt much better the next day. I'm pretty sure my body was just screaming out for calories, I had just gotten done with a pretty intense week of exercise. Despite all the food I didn't even put on any weight, and I'm still happily losing weight consistently.
What's most important is self love. Sometimes we're hungry and we need to eat, no problems with that!
Thanks!11 -
I often have days when I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. Other days I can get to early afternoon and realise I haven't eaten all day. Our bodies are weird machines.
Not giving advice because I don't think you wanted any. Just know that it happens to others too!3 -
It can happen. And while working out and in a calorie deficit I for sure get extra hungry. I trick myself by making a mini POT of soup with tons of low cal veggies and a bit of protein and it is VERY filling
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I totally get it. After successfully losing about 25 lb it all crept up on me again.. I decided to start logging in again. The breakfast alone I had that day was almost 700 cal. Don't even give these people, the naysayers a second of your thought.. I remember the last time I was here. there was a thread, where someone postured themselves up, saying how she couldn't understand how someone couldn't get 10,000 steps in. I was like wth. If one works all day, let's say a sedentary job, goes home, takes care of dinner, laundry dishes kids, house, bills, jeezom. I have a few daylight hours left and I can't do 10,000, probably not even 5,0001
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@tufntender Yep yep. Wake up, go to work, come home, make dinner, wash up, do a load of laundry or vacuum or whatever other house chore and BAM, time for bed. I wake up super early to walk before work now. It's the only way for me.0
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Hi. I'll put in my opinion based on what I could understand from your post.
You are currently on an 800 calorie diet. You've lost weight several times. I assume you also regained weight several times. I didn't catch your gender. So based on your daily lifestyle which revolves around so many activities and chores(definitely not a sedentary lifestyle) and twice a day exercise routine, I am not surprised you feel ravenously hungry.
I feel you should fuel your body with much lower margin of calorie deficit. Such that you feel satiety and are healthy. Lack of food will make you more cranky.
We all look to lose weight or achieve our goals quickly(me too so I can relate) but I've failed a lot. So now I look back and imagine what it would be like if I had actually followed a sustainable approach in the past 2 years. I'd have easily achieved my goals.
Since this is a forum, I am expressing my opinion. You will obviously make the final call. Eating so less is not doing good to your body. Eating well will give you better results on working out.
I am presently on a sustainable diet and feel very satisfied whether or not the scale shifts.
All the best with your goals.7 -
It's not you, that's the way your body is designed. Our bodies are built to survive, nothing else. When we are obese, our set point for weight that our body thinks we need for survival is much higher. When we lose weight our body is fighting to get back to that set point because it thinks we are in danger. Ghrelin levels increase in an effort to make you eat. Not fair, but it's just your body's survival mechanism that has gone a bit haywire. Set a sustainable deficit, and if every now and then you eat more than that, dust yourself off and get right back on it. Sustainability and persistence persevere in the end.2
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People in here doling out disagree reactions like it's a battle arena. Apparently this topic is sensitive for a lot of people.
I think there's just a lot of people out there that want to be like, "Not me, I'm NEVER hungry ever! Because everything I do is perfect!" despite all science saying they are wrong.
If you're never hungry: 1, you'd never be trying to lose weight, b/c you'd already be the "perfect" weight (you know, since you're never hungry), and 2. You need to write a book and make millions of dollars. There is a multi billion dollar fitness industry that caters specifically to people who are hungry and end up overweight.2 -
dontlikepeople wrote: »People in here doling out disagree reactions like it's a battle arena. Apparently this topic is sensitive for a lot of people.
I think there's just a lot of people out there that want to be like, "Not me, I'm NEVER hungry ever! Because everything I do is perfect!" despite all science saying they are wrong.
If you're never hungry: 1, you'd never be trying to lose weight, b/c you'd already be the "perfect" weight (you know, since you're never hungry), and 2. You need to write a book and make millions of dollars. There is a multi billion dollar fitness industry that caters specifically to people who are hungry and end up overweight.
I think you're taking stuff way to personally here man. I don't think anyone said they were never hungry. I'm always hungry around my normal meal times. Also, people gain weight for a myriad of reasons. I didn't put on weight because I was vastly overeating. I was lean my entire life until I hit 30 and graduated university and started sitting at a desk all day vs being a very active person up until that point. It took me 8 years to put on about 40 Lbs...so about 5 Lbs per year. Had I remained even somewhat active during that time, my guess is that I would have been just fine.
I have experienced practically constant hunger before, but only when I've tried dipping below 12% BF...at 10% I want to gnaw my arm off. At a normal weight and BF% I am hungry at meal times and a bit peckish in the late afternoon for a snack. As I mentioned before, I think a lot of this has to do with losing a large chunk of weight (I never had to do that). Also, people are just different and wired different. I know quite a few people in my circle of friends who've never needed to lose weight and have never been overeaters.13 -
> I think you're taking stuff way to personally here man.
Look at OTHER people's disagree reactions, not just me, my man. People are triggered.0 -
dontlikepeople wrote: »People in here doling out disagree reactions like it's a battle arena. Apparently this topic is sensitive for a lot of people.
I think there's just a lot of people out there that want to be like, "Not me, I'm NEVER hungry ever! Because everything I do is perfect!" despite all science saying they are wrong.
If you're never hungry: 1, you'd never be trying to lose weight, b/c you'd already be the "perfect" weight (you know, since you're never hungry), and 2. You need to write a book and make millions of dollars. There is a multi billion dollar fitness industry that caters specifically to people who are hungry and end up overweight.
No - people are using the disagree button as it was intended - to say they disagree with something.
Not sure where you are getting this battle arena out of that or that it is a sensitive topic.
Nor have I seen anyone say they are never hungry of they are perfect - you are reading conclusions into the disagree button that are just not there.
although actually I wasnt particularly hungry when losing weight - I set my pace at 1/2 lb per week, changed some things (like cut out sugary drinks) and some mindless snacking and increased my activity level.
I didnt very that much change the volume of food I ate.
Of course that is just my individual story - may not be yours just as yours may not be mine. - but we were both trying to lose weight.
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dontlikepeople wrote: »> I think you're taking stuff way to personally here man.
Look at OTHER people's disagree reactions, not just me, my man. People are triggered.
I also think you're reading too much into the "disagrees". Each click means someone disagrees with something about the post, and - unless they comment - we don't know what. (Exceptions: Sometimes a single disagree happens when someone's scrolling on a phone, accidentally clicks "disagree". I've done that, saw it, fixed it; I've probably done it without seeing it, too. It's the only logical explanation of some disagrees. Besides that, some people - trying to be puckish, I guess - will click "disagree" on purpose on most any post that they see that mentions disagree clicks.)
IMO, this isn't a "battle arena", and a disagree click isn't some kind of mortal wound. I've been here for going on 7 years, post often. I have over 1100 disagrees. If I thought those were mortal wounds, I'd be dead by now, or at least psychologically broken.
That's not it: It's that in an admittedly ridiculous huge posting history, someone (in a site with many thousands of users) has disagreed with me 1100+ times. I can live with that, very comfortably.
If I get multiple disagrees on a single post, especially if the same post has fewer positive reactions, I use it as a prompt to consider whether I've been unclear, or unkind, or something like that. If I think I have, I'll try to clarify, or sometimes have apologized. Otherwise, I just go on with life.
I'd encourage you not to interpret disagrees so dramatically. 🤷♀️14
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