When hunger strikes

samydebeche
samydebeche Posts: 2 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hi Everyone
What's your tips when you feel hungry and have maxed calories ?
Thx

Answers

  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 1,952 Member
    Depends on the circumstances. If I've already had breakfast, lunch and dinner I suck it up and don't eat more. If I was careless and maxed out calories between breakfast and lunch, I eat a smaller dinner and plan better the next day. It can help to preplan your meals and how many calories you get at each one. That way you can more easily see how to adjust the next day if you got too hungry.
  • amfmmama
    amfmmama Posts: 1,456 Member
    Drink water !
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,432 Member
    First of all I ask myself: is my calorie deficit too steep? If it is then chose a slower weightloss rate and eat more. Weightloss should be as sustainable and easy as possible. Secondly I look into my diary. Is there anything unusual, like did I have a pack of crisps which has a lot of calories but provides very little satiety? Lean from it and do this less often. Is it just an outlier or I'm getting sick? Eat more. The body might need it for healing or because sometimes one just needs a bit more food.
  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,794 Member
    I tend to work on a weekly basis rather than a day basis, as some days I am just hungrier. So as long as I hit my weekly goals I don’t worry about it. I also know there are different types of hunger and recognising my “bored” vs “genuinely really hungry” helps me to pick suitable foods.
  • totameafox
    totameafox Posts: 1,276 Member
    Look to change your calorie composition. I find that the more protein and fiber I eat, the less likely I am to feel the need to eat. I tend to eat more because I am bored than hungry. But if I am really bothered I will slice up half a cucumber or zucchini.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,121 Member
    It depends.

    Like others, I'm more attentive to average calories than daily calories, and during my first stages of calorie counting I was more focused on finding what mix of foods kept me full and energetic at goal calories or close.

    If I was really hungry, I'd think about why, as yirara suggested, and tweak my plan going forward to be better. If I was hungry and under my personal nutrition goals, I'd eat more of the things I felt I was short on, choosing calorie-efficient foods for that as much as possible.

    I'd also do what claireychn074 suggested, and think about whether it was actual hunger or nutritional needs, vs. habit, boredom, lack of good sleep that day, over-exercise, emotions, stress or something else. If the underlying trigger isn't fuel or nutrition, the best solution isn't likely to be food.

    During loss, the focus was on finding a sustainable, calorie appropriate routine, not necessarily being perfect every single second on calories. In maintenance, it hasn't changed that much, but after a long while (since I'm in year 9 of maintaining), I'm more flexible, and will eat a little extra sometimes to hit nutritional goals, or occasionally for some special event/meal, recognizing that I'll have to balance things out longer term, i.e., extra calories some days, fewer calories or more activity to compensate, in the long run.

    Best wishes!



  • samydebeche
    samydebeche Posts: 2 Member
    Thank you all for taking the time. Plenty of good tips to help me :)

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