1570 calories and can't do it.

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Hi

Just looking at your diary for the past week, here are your highest calorie food choices . . .

Ice cream - 280 calories
Peach cobber - 606 calories
Ice cream - 240 calories
Peach cobbler - 303 calories
Chocolate chip cookies - 518 calories
Hamburger - 425 calories
Feta cheese - 396 calories
Rice Krispies - 299 calories
DiGiorno pizza - 1,750 calories (ouch)
Chocolate Brownie - 384 calories
Half and half - 944 calories (why?)
Tyson chicken nuggets - 675 calories

I didn't pull these out of your diary to sit here and criticize. I think it just helps people sometimes to see exactly what they are eating. ***Trust me -- I'm not judging -- I used to eat a pound of pasta in a sitting.***

You are not getting your calories from quality sources, and you are almost certainly deficient in quite a few nutrients. For this reason, your body is telling you to eat more and more, even when you overeat. It needs essential vitamins and minerals.

Here is how you can start. For just one meal a day, eat a salad. A nice, huge salad, with lots of veggies, some beans, some lean protein (grilled chicken, steamed shrimp). If you must do cheese, don't do much. Choose a healthy dressing. Extra virgin olive oil will be fine -- it's high calorie, so measure a tablespoon, but it's so good for you.

For your other meals, eat what you want (for now).

Instead of ice cream *and* cobbler for dessert, have a small cup of one and a piece or two of fresh fruit.

Invest in a food scale to measure your serving sizes, especially for desserts. I think some of your entries are guesses. A decent food scale will only cost you $20 or so at Target or on Amazon, and it makes all the difference in the world. And measure your servings for things like cheese and cereal. If you find yourself mindlessly eating cookies or chips or whatever, count out a serving (or two, if you must) and then put the rest away! Don't munch without thinking then try later to guesstimate how much you had. You could be severely under- or over-estimating.

Last thing -- if you are breastfeeding, log that every day.

LOTS OF WATER!!! Water will help. It will take a while before you see a difference.

I repeat on here a billion times how my dietician told me that hungry signs could be a simple sign of dehydration. I drink 10 glasses of water and 1 cup of coffee a day and still never feel hydrated enough and still pee yellow.

I didn't believe my dietician when he told me. I told him I was exercising more and he said it's because I'm dehydrated. I started drinking lots of water spread throughout the day and the hunger pains went away completely!

It is hard. Try to make small changes you can live with (happily) and it will come together in time. All the best to you!

Hey, get urself the "cook yourself thin" cookbook. The food is soooo good nd so tasty! Nd the calories are not crazy....

I am not encouraging anyone to just blindly eat less but believe me it takes some time before you are used to be "hungry".

Once you pass that point, eating less doesn't make you feel as hungry.

Are you sure you are counting the oatmeal right? It is 300 calories for a cup of dry oats - which will make a lot more prepared than one would think.

Instead of saying to yourself, "ugh this is hell measuring all this stuff," or "oh I just can't do it," focus on what you can do and try to make changes incrementally.

This is really good advice. I got frustrated with my weight loss and fell off the wagon. I stopped counting calories because I was just too frustrated with it. Instead, I focus on how full I am. If I am hungry, I eat until I'm satisfied, but stop eating before I'm full. If I'm not hungry, I don't eat, or I just eat a little bit (like at breakfast time).

Are you exercising? That really helps. Even if you can't do much, just focus on what you can do and keep doing it until you are able to do more.

I'm on the same amount of calories per day, and I initially found that if I spread out my breakfast, lunch, and snacks to 300 cals each, I was not hungry pretty much all day.
I think the major thing is identifying when you are actually hungry, or when it is just your body adjusting to not having as many calories to rely on.
Switching some foods help too.
every morning I have oats or a light cereal, and I make my oats with water, not milk. When they are cooked, I mix a small tub of light yoghurt through it. There is the sweetness that you need, instead of the empty calories of sugar.
Eat a protein bar every day or so. My fave is horleys carb less crunch bars, and they have between 160-180cals.
Instead of just eating toast, eat a variety of foods for lunch. Yesterday I had a bowl of thai soup, with a mandarin and an apple, and it filled me up fine.
I have lost about 8kgs, and now I get full faster than I used to.
And just remember, if you want to eat more calories, just go for an extra walk or something! If I want junk food for dinner, an hour bike ride or 30 minute run usually does it.
Keep going, don't give up, and if you do get hungry, go out and do something! Not only do you take your mind off your hunger, you get to earn some calories.