omg I'm hungry!!!!!!

Eat protein with your carbs. Like pasta with a piece of grilled or baked chicken, toast and an egg - you get the idea. Carbs immediately make you feel satisfied, but the protein stays longer. You won't always feel this hungry. Your body will get used to needing less food to function.

Remember to exercise and you'll get more calories for the day as well.

If you can get through the first week, your body will get used to the lack of "over indulgence". The more junk you put in, the more it craves.

Let your body get used to eating healthy and the cravings will stop.

water water water!!!

I agree! And green tea is good too.

"Low to no calorie" foods sure as hell isn't the answer. Nutritional, protein dense food is. Also, I sincerely doubt 1,400 calories is a realistic and sustainable goal.

Try a few different online BMR and TDEE calculators to get a better idea what you should be consuming, then consider re-setting your goals. Good luck.

I know how you feel!!! I am in the same boat! BUT i cook so here it comes. I make :
Hummus - take a can of chick peas, one tbl spoon of tahini sause, 2 cloves or garlic, a whole lemon and if you like (parsley finely chopped) , and a quater cup of juice from the chick peas can - NO OIL its still really good. then mush it all together spread on pocket pita (whole grain small) with a half of chicken breast (grilled or I boil mine ). Have a cup of tea with lemon no sugar or whatever tea you like!!!
Substitute milk for Almond Breeze drink (call it almond milk) for your cerial or coffee. Dont buy they one with 40 call, buy the one with 60 cal. I like that one better. Protein shakes always good with almond milk its half the cal and fat then milk!!!
if you work at the desk and always want to munch on stuff (seeds are great pumpkin or sun flower) put them in your salad.
Make vegie soup. just chop into big pieces carrots, bell pepper, some potatoe, salary, one onion, butter nut squash and bunch of parsle, put it into a pot and put some low sodium chicken broth (almost covering the vegies) simmer untill cooked then pure all together and you have really good vegi soup. i boil like 6 chicken breasts then add them to my salads, pitas, dice them into soups

When you feel like you HAVE to have something salty or sugary, try to choose the best thing possible. Popcorn (especially air popped) is GREAT. Drinking tea with a spoonful of sugar in it is calming, relaxing, and tastes sugary. PLUS, it helps make you feel fuller. Try getting some interesting flavors of tea. I just had Zesty Orange and Spice tea with a very small amount of sugar. Tastes great, curbs appetite, and it's awesome on a cold day like today.

I know it seems like starvation at first, but try to eat healthy things that are low in calories, it will seem like you are eating or grazing all day long. You should not feel hungry when you change your lifestyle. I put in a "friend" request so you can look at my diary and lifestyle. Search everyone's and get ideas of what to eat and what not to eat. Just be cautious, there are many that eat up their calories quickly and they are using mainly empty calories. The goal is to eat all day long, but eat healthy and most of time the healthier eating will be less calories than the alternative.

If it were easy, everyone right now would be doing it. It is walks and talks (to others of like mind and to yourself for encouragement). You are so in the right place and that is a good place to start. This website has so many tools it's unreal! You can do this.

Ease into this, take it slow and easy because if you try to change everything in one day, you will get completely overwhelmed.

That being said, it's like I told my husband yesterday, If you are used to eating lots of high sugar, high calorie and high fat foods, I don't care what you do.....till you go through that "detox", if you will, your gonna be hungry. Your body is craving the sugars and fats and until it has been weaned off of them, the hunger will be there.

You have to think of snacks that will satisfy YOU. I can't eat a bag of cold carrots and be happy, but I do like a bananna and 10 pistachios for one snack, or BabyBell cheese with Wasa Bread. An apple with a tablespoon of peanutbutter. Balance your carbs and proteins and that will help satisfy you as well.

I find that If I eat every 2-3 hrs, I never get hungry. And if I'm not hungry, then I never feel the need to binge. I eat my breakfast around 7, then a snack around 9:30. I have lunch at 12:30, then a snack at 3:00. I have dinner somewhere between 6:30 and 7:00.

And I've seen it posted here already, water, water and more water. It will help in so many ways. Flushes your system out, keeps fatigue at bay, keeps hunger at bay.

All my best to you, you can do this....one day at a time!!

Ease into this, take it slow and easy because if you try to change everything in one day, you will get completely overwhelmed.

That being said, it's like I told my husband yesterday, If you are used to eating lots of high sugar, high calorie and high fat foods, I don't care what you do.....till you go through that "detox", if you will, your gonna be hungry. Your body is craving the sugars and fats and until it has been weaned off of them, the hunger will be there.

You have to think of snacks that will satisfy YOU. I can't eat a bag of cold carrots and be happy, but I do like a bananna and 10 pistachios for one snack, or BabyBell cheese with Wasa Bread. An apple with a tablespoon of peanutbutter. Balance your carbs and proteins and that will help satisfy you as well.

I find that If I eat every 2-3 hrs, I never get hungry. And if I'm not hungry, then I never feel the need to binge. I eat my breakfast around 7, then a snack around 9:30. I have lunch at 12:30, then a snack at 3:00. I have dinner somewhere between 6:30 and 7:00.

And I've seen it posted here already, water, water and more water. It will help in so many ways. Flushes your system out, keeps fatigue at bay, keeps hunger at bay.

All my best to you, you can do this....one day at a time!!

Lol! I think eating a bag of carrots would be more like punishment.

Soup is very filling and low-calorie!

Take a look at my food diary for other ideas-- I'm usually around 1200 calories a day but I'm constnatly eating and never feel hungry (just don't look at last two weeks because it was the holidays and I was eating abnormally).

Protein-rich foods, oats, vegetables, and tons of water!

The snack recommendations are great and certainly drinking a ton of water and eating lots of fiber helps tremendously.

That being said, the first few days of changing your lifestyle just plain suck! It doesn't matter what you're giving up - junk food, sleeping in, cigarettes, a jerky boyfriend or girlfriend... It's always really tough the first few days, even though you know you're better off without it in your life.

I promise you that you will feel less hungry in a few days.

Best of luck! Hang in there!

THANK YOU for your post! I am also on day 1 and I'm worried about what to do when the hunger strikes! Your post has generated a lot of helpful responses. Good luck!!

bananas are 100 calories, but they really help. Pickle halves (the big kosher ones) help too, and they are only 10. Really though the water helps. If you are not drinking enough you will know it, because you will be hungry, lol...