Always Hungry!!!

I noticed that you eat a lot of prepared foods (Jimmy Dean, Stouffer's,etc) these are usually higher in calories and sodium than foods that you might make yourself. And you eat a lot of cheese, I never find that filling and it's a lot of calories.

My suggestion is to cook more. Lean meats, chicken, fish, etc. and keep them simple. Add a whole grain pasta or rice or skip the starches once in a while and serve 2 or more vegetables with your meals. Stir-fried meat and veggies are super simple and quick and usually low in fat (depends on how you cook them). Plus, you can always cook enough to stretch into 2 meals so you only have to cook every other day, or take leftovers for lunch.

Also, it looks like you need to increase your fiber. Fiber really helps you stay fuller longer. I'd skip the cheese snack and have a bowl of cereal instead, more fiber, same calories.

You might want to make the changes a little at a time so it's not so overwhelming. Also, if you have a craving for something sweet or salty, it's ok to indulge once in a while, just keep it within the calories you alot yourself for snacks and you'll never feel deprived. Hopefully you wont feel hungry either.

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Eat To Live 6 week plan. It keeps me satiated all day long with no cravings! :-)
=> 453 grams raw non-starchy veggies (1 lb.)
=> 453 grams cooked non-starchy veggies (1 lb.)
=> 4 fruit
=> 1 cup beans
=< 1 cup starches
= 1 oz. nuts/seeds
= 1 T flaxseed

Hi Kirsty
Your article its basically the same as what I'm eating also.
I take bowel-biotic's to keeps everything moving thru and it also keeps me full and 2 captuals of spirulana every day. ;-)

You are not eating enough low-calorie fruits and vegetables and too many high-calorie, dense, processed foods, which fill up your calorie goals but not your stomach.

Add sodium and sugar to your tracked items: Calories, Carbs, Fat, Protein, Sodium & Sugar. Once you do that, I'm sure you will see that you are eating a LOT of sodium & sugar. Under goals, change your goals to custom, put in the number of calories you want to eat per day and then set your macronutrients to 40 (protein), 30 (fat) and 30 (carbs). Get rid of all of the prepackaged stuff & drink only water. If you want peanut butter, eat only natural pb with no sugar added. Bread- Ezekiel 4:9 bread. Eat real foods.

If you are going to eat pasta, try whole wheat pasta also add more veggie and fruit. To much processed food will leave you feeling hungry as most of it's nutritional value is lost, especially if you work out a lot. Try this experiment. Place a jimmy dean sandwich on a plate then on another plate place the equivalent (in calories) in veggies, fruit and a 4oz piece of lean protein and see which offers you more eats for the same amount of calories. I was shocked when I saw the amount of food when I tried this.

Dr. Joel Fuhrman does a good job of explaining toxic hunger vs true hunger in volume 1 of 'Eat for Health'. I have, like 15 different diet books in my personal library and have tried following them all, but it wasn't until I read his book that I learned how I could eliminate those 'hunger' feelings with a diet based on fruits, veggies, and whole foods. And, let me tell you, I used to eat 3,000 + calories a day and would still be hungry. But that's when I ate highly refined carbs, sugar/caffiene based beverages (colas), and processed foods. But I personally found that to eliminate those hunger feelings, I had to totally eliminate all soda & junk foods (even if they were within my calorie allotment for the day) and and get most of my carbs from fruits & starchy veggies.

I have to go with what just about everyone else has said here...

Eat whole foods, get rid of processed foods.

I like what someone else said... when you shop at the grocery store, you buy ingredients, not meals. I really think that if you focus on eating whole foods rather than processed foods, you will immediately notice a difference.