Dieting..but hungry all of the time.

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cpushm

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I have been trying my hardest to lose weight. I start school back up in April and I bought my scrubs a size too small for motivation. The problem? I FEEL like Im eating a decent amount, but yet Im hungry ALL of the time..so even though I am eating some good, healthy food. I feel like I eat too much of it for it to even make a difference.

Sometimes I will eat (for example) a turkey sandwich and half of a jumbo pickle, and literally feel full for only about ten minutes before my stomach starts growling again. Is this normal for people who are newly dieting or is there something wrong with me perhaps?
 
That's a difficult question to answer without more information like what you were eating, how much you are now eating, whether you exercise (and what type of exercise), how frequently you are eating now and how much weight you have to lose.


However:


- You might want to aim to eat more frequently so your body never gets a chance to be 'over hungry'. Eating every 2 - 3 hours can help manage hunger signals.


- You should do some exercise each day even if it is a brisk 30 minute walk where you work up a sweat.


- And, of course, adhere to healthy foods (fruit, vegetables, wholegrains, meat, fish, eggs, nuts, olive oil, skimmed milk, limited dairy and preferably no alcohol).


I'm not a big fan of counting calories and therefore 'dieting' but these types of lifestyle changes will result in anyone getting into a healthy weight range. If you don't count calories it may take longer but it is likely to be easier to sustain than a short term calorie reduced diet. And, once you get into a healthy weight range and still want to get leaner then you can always adjust the exercise programme while still eating well.
 
Hunger is good in my books, points to a metabolism that's still running hot.

Protein and healthy fat helps with hunger so maybe include a few nuts with your meal.

drinking water helps fill your stomach until the meal is processed enough to stop the hunger signals.


Tourny
 
Hello cpushm. I think it's just a situation in which your body needs time to adjust to the new way of eating / life.


Heck, my stomach was stretched beyond capacity for about 20 years ! After losing 80 lbs, I was hungry ALL the time too ! You said you were sometimes good for 10 minutes ? Lucky you ! I could eat a good sized meal, and not feel satiated at all !


So anyway, it took me close to two years after I started my journey, to actually feel comfortable / satiated much of the time. Maybe it took this long for my actual stomach to shrink back closer to normal size ?


I still get hungry.... heck, even ravaged sometimes, if I haven't eaten for 3 hours. But now, instead of thinking I'm going to starve to death, I usually think, "I'm hungry. That's good. My cut is working" :)


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Oh, but hey ! You said you were dieting ??? Geeez, I'm sorry to break the bad news, but diets just don't work. Diets are a temporary solution, to a temporary problem. If you want to make changes with your body / health, that will last the rest of your life, you have to make permanent, life long changes with the way you eat and exercise {or should I say, the way that you live}.


Fish
 
Vegetables.


IMHE, you can eat tons of vegetables and still lose weight. I try to always have some peeled baby carrots handy for snacks. For a true veggie-fest (skinny) pig-out, you can make a "marinara primavera" sauce with nothing but veggies and serve over spaghetti squash (just watch that if you say, sautee the mushrooms before adding them to the sauce, you don't use too much fat).


The other thing I've found is that I have to make sure I'm getting ENOUGH fat. More than five teaspoons of cooking oil (or the equivalent) per day and I don't tend to lose weight, but less than three teaspoon-oil-equivalents and I am voraciously hungry and its almost impossible to stop myself from eating everything in sight. The body needs some fat to run on - not too much, but not too little, either.


(ETA: I hope I don't sound too much like a know-it-all or anything. My online suggestions are worth what you paid for them
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, and to be taken or ignored as works for you.)
 
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