Weird hunger thing

[Carthonn]

I don't know what happened my only theory it's that I'm in a pretty much 5 day routine that doesn't change day to day, and it's my bodies reaction to it. The thing is I rarely feel hungry. But I know that I need to eat because if I don't I won't get enough calories. Like for today for example I had a V8, a handful of mixed nuts, Grilled Chicken Cesar salad and a small bowl of chex mix. I estimate that at about 700 - 800 calories. I only drink water other than the V8 for breakfast.

Now it's dinner time and I'm just not hungry. What I am tempted to do which may be a terrible idea but I may skip dinner. Now is this my body going into starvation mode or is it a reaction to my daily routine. I pretty much have the things listed every day but with a different dinner each night.

 

[xkaylanicolex]

If youre not getting hungry, its cause your body doesn't digest food as fast as some other people. If you're not hungry by dinnertime its fine, because your body is still digesting the food you ate earlier in the day. Just wait a couple hours and eat a snack like an apple or some celery. =)

 

[xkaylanicolex]

but, you said you're only getting 700 calories a day. You need at least 1000. So instead of a ceaser salad try a turkey sandwich. You want to get some calories in for energy to work out.

 

[allyphoe]

I had a V8, a handful of mixed nuts, Grilled Chicken Cesar salad and a small bowl of chex mix. I estimate that at about 700 - 800 calories.

You might want to measure a sample handful and bowl, and try logging your information in Fitday or something similar. Because I come up with 1,100-1,200 calories for those things, using what I'd consider a handful and a small bowl. The big unknown in there is the chicken caesar salad, which could have anywhere between 370 calories (Wendy's) and 920 (Macaroni Grill).

 

[Matt2]

Additionally, it may be that this is your body's way of combating starvation mode. I'm sure if your body kept sending hunger messages to your brain when it knows/feels there isn't enough food, it would have distracted you from concentrating on hunting for food in our former simple existence.

I'd try and get what you can in, making sure you eat enough fibre for your digestive system to function properly. I tried setting specific times for each meal, lunch at 12:00 and dinner within 7:00, and after that I'd only be hungry right before those times.

But, as mentioned above, you NEED more calories in your. Depending on your hight and weight, you could eat double what you're eating now, and still lose as much weight as you are now.

Be careful that you don't plateau from the lack of calories and nutrients too, I'd actually suggest not dieting- but just changing things gradually for life; and exercising a lot!