Zuriien's Journal, 22 June 2015

It's more important to concentrate on stopping smoking than your cravings right now. While you're trying to do this do some research on anything health related or losing weight to keep you motivated. There are some great hypnosis YouTube videos, try listening to 1-2 at night on smoking & hunger. You can do this, I believe in you. 

Do you like Tea? that or water may help to keep you from munching. Sometimes when you quit smoking you are hungry from not having something to do with your hands  

I don't understand why people feel that eating less is the way to lose weight. You should be eating until your satisfied no matter what plan you are following .. Plain and simple !  

First, it depends on how much you're cutting your calories by. You definitely don't want to crash diet. Your body won't be able to handle that. Sustainable changes are the way to go. I'd say figure out what your body requires to function and consume 500 calories less than that. What you eat also plays a huge role in that. If you eat a lot of protein and (healthy) fats, it will help with that quite a bit. Eating whole foods will make you feel full for longer. Eating processed crap all the time ("light" foods, lean cuisines, "fat free", "low calorie", etc) will not fill you up and will cause you to eat more of it. 

Sugar free gelatin (aka jello) has been working for me to suppress appetite ..  

I tried to see what your eating program is.. is it Atkins or Low carb like? I know for me.. if you are hungry.. EAT! They encourage that. and it is SUPER important to drink water. Every time I want to eat.. I try to remember to grab my water and gulp. The first week is hard.. the rest of the time is just trying to smash old habits. I know for me.. I have to go cold turkey no sugar...because if I let a little in... I want it all...and an Want it now!! http://cdn4.teen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/only-child-problems-sharing-main.jpg  

Much thanks to you all. I'm not nececarrily following any kind of diet per say, just trying to cut down in general. Some calorie counter said I should have an intake of 2800 so I stuck 2100 into the counter to basically give me some wiggle room if I just tipped a little over 2100. Thanks for the comments.I keep forgetting the water.  

Water is super important. There are most likely times you are thirsty and mistake it for hunger. It happens to most of us. 

Ive lost 40 pounds since February by creating a caloric defecit. 2800 is your 'maintenance' intake which means you will stay where you are. I set my deficit goal at 1600. 5 or 6 days of the week within the last four months, I have maintained that. When I do go over, I make sure not to exceed my maintenence amount (2800). I run 3 miles a day and since I am nearly fat free I have started a workout routine to burn the remaining. Soon I will need to increase my caloric intake as my muscle mass increases. If you eat protien rich foods you will feal full longer and protien burns more calories in the digestion process. Hope this helps.  

I found that cucumber with peel helps a lot. It is mostly water and very low in carb. I eat one small Persian cucumber (1/2 cup) when I feel hungry followed with a glass of water with juice of 1/2 fresh lime or lemon.  

Spend up to 6 weeks becoming an expert logging your food and moving toward your RDI. Weight and measure all your food. Don't starve your self. Slowly train yourself to become comfortable with proper portion sizes and calories you should consume. Then a survivable amount of calories from your diet or... or add exercise or change from counting calories to some other diet but still stay around your RDI. Small changes are sustainable, liveable and survivable. 

I understand what you're saying about the hunger. I was hungry 24/7 until I cut all processed sugar and eliminated white flour, pasta, and rice. It took about a week for the cravings to subside, but now I often fall below my chosen calorie limit for the day. I've shed 30 pounds over a three month period, and I feel pretty good. I do notice the cravings start to return if I eat things I have no business eating, LOL. I have days when it's really hard, but I look at my progress and weigh that against how bad I want the food. So far, I've been choosing well. People here at Fat Secret are awesome. This is a fantastic place to lost weight, so much encouragement. Be sure to log everything that goes into your mouth--it can be eye opening and help keep you in check. Best of luck! 

I agree with Dreamingangel about the "whites". Our body digests them too fast and causes insulin to spike and drop too rapidly. Also eating small meals every 3 hours can stop that spiking and balanced for weight loss. Don't under eat. Take in water.  

From personal experience and supported in various diet studies indicate people have less food cravings and appetite when on low carbohydrate diets. Dial back your grams of carbs to 20% (low-carb) of your weight to see if that makes a difference. It won't happen over night. Your weight gain didn't happen over night, the changes and the results from those changes won't either. Log your food and give it a few weeks. 

The only reason low-carb diets work is because they are inadvertently causing you to eat less calorie dense foods. If you want to lose weight, focus on calories not carbs. "But Then How Do Other Fat Loss Diets Work? This is the point when various stubborn, misinformed or just annoyingly stupid people like to mention that other diets cause people to lose fat all the time, and those diets have nothing to do with creating a caloric deficit. I mean, people lose fat on low carb diets, low fat diets, paleo diets, vegan diets, raw food diets, diets that involve eating “clean” instead of “dirty” or not eating after a certain time at night, and countless other types of diets that involve every gimmick, fad and method you can think of except the specific task of creating a caloric deficit. But yet, they have all caused people to successfully lose fat. What the hell? How can that be? If the only requirement for fat loss is a caloric deficit, and all of these diets have nothing to do with a caloric deficit, then how do they work? Obviously I must be wrong about all this calorie stuff, right? Wrong. You see, all of these diets and methods just indirectly cause you to create that caloric deficit." http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/how-to-lose-fat/ 

Takes a couple weeks. Make sure you're eating enough, if you absolutely feel like you're starving then have a snack. This has to be a sustainable change in order to last, but yeah in general give it a week or two and you'll be a lot more comfortable. A lot of the hunger pangs are psychological, it will subside. 

eat fat, nuts not crackers, lettuce and meat roll ups for lunch not subway, drink water not juice, get some creamed coconut and fruit balls good luck the hardest part is getting on the wagon xx  

Try using smaller plates. Perception has a lot to do with your mindset. Using large plates with lots of empty space you automatically start thinking you haven't eaten enough. Using the smaller salad plate allows you to fill it up and have a "full" plate of food. Also, drinking water helped me curb my appetite for wanting to snack all of the time. Lastly find the healthy foods you will eat that are filling and low carb. For me it was a mango salsa, sunflower seeds, bananas, roasted peppers, Lastly, big changes are a shock to the system, small changes are harder to stick to, find a medium, that place where you are just almost hungry but not quite. Mine was cutting down from almost 2700 cal a day, down to 2100 cal a day, and hopefully next week I can get down to the 1800 cal followed by the recommended 1650 cal per day. 

Any dietary change takes two weeks for my body to get with the program and start "listening" to me. I can always feel it when it starts to listen - and from there you're onto results :) 

And I can't emphasize water enough! Any day where I don't get enough water early enough in the day leads to a hungry day...