Zuriien's Journal, 22 June 2015

I fully agree with the water recommendation... try drinking more water and that should help fill you up. Keep positive!! 

I drink water with a squeeze of lemon sometimes if I'm feeling hungry. It works for me 

I highly recommend keeping track of how much fiber you intake. No matter what diet you are following, fiber keeps us feeling full and therefore eating less and binge eating less. The recommended daily dosage is 25grams ( for an average adult) but the average person barely gets that. If you reach 30gr daily that keeps you full with very small portion. Research in weight loss suggests 30 gr daily to stay full and binge less. Have in mind that fiber is in most vegetables so by default by trying to get enough fiber you end of up eating more veggies and less highly processed foods. Try raw veggies in salads such as carrots, tomatoes, ...chia seeds added to yogurt are great source of fiber as well. I've tried a lot of diets in the past, low carb and yoyoing my results over the years due to stress and binge eating. I started by calculating what my RDI is based on my current weight and started trying to limit myself to 80% of RDI by increasing fiber and minimizing processed foods and high glycemic foods, then over the course of couple of weeks I started eating less than 1200 calories not by forcing it but by simply not being hungry because i've been eating plenty of fiber( aka veggies, soy beans, lentils, beans, etc, sprouted 7 grain bread, chia seeds, etc). I have always had issues sticking to a diet because of a constant hunger feeling...but moderately decreasing the food intake while increasing fiber as part of my diet I am now on my 3 week of eating less than 1200 and feel no hunger in between my small size portions. 

Maybe aim to eat smaller meals every 3.5 hrs and make sure these are meals full of protein to keep you fuller for longer and carbs such as butternut squash/ quinoa etc. Having something like a protein pancake for a snack is really filling and only ~350 cals. Also what everyone else is saying- water water water! 

same boat as u!  

Wow. Ton of bad info in the comments. To answer your question, it takes about 10 days to get your hunger to subside. Hunger is different from cravings. Hunger just speaks to the volume of food that you are no longer consuming. (which is a good thing). Like Yolanda said, It'll take a couple weeks for you stomach to shrink back down. Good luck with your calorie counting. Remember every 3500 calories cut, is 1 pound lost. The rest is just simple math. 

Water. Drink water when you wake up, before and during every snack, before and during every meal. Ask yourself, Am I craving or am I really hungry? If your craving, drink a glass of water and consider if you really want that thing you think you're hungry for. My other advice is casein protein before you go to bed. It is filling, It tastes great, and it slowly processes to keep those hunger cravings and pains away. 

I'm still hungry most of the time BUT not starving and thats the thing, when I think about eating I could eat..but do I really need to? not really. I find having low calorie snacks around can help too. So if I just must eat at least I can, right now I'm snacking on some strawberries...mmmmm ... and water (less yummy lol) 

I was never hungry on Atkins. 

More protein and healthy fats. You can also take chromium picolinate and that will help.  

You can delete duplicate entries by going into the journal entry (link on left). I recently had a similar issue. 

Correction, link on right. lol  

I've been adjusting down for the past 6 weeks or so, the first week was the hardest, after about the third, I felt like what I was eating was normal now. But I still have days where I am constantly hungry. Its probably one of those things that is different for everyone, and it may depend on how drastically you cut your calories. Too much too fast and you can crash pretty quickly and get major hungry. That happened to me when I first tried dieting about 8 months ago. I tried doing 1000 or less calories per day, didn't work and I ended up giving up and eating more. You will adjust in your own time, so don't worry too much about it, it does take time though, it will not happen instantly. :)