Help! Why am I hungry?
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Help! Why am I hungry?
| Tue, 04-19-2005 - 1:09pm |
I have been trying to eat more and different kinds of foods, but here it is at 1pm and I'm hungry again!
Here is what I have had today (no morning workout):
Breakfast: ww english muffin w/egg and ff cheese slice, coffee w/milk
Lunch: 1.5 cups homemade lentil soup (with spinach and celery), apple, three sf candies
Why I am hungry already?? This seems like a TON of food to me.


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Here's just my input... Cause of my experince
the starch of your WW english muffin and then the apple and 3 SF candies, is probably your hunger reason.
I believe SF candies have at least (the lowest calories 30g.) Not sure on taht so dont quote me.
To *me* it just doesn't seem like much food! I eat WAY more than that LOL! But everyone is different. I can eat a ww english muffin or cereal or oatmeal just fine in the morning and not feel hungry - so that could be it, or it might not be. Especially since you did eat a carb competitor.
Where is your morning snack? And 1.5 cups of soup doesn't sound like much of a lunch to me personally - I know it is a big portion of soup, but I personally would have had maybe 3/4 cup soup and a 1/2 sandwhich AND a salad!! In fact that is what I am having for lunch today.
For exapmle, today I have had:
breakfast: ww english muffin, yogurt w/peanut butter
snack: shake w/milk, ice, banana and a string cheese
lunch: leftover minestrone soup, half turkey sandwhich on ww bread, good sized salad
Then later I will have an apple w/peanut butter for a snack
and chicken with 2 more servings veggies for dinner...plus a sweet treat later, probably pudding to get in my third dairy serving too.
I know you work out a lot right? I've started working out more and more lately (now up to 6hr a week, which is a big change for me!) and I was feeling really hungry for awhile (and not losing) Once I UPPED what I was eating (espeically more grains and protein) I've started feeling less hungry and losing again (so far 3lbs in the last week since I started eating more!)
Granted I'm certainly not an expert - but I can say that *I* would be hungry if I had eaten what you had so far today!
MichaelAnn
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Hi V,
I think it's not quite
My day sounds like yours, too..I found that cutting back to 1/2 english muffin (instead of a whole) in the am with my egg and lf/ff cheese worked better, less cravings mid day. I also cannot eat any fruit till 2 or 3pm, because I end up hungry in about an hour after I eat an apple, even with PB.
Hope you get this figured out soon!
Jolene
Hey, a thought about that english muffin for breakfast.....
Whole wheat english muffins weigh 2 ounces, and therefore count as 2/3 of your starch servings for the day.
Ok, well I just bought the english muffins, so I'd rather not toss them immediately. I change my menu every week, but since I live alone I basically have the same food every day for a week and then mix it up the following week. I actually was not hungry after breakfast and fine until lunch. I was hungry but after eating lunch did not feel remotely full. I ran out of apples, so tomorrow I'll have carrots instead, maybe that will help some. I did add a few peanuts and ate a few more sf candies and I'm ok for now. Getting ready to have my broccoli/hummus snack.
As for the soup, I loaded it up with veggies, adding a huge bag of spinach and another bag of chopped celery. I know it wasn't tons of veggies, but it wasn't terrible either.
I just want to get past this . . . I feel like I think about food all the time because I am always hungry. At the same time I feel like I am always eating too much and could still stand to lose a few pounds.
"Ok, well I just bought the english muffins, so I'd rather not toss them immediately."
Today I had a glass of soy milk after my morning weights workout and that has helped immensely! I am much less hungry. Had the same ww english muffin w/egg and cheese breakfast but I'm feeling full! Thanks again for all the suggestions!!
I also have been working on the fact that my body seems to want to stay around 125 lbs. I think at 120 I look better, but my body doesn't like it so I need to accept this weight.
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