I'm Hungry...

[PRmamiDEdos]

I've been on a juice fast for 38 days. You don't know hungry. I passed hungry a month ago.

What happens when you start introducing solid food to your system?

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[sasywtch]

I'm a firm believer in not depriving and moderation is the key is with a little more exercise than I would normally do.

I would probably add some vegetables with your dinner with your chili and the salad you are having or some fruit.

I am one of those, if you tell me no more chocolate---within a few days, I'm eating an entire cake. My solution came from someone at the gym. They made chocoate pudding with skim milk and put it in 1/2 cup servings and non fat or fat free (can't remember now) cool whip with sliced strawberries. It came to 90 calories and fixed my cravings and made me feel like I wasn't dieting. Also started putting more veggies and salad on the plate and less meat/casserole. Another requirement for me was walking 30 minutes after dinner with the family.

Since I have hypoclycemia, I have to eat smaller and more time during the day. 1/2 apple with a tsp peanut butter or slices of mozerella cheese, pretzels. I do like the airpop but my air poppers keep burning out

Good luck, I am getting ready to join in but in all honesty, waiting until Sept 1. I've always been ok and gained 5 lbs here and there but, I'm 55, that time and the rumors are true. The weight goes up and up and my metabolism seems to go down, down, down.

 

[scrappinDW]

Try some sugar free Jello, you can even add a little bit of Cool Whip. I find that it is very filling.
I am doing Jenny Craig and it is 'allowed'.

 

[FayeW]

I'm a firm believer in not depriving and moderation is the key is with a little more exercise than I would normally do.

I would probably add some vegetables with your dinner with your chili and the salad you are having or some fruit.

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More vegetables??? I am already eating practically nothing but vegetables for that meal. It's got about 3 oz of meat in it and the rest IS vegetables!

I usually eat an apple during the day. At the moment I have one Isagenix shake for a late breakfast/lunch. I mix half a banana and some fresh strawberries in that. I am probably consuming about 800 - 900 calories per day.

 

[kwelch10377]

More vegetables??? I am already eating practically nothing but vegetables for that meal. It's got about 3 oz of meat in it and the rest IS vegetables!

I usually eat an apple during the day. At the moment I have one Isagenix shake for a late breakfast/lunch. I mix half a banana and some fresh strawberries in that. I am probably consuming about 800 - 900 calories per day.

It sounds like you aren't consuming enough calories and you do need to add a little bit of carbs/grains into your meals. Generally you shouldn't be consuming less than 1200 calories per day.

 

[Nayan]

Diets do not work. Deprivation does not work.

And I HATE the saying about "Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels"! This is a lifestyle, NOT a diet! I still have pizza, burgers, fries, and cupcakes in moderation and in correct portions and I still lose plenty of weight and inches. I am not going to live the rest of my life without those foods, so why should I do it while I lose weight?

This bears repeating many times over! I don't 'diet' and I hate that word. I changed my eating habits from absolute junk to healthy and I exercise. I too still have ice cream, pizza, burgers, etc. but like you said, in moderation. I am just about at my goal weight and I consume about 1200 to 1300 calories a day.

 

[mombrontrent]

More vegetables??? I am already eating practically nothing but vegetables for that meal. It's got about 3 oz of meat in it and the rest IS vegetables!

I usually eat an apple during the day. At the moment I have one Isagenix shake for a late breakfast/lunch. I mix half a banana and some fresh strawberries in that. I am probably consuming about 800 - 900 calories per day.

Not enough, period. You are noy eating enough, your body will go into starvation mode. You are feeling hungry because you are depriving your body. I am not on a diet but I still LOVE veggie soup and it's great for dieters. I often make a huge pot of veggie soup and eat it for several days, even my DH will eat a couple bowls. It really tastes great and fills you up because of all the liquid.

You can use any veggies you have on hand. The one I made this weekend was the following: I sautee some onion, garlic, celery, carrot, leeks, spinach/swiss chard, grated zucchini. I added 10 cups water, 3 veg. boullion cubes, black pepper and quite a few good shakes of a salt free organic seasoning. Brought it to a boil and threw in a couple handfuls frozen peas and corn, a couple diced potatos and 4 diced garden fresh tomatos. Let it simmer for about 20 min and it tasted amazing. I will often throw in a couple handfuls of grain (quinoa, barley, rice, bulgar ect.). Just allow for longer simmer time to cook the grain, barley will take close to an hour. I make all kinds of soup, more in the winter but also the summer. In the winter I will make it 2-3 times a week. A favourite around here in the fall is sweet potato and squash.

Wishing you the best

 

[shortbun]

Just my opinion but saltines and melba toast would make me FEEL deprived which is a ticket to failure for me. I usually buy some really tasty, grainy bread for my carbs OR add beans with fibre and also protein. Protein consumption seems to be a key to feeling full. Some people eat too little. Beans are a great combo food. I get a can of red beans, cook them with some onion and garlic, smash them and add some salsa and cheese for a really tasty and full of fiber/protein meal. If you use low fat(not no fat) cheese, it's very low fat as well. No fat cheese has a rubber/plastic texture so I just can not eat it. I also extend my salad dressing by measuring a serving-2T usually-and mixing it with equal amt of non fat plain yoghurt. Gets in some calcium and gives you a decent amt of dressing. One more thing. Add flavor with things like cinnamon, lemon juice, cumin, basil-thyme-rosemary-oregano-parsley. The flavor of a fresh herb or spice really lifts your spirits and adds nothing to your calorie count. I grow a container garden and bring them in when it gets cold so I have fresh herbs year round.

Why are you limiting your calorie intake to 800-900? 1200 is a healthy count and with a little exersize you will still lose weight. Add 300 calories a day and take a 20 minute walk or do some stretching. Your body will shut down because it thinks you're fasting and it wants to hold fat. I can lose weight on 1500-1800 if I step up my exersize to 4 instead of 3X a week AND the calories are healthy foods, not junk.

 

[FayeW]

Just my opinion but saltines and melba toast would make me FEEL deprived which is a ticket to failure for me. I usually buy some really tasty, grainy bread for my carbs OR add beans with fibre and also protein. Protein consumption seems to be a key to feeling full. Some people eat too little. Beans are a great combo food. I get a can of red beans, cook them with some onion and garlic, smash them and add some salsa and cheese for a really tasty and full of fiber/protein meal. If you use low fat(not no fat) cheese, it's very low fat as well. No fat cheese has a rubber/plastic texture so I just can not eat it. I also extend my salad dressing by measuring a serving-2T usually-and mixing it with equal amt of non fat plain yoghurt. Gets in some calcium and gives you a decent amt of dressing. One more thing. Add flavor with things like cinnamon, lemon juice, cumin, basil-thyme-rosemary-oregano-parsley. The flavor of a fresh herb or spice really lifts your spirits and adds nothing to your calorie count. I grow a container garden and bring them in when it gets cold so I have fresh herbs year round.

Why are you limiting your calorie intake to 800-900? 1200 is a healthy count and with a little exersize you will still lose weight. Add 300 calories a day and take a 20 minute walk or do some stretching. Your body will shut down because it thinks you're fasting and it wants to hold fat. I can lose weight on 1500-1800 if I step up my exersize to 4 instead of 3X a week AND the calories are healthy foods, not junk.

That calorie range seems to work for me. I don't eat much during the day, as a matter of fact for most of the first 6 months I ate nothing during the day except two apples, and a mid-day snack of melba toast with a little peanut butter. Then I had my supper of mainly protein and vegetables. I also took 3 PGX tablets before every meal for extra fiber.

After we came back from Cuba I was pretty much in maintenance mode; I had lost about 36 lbs at that point and I was delighted to be able to have more "normal" meals and still maintain my weight loss. Some ladies at work are using Isagenix with good results, so about a month ago I decided to do the 30 day program. I am not seeing the same type of results as they are, but then again I had already lost a substantial amount of weight so it is coming off more slowly. During the last couple of weeks I have modified the Isagenix program to fit me better, dropping down to just one shake mid morning and an apple in the afternoon. I have tremendous will power when I know that I can have my one real meal of the day at dinner time. I've lost another 8 lbs in the last month with this program.

As for cheese, well, my motto is "Life is too short to eat low fat cheese". I would rather have a sprinkle of the real stuff than an ounce of bland cheese.

 

[kwelch10377]

That calorie range seems to work for me. I don't eat much during the day, as a matter of fact for most of the first 6 months I ate nothing during the day except two apples, and a mid-day snack of melba toast with a little peanut butter. Then I had my supper of mainly protein and vegetables. I also took 3 PGX tablets before every meal for extra fiber.

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If you are still hungry after you eat then the calorie range is not working.

 

[FayeW]

If you are still hungry after you eat then the calorie range is not working.

I was hungry because I really wanted pizza all weekend and stuck to my program. I had enough food, it just wasn't what I wanted. If a pizza had materialized in front of me I certainly could have found room for it, even though my body didn't need any more food. My mind was hungry for the food I denied myself.

 

[kwelch10377]

I was hungry because I really wanted pizza all weekend and stuck to my program. I had enough food, it just wasn't what I wanted. If a pizza had materialized in front of me I certainly could have found room for it, even though my body didn't need any more food. My mind was hungry for the food I denied myself.

That would be called a craving then, not being hungry.

Regardless, 800-900 calories is not a healthy calorie in-take and could have long term effects when it comes to vitamin deficiency and fat storage. Any respectable doctor will tell you that.