Helloooooo
I've been on my new "lifestyle" journey for just over a month - about 5 weeks to be exact. Things are going well as I've lost 6 lbs and 4 1/2 inches. I work out 4-5 days a week, 3 days weight training and 4-5 days cardio. On average I burn about 400-450 calories from working out.
I'm calorie counting. I track all my food at spark people (I've found it to contain more brand name foods than fitday). Generally I eat about 1400 calories a day. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but on average about 1400.
My problem is that I feel like I'm starving ALL the time. I don't know if my breakfasts and lunches aren't substantial or what. But by the time I get home from work, I find myself snacking until dinner time because I'm really just plain hungry. I've tried distracting myself, drinking water, etc.
My typical meals look something like this:
B: fruit (usually an apple or 1c of grapes) & a V8 OR Heart Smart healthy start cereal bar
S: usually carrots or a 100-calorie bag of popcorn
L: LC meal or leftovers from the night before. Lunch averages around 350 calories.
D: chicken breast, veggies, rice and salad.
I think my problem may be that I tend to eat the bulk of my calories at dinnertime. Should I be spreading out my calories? Should I eat more for breakfast and lunch?
My problem, like I mentioned, lies in between getting home time from work (about 3:30) and dinner time (about 5:30 or 7:00, depending on the days that DH has class until 7 p.m.). Yesterday I kept thinking, if I'm hungry, shouldn't I eat? But then I just eat until the full feeling goes away.
Does anyone else have this problem? I don't want to starve myself but I don't want to over eat, either. Right now my plan allows for 100-200 calories in snacking but I never seem to want to stop at that!