I eat breakfast at 8:30 and lunch at 12. I've tried a morning snack in there but then it feels like I am eating all morning ;)

I am stopping eating when I am full these days. I think I might switch back to 1700 every day for a couple weeks and then calorie cycle the other two but not QUITE so extreme. I do get pretty hungry on my 1400 days so I think I'll take some of the 2000 and add it to there.

It's weird to think that I used to eat 5-6000 calories regularly and not even twig... you know?

Fascinating thread because I'm finding the same problems. I try to keep to the top end of my 1550 sparkpeople budget and to just throw in a couple of lower ones ready for Sunday lunch. Come Sunday, 2 weeks now I've struggled to get to 1200! Of course I could boost it instantly with a bar of chocolate but I don't want to get into the habit of doing that regularly; and I don't eat store bought bread or anything processed or cheese. (I loved all these things in the past and I bet I could love them again very easily!!)

I like the cans of beans idea though.

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I eat breakfast at 8:30 and lunch at 12. I've tried a morning snack in there but then it feels like I am eating all morning ;)

I am stopping eating when I am full these days. I think I might switch back to 1700 every day for a couple weeks and then calorie cycle the other two but not QUITE so extreme. I do get pretty hungry on my 1400 days so I think I'll take some of the 2000 and add it to there.

It's weird to think that I used to eat 5-6000 calories regularly and not even twig... you know?

Sounds like a great idea. No reason for you to feel hungry on those 1400 days if you've got the room. You'll see how it goes and can always re-evaluate.

I know, it boggles my mind beyond belief at just how many calories LESS I'm eating then prior and how I am more then full and satisfied and well-nourished. Boggles the mind. And of course, how I never get it a second thought. All those years........ Grrrr........

LOL don't you wish our OLD selves could read this thread???? struggling to eat ENOUGH calories in a day hahahah

I was never able to calorie cycle (or as it's known in WW..the Wendie plan) because of those very reasons. I feel like I'm eating all day as it is :lol:

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I am stopping eating when I am full these days. I think I might switch back to 1700 every day for a couple weeks and then calorie cycle the other two but not QUITE so extreme. I do get pretty hungry on my 1400 days so I think I'll take some of the 2000 and add it to there.

It's weird to think that I used to eat 5-6000 calories regularly and not even twig... you know?

Sounds like you are working it the way it needs to fit to you :) and yes it's weird thinking about how much I used to eat before! Ugh....and the bad part was I thought what I was eating wasn't *that* much :lol: