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Originally Posted by omgzitsmiranda
Your vitamins shouldn't have anything to do with your hunger so to say, it's just your way of giving your body the things it needs while you're on such a strictive diet. Does that make sense? When you're getting hungry .... do you think you're actually hungry or brain hunger? I get brain hunger sometimes, chug some water & poof it's gone!
What products are you using?
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I've been trying the water thing, but a lot of the time I'm actually hungry. I have a hard time between lunch and dinner, today I decided to have a bar around 2:30, after I had about 10 ounces of water. Then I was very hungry after dinner. I drank a cup of tea and a cup of water, but still very hungry, so I decided to have an RTD. I did exercise today - 30 minutes on a bike at about 60 - 70% max heart rate. So I don't feel too guilty about the extra snack.
A typical day looks like this:
Breakfast: RTD + 1-2 boiled egg whites, OR Proti-Diet Oatmeal, OR 3 egg whites + 1 egg, OR Proti-Diet pancake
Lunch: Proti-Diet chicken soup or an RTD, veggies are either a salad (spinach, sprouts, cucumber, peppers) or sometimes roasted broccoli/cauliflower
Dinner: 8 oz meat (usually chicken, pork loin or lean gr. beef), OR sometimes 2 eggs, veggies are usually roasted asparagus + mushrooms OR celeriac fries
Snack: Oh Yeah bar (usually), sometimes a pure protein bar
For condiments I use WF syrup, WF ketchup, WF raspberry jelly, and occasionally (1-2 times/week) I'll use a little Bolthouse farms yogurt dressing. Which, I know, I really shouldn't. Otherwise I'll make my own dressing w/olive oil & vinegar.
I usually have 2 - 3 cups of tea a day, sometimes 1 cup of coffee, plus an ounce of milk and splenda (try to keep the splenda to 3 packets per day)
I'll have to watch my water intake a bit more. I
think I'm getting enough, but I'm not really measuring. Maybe I'll fill a 64-ounce jug tomorrow and see how I do with that by the end of the day.
I was VERY hungry today. Don't know what it is. It seemed like I was doing well after the first week or so, no cravings. Now I'm really craving a lot and missing a lot of different foods. I'm sure a lot of it is psychological, but I do think some of it is physical as well. Hmmmm.....but I'm not giving up hope!
One thing that just struck me - my husband was doing this with me, but is now in maintenance, so I don't have my diet partner anymore. Kind of hard to watch him and our 2 kids eat more food than me. This whole diet is just a big adjustment for me.
Also, I was extremely cold today. Is this pretty normal?
makes total sense... for me being under 200 pounds also means not being OBESE. Keep up the good work!
