Every now and then...maybe a couple days a month... I just am not hungry. Today I ate a very big breakfast - bigger than normal - and have not been too hungry the rest of the day. I did eat some dinner, but according to TDP my total calories for the day are 890
I normally have around 1300-1350 calories a day, but today I'm just not that hungry. I don't want to force myself to eat something, and it's already 8:30 (I have a no eating after 7 rule), and I've been drinking a lot of water since I just got back from a run.
Is it ok to have days like this, as long as they are few and far between?
Dunno. I know i haven't been hungry; just found out 2 days ago my mum is having a menopause baby next month! ><; But when i get like this, i make myself eat something - i know my body needs it.
I absolutely had days where I ate 900-1200 calories. I aimed for at least a 1200-1400 AVERAGE each day. I think I followed a calorie shifting plan naturally. Some days more - some days less. To me - following natural hunger cues made a lot of sense. Retraining my body and brain to eat for fuel - when I am hungry - was an important piece. If I was to truly lose weight and maintain, I needed to follow those hunger cues.
That being said - DO log your calories and keep track. You DO need to make sure you are getting enough fuel and nutrients for your body.
Dunno. I know i haven't been hungry; just found out 2 days ago my mum is having a menopause baby next month! ><; But when i get like this, i make myself eat something - i know my body needs it.
Yes! It has been driving me crazy. It will get to be 8pm and I have only ate like 800 calories for the day. I have cut out alot of empty calories from my diet, and now it feels I have to eat all the time! I am getting better at portioning out my calories now, but it is still hard to adjust to eating ALL THE TIME and still consuming less calories than before I started losing weight.
I don't think it can hurt Once in a While, and I was advised only yesterday not to eat when I felt full just because I 'ought' to.
Suspect the key is to be very careful not to get into the habit of going low every day - it can be very easy to get used to a little, and we all know that's not good for us.
I would think it to mean - that you believe you're done with your period, in menopause, perhaps stopped using birth control because of it - and then you find yourself - pregnant. So you're period was probably just slowing down, yet you were still ovulating.
As for the OP. I think it's okay once in a while. I don't think it's wise to get into that eating though not hungry phase. Just make sure that the foods that you are eating are nutritionally dense. If you find it happening many, many days in a row, then it *may* be time to add a bit more calorie dense foods into your day.
Well I'm famished this morning so it's definitely not an everyday thing!
Yeah, I definitely am trying to move AWAY from eating even though I'm not hungry so forcing myself to eat when I don't feel like it seems counterproductive.
I get like that some days and I don't force myself to eat. As a kid I was a member of the clean plate club, so as an adult that is something I refuse to keep doing. But it doesn't happen everyday.
I say enjoy it and rejoice it when it happens...because if you are anything like me, it seems to be far and few in between. Unless you have had issues in the past with disorders like anorexia, I think it's perfectly normal to not always be hungry.
I think it is totally normal. I don't know why it happens but if your body needs something it will let you know. It happens to me every now and then but not too often.
I have noticed it for me too. Glad it's not just me! I will go to log in my food at the end of the day and realize I had not eaten much! It is really a new and wonderful feeling to not THINK about eating all the time! But I am sure to pay close attention the next day so I don't get in a bad habit of not eating.
lol might be a "change of life baby" your body starts to prepare for menopause, or it starts - something like that, then you get pregnant, which has similar symptoms to menopause. IT happens to some women, others it doesnt.
Its fine to have those low calorie days. So long as it happens naturally and you are not purposely starving, no harm, no foul.
There is no reason to force feed if you are truly not hungry. And just the same there is no reason to starve when you ARE truly hungry.
I will go through spurts where for a week i'll eat between 800-1200 cals per day and then the next week I'll be hungry and eat more like 1800-2200 per day.
Overall these phases do not affect my weight.
Days when you don't eat a lot?
