I have been working out for a couple months and the results aren’t coming in as quickly as I would have liked…BUT I feel Fan-Tab-U-Lous!!! So what is up?? Well I am HUNGRY ALL THE TIME! For Real…Stomach growling hunger All the time! So I did a bit of searching around to find an answer…Here are suggestions I found:
EAT every 2.5-3 hours…having protein & fat in each small meal and each “Snack Set” should help you with hunger. Drinking water with the small meals helps too. Try taking in about 80 oz of water a day. The “snack” meals (aka “snack set”) should consist of things like:
+almonds (6-10)
+veggie sticks (1 cup of raw veggies)
+regular fat cheese (1 oz)
+yogurt (low fat kind) 8 oz)
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Sometimes it helps to break things down by calories per hour.
For instance if you only want to consume 1800 cals that day, Figure you'll be awake for 16 hours...That gives you 112 cals an hour to consume. Pick various foods and portion sizes that are 112 cals or less. Pick out your foods for the day in advance & have a good idea of how many calories’ in what. Doing this can also help you learn to spot the low calorie stuff.
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If you're honestly hungry, look at the content of your foods. Are you getting enough fats? That's probably the biggest cause of hunger amongst people watching their intake! About 30% of your calories should be coming from fat; if everything you eat is low fat, then that's probably not happening.
I will keep searching for a good “snack set” that leaves me not hungry for awhile…
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