Full Version: I feel hungry all the time! Help!
I don't know what is wrong with me but for as long as I can remember, I have always felt that I am always hungry, even when I've just eaten recently. I have hypothyroidism after having cancer and radiation therapy 7 years ago, but even before that I was hungry all the time. I take synthroid for my hypo. About a year ago I went to a weight loss center and went on a low-carb, low-fat, low-cal diet (like 700-800 calories a day) where they give you B12 and B6 shots and a drug called phendimetrazine. That stuff was a miracle for me - for the first time in my life, I was not hungry and stuck to the diet and the weight fell off fast. But once I lost the weight and tried to go on maintenance, some of it has slowly crept back on. I know its largely because my exercise has slowed and though I generally eat pretty healthy, my portions are too big. And I am hungry within an hour after I eat it seems. What else can I do help rev up my metabolism (besides working out - I know, I know - I am joining a new gym this week!) and reduce my cravings? Sometimes I think its in my brain, that the part of it that tells me I'm hungry never shuts off - unless I am on the phendimetrazine, which is too expensive and not healthy to stay on long term. Any ideas? How can I control my appetite and keep my portions in check better and not feel hungry 24/7?
Hi LiLi77
You have had some major health challenges over the past several years. I haven't had the concerns you have had but I can certainly relate to feeling hungry all the time. You mentioned that you were interested in revving up your metabolism, and the link below may give you some insight:
http://www.healthcastle.com/boost_metabolism_bauer.shtml
Good luck with everything LiLi77 and I'm sure others within the forum will give you some fine insight as well.
Take care, Tracey
You have had some major health challenges over the past several years. I haven't had the concerns you have had but I can certainly relate to feeling hungry all the time. You mentioned that you were interested in revving up your metabolism, and the link below may give you some insight:
http://www.healthcastle.com/boost_metabolism_bauer.shtml
Good luck with everything LiLi77 and I'm sure others within the forum will give you some fine insight as well.
Take care, Tracey
Hi LiLi77,
It seems to me your metabolism is working pretty fast if you are always hungry, I think any diet that limits you to 700 cals per day is to be avoided, unless your a Leprechaun or something.
Without knowing the type of food you normally eat it is pretty hard to give advice on why you are always hungry. You could look at foods that have a high satiety rating (stick to the ribs rating) and see if they help.
Protein is low in cals and has a good satiety rating and this is why the Atkins Diet worked, exercise that increases your body temperature is better for weight loss because it helps control satiety.
http://www.csiro.au/science/Designing-Food.html
Low carb diets have recently been found to be the best for weight loss, twice as good as low calorie diets.
The latest research would indicate a low carb diet is the best diet for humans.
January 22, 2009 - 12:35PM
It's official, a low-carb diet is better at burning fat than just cutting calories.
Scientists who were working to find out how diet affects the operation of the liver put 14 overweight people on either a low carbohydrate or low calorie diet.
They found those eating fewer carbs lost almost double the weight over two weeks, and several changes in liver function were identified as part of the reason why.
"Energy production is expensive for the liver," says Dr Jeffrey Browning, assistant professor at the UT Southwestern Medical Centre, in Dallas, Texas.
"It appears that for the people on a low-carbohydrate diet, in order to meet that expense, their livers have to burn excess fat."
The average weight loss for the low-calorie dieters was about 2.2kg, while the low-carb dieters lost about 4.3kg on average.
Dr Browning said the study highlighted how diet could cause a "dramatic change" in where and how the liver was producing glucose - a form of sugar.
Glucose and fat are both sources of energy that are metabolised in the liver and used as energy in the body.
Test subjects on the low-calorie diets got about 40 per cent of their glucose from a substance called "glycogen" - which is made from ingested carbohydrates stored in the liver until needed.
Those on low-carb diets, however, sourced only 20 per cent of their glucose from glycogen as they burned more fat instead of dipping into their reserves.
Dr Browning said the findings offered new hope for targeted non drug-related treatments for obesity and also liver-related disorders such as diabetes, insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
"Instead of looking at drugs to combat obesity and the diseases that stem from it, maybe optimising diet can not only manage and treat these diseases, but also prevent them," says Dr Browning.
"Understanding how the liver makes glucose under different dietary conditions may help us better regulate metabolic disorders with diet."
The findings are published in the journal Hepatology.
As Tracey has pointed out the HealthCastle site is one of the best places to start gathering information.
Cheers and good luck.
It seems to me your metabolism is working pretty fast if you are always hungry, I think any diet that limits you to 700 cals per day is to be avoided, unless your a Leprechaun or something.
Without knowing the type of food you normally eat it is pretty hard to give advice on why you are always hungry. You could look at foods that have a high satiety rating (stick to the ribs rating) and see if they help.
Protein is low in cals and has a good satiety rating and this is why the Atkins Diet worked, exercise that increases your body temperature is better for weight loss because it helps control satiety.
http://www.csiro.au/science/Designing-Food.html
Low carb diets have recently been found to be the best for weight loss, twice as good as low calorie diets.
The latest research would indicate a low carb diet is the best diet for humans.
January 22, 2009 - 12:35PM
It's official, a low-carb diet is better at burning fat than just cutting calories.
Scientists who were working to find out how diet affects the operation of the liver put 14 overweight people on either a low carbohydrate or low calorie diet.
They found those eating fewer carbs lost almost double the weight over two weeks, and several changes in liver function were identified as part of the reason why.
"Energy production is expensive for the liver," says Dr Jeffrey Browning, assistant professor at the UT Southwestern Medical Centre, in Dallas, Texas.
"It appears that for the people on a low-carbohydrate diet, in order to meet that expense, their livers have to burn excess fat."
The average weight loss for the low-calorie dieters was about 2.2kg, while the low-carb dieters lost about 4.3kg on average.
Dr Browning said the study highlighted how diet could cause a "dramatic change" in where and how the liver was producing glucose - a form of sugar.
Glucose and fat are both sources of energy that are metabolised in the liver and used as energy in the body.
Test subjects on the low-calorie diets got about 40 per cent of their glucose from a substance called "glycogen" - which is made from ingested carbohydrates stored in the liver until needed.
Those on low-carb diets, however, sourced only 20 per cent of their glucose from glycogen as they burned more fat instead of dipping into their reserves.
Dr Browning said the findings offered new hope for targeted non drug-related treatments for obesity and also liver-related disorders such as diabetes, insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
"Instead of looking at drugs to combat obesity and the diseases that stem from it, maybe optimising diet can not only manage and treat these diseases, but also prevent them," says Dr Browning.
"Understanding how the liver makes glucose under different dietary conditions may help us better regulate metabolic disorders with diet."
The findings are published in the journal Hepatology.
As Tracey has pointed out the HealthCastle site is one of the best places to start gathering information.
Cheers and good luck.
Oh its so nice but i dont feel hungry at all,,,, give me some tips which will help me to feel hungry,,,,
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