Pretty sure it's in my flair, but my stats:
29F | 6FT | SW: 340lbs | CW: 263 | GW: 170 (190?)
I guess I'm more curious why it's happening and if it's just something I need to deal with?
The last few days (Sat-Mon) I've just been so damn hungry, but I don't want junk food (yay). I've had my normal meal shakes, freezer meals, big salads, eggs and sausage, spinach, etc. All my normal foods, but I've just been craving salad and yogurt, to the point where I've eaten 3k calories. My protein goals are met at my normal 1800c budget, but I'm just empty.
The last month I've been eating around 600-900c then every 4-5 days eating 1 fast food meal that's like 2200c-ish (really bad depression and grief of lost loved ones stirring up my eating disorder, holidays suck ass) and over the last 2 weeks, I've finally been able to get back to eating a normal amount of food (1600-1900c, my goal being 1800c) and the last 8 days, I've been hitting my daily protein goal. I've also gone back to my normal exercise routine and even bumped it up a bit. Before, I was going to the gym for weight lifting and treadmill 2x/week and going to boxing once a week, with nothing else really except for an extra walk sometimes. Now I've added another day of boxing and I'm also wanting to walk more and have been, so I'm essentially exercising 5-6 times per week, 2 of those being just a chill walk, 5-9k steps.
So, here's my guess as to why I'm a bottomless pit right now:
- I've just started finally giving my body the amount of calories it needs after starving it for so long so now it's actually sending hunger signals (I wasn't getting hunger signals for a while)
- I've added more exercise so I'm burning more calories than I may realize and my body needs more fuel
- My body needs more nutrients, thus the insanely overwhelming craving for fucking leaves haha
Also could very well be a combo of all three. Just trying to see what I should be doing about it. Should I give in to the cravings a little bit, but stop at 2300-2500c (maintenance)? Should I ignore the cravings and hunger and stop at my normal deficit of 1800c? Should I drown myself (been drinking a fuck ton of water thinking that might be what the hunger signals are telling me)?
IDK how to handle this and it's frustrating. On the upside, it's nice that I'm craving healthy foods :D
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