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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Well, if you're only eating 1,500 calories a day, I suppose you'd have to have some kind of trick.
I could never do with that low. I'd blow through at least half of that alone with a single workout, and that's not even accounting for all the daily walking I do. I was told by a personal trainer recently that my maintenance caloric level is 2,400 a day, but this accounts for my level of activity and so would explain the big difference.
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It doesn't matter how many calories I eat. 1,500, 1,800, 2k, 2.5k, 3k. I stay hungry all day long, everyday, every waking hour, regardless of what I eat. Eat breakfast at 6:00 AM, could eat a whole pizza at 8 AM. By 10 AM I could eat a whole pizza and want more. When I eat lunch at 12, I am full until 1:30, and then the "whole pizza" status starts again. The only way this doesn't happen to me is if I eat 4,000 calories per day.
Unfortunately, even going to 1,800 per day results in immediate weight gain. A diet pro told me I wasn't eating enough and my body was in starvation mode. So I did what she said, ate the foods she wanted me to eat, and went up to 2,500 a day, and boom, gained 15 pounds in 3 weeks.
I work out every single day, and I used to do the elliptical/jogging 3+ times per week also but it never helped.
I will be sitting at work and turn around at 9:30 AM and ask my unit, is anyone hungry but me? Everyone says no. At 11:00 AM, still no one is hungry. I can't imagine living a life where I'm not hungry all day everyday. Plus they all eat 2,000-3,000 calories per day, sometimes more, and stay in shape, some without exercising.
/rant off