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Originally posted by skysooner
Your diet can play a large part in your emotions. The times I feel depressed about life are when I'm hungry or sleepy. I can eat something and my body still screams for food. It all depends on what you eat, etc. Yes, there are things that you can snack on that have very few calories and can provide a temporary sense of fullness. I generally keep fat free jello around the house. I'll snack on this, low fat ice cream bars, etc. Just be aware that virtually everything has a cost to it even if it has no calories. For example, diet cokes will make you retain water a bit which leads to your weight being higher for a period of time. Everbody has a different food cycle. I'm generally not hungry early in the morning, so I'll eat a 50 calorie snack (varies). Lunch is my big meal of the day. I'll eat 1200-1400 calories at lunch. I may have a mid-afternoon to late afternoon 50 cal snack. Dinner is generally 500 calories early in the evening. If I need to snack, I'll have a 50 cal snack in the later evening and then go to bed. This works for me, and my body is satisfied. I'm hungry in the evening but not to the point it has an effect on my mood. Of course, I'm in weight loss mode at the moment, so that hungry feeling is a good thing. It means my body is using fat stores to take care of itself.
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Not to be anal, but your diet needs some heavy tweaking. Your body feeling hungry is not an indicator of it using fat, it is an indicator of you starving it. 1200-1400 calories for lunch is extremely high and your 50 calorie snacks are extremely low. You are making this harder on your body then need be. Your results will be better if you fix your nutrition, and best of all you have to deal with that "hungry" feeling.