skysooner

Well, I'm trying to stick to 1900 to 2000 calories per day. Sometimes my lunches are less, sometimes more. My wife will generally fix a 250 to 400 calorie dinner. Like I said, I generally eat a low-cal biscuit (50 calories) in the morning. My body is just not hungry then. This leaves me eating one large meal during the day (which is my lunch). I go home and work out and then am ready for dinner. When I say I'm hungry, it doesn't mean the body craving something necessarily. Many times my hunger is a mental thing. This was very pronounced when I first started cutting my food intake (when I was taking in 3000 cals plus a day). After I started losing weight, I would eat a more than sufficient meal and my mind was trying to tell me the body was hungry when it really couldn't be. This was part of the reason I was so overweight (249 lbs vs. 174 lbs upper end BMI). I have hypoglycemia, so I'm very well aware of having to snack a bit at different times, and I really know what hunger is since my blood sugar was dropping. I'm now 184 lbs with about 10 more to lose and then my diet will adjust back to a heavier food intake. My hypoglycemia has basically gone away, my cholesterol is way down, and my energy/health is way up.

Any suggestions you make would be appreciated. I have been kind of winging this. It has worked, but I know it may not necessarily be the best way.