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Do you eat a whole lot of carbs and sugar? I’m guessing you do since that what most junk food is made of. Now I still occasionally eat too much junk food, but something I did really helped me.

Basically I broke my addiction to carbs, and tried to realign eating in my life as a necessity, not a leisure activity. Obviously it’s nice to enjoy food, but if you have a problem this can help.

What I did was rather extreme. I did the first two weeks of the South Beach Diet (note, no the Atkins diet which is not healthy at all). The South Beach Diet was very hard, but ever since then I’ve seen the lasting results of having way more control over my eating than I used to.

Hope this helps, Jessica

Fat and thin are relative, and you may not ever be as thin as you WANT to be. You exercise, that’s fantastic, and that will increase your appetite. To lose weight, you simply have to increase calorie expenditure, decrease caloric intake, or, ideally, a combination of the two. That’s all.

So, you need to know what your caloric intake is, what your expenditure is, and then make sure your using more calories than you consume. If your losing weight, a healthy loss is no more than 2 pounds a week. Keep in mind, with exercise, you’re putting on muscle mass which is relatively dense — so you may be getting healthier, but see no change, or even an increase, in weight.

Point being, don’t count on the scale to measure your overall health.

Here’s a way to track your calories: http://www.thecaloriecounter.com/

Here’s a way to track your expenditure: http://www2.hsc.edu/fitness/calculato…

Ideally, you’d track for about 4 weeks, but you can probably get by with a week if your routine is regular.

Er, as an example: If you are maintaining your weight at 2000 calories a day, then reduce your caloric intake by about 500 calories, and you will lose about 1-2 pounds a week.

A lot of people find it helpful to snack between meals, and have smaller main meals, so they aren’t hungry throughout the day.

If you can work with a trainer, that would be fantastic. Maybe a weight training coach at school if there is one. Even an athletic coach is likely to be able to help.

Also I’m wondering exactly what your weight and height is? If you are at a healthy weight but have too much “flab” or fat, focusing on weight training and toning your body may help. Building muscle increases your weight but it makes you slender, strong, and calorie burning machine. So even if you weight more you may fit into smaller clothes.

After rereading your post I want to add that of course you feel hungrier after you exercise! You’ve raised your metabolism and that means the food you do eat will be burned off quicker. On the other hands it’s important to eat the good foods. Things with fiber, whole wheat bread, oatmeal, etc, good sugar such as fruit, low fat dairy products and lean meat for protein. Also if you like vegetable, have at them, snack to your hearts content on baby carrots. These things break down so much easier and have so much less calories than the processed, packaged foods we often buy that it will burn right off you. I find yogurt to be extremely useful since it has both protein and sugar. Of course be careful in the kind of yogurt you buy.

Another question. Do you drink non-diet sodas, or alot of fruit juice? I find that cutting out sugary drinks from your diet is a simple way to immediately cut down on calories but not feel like you are missing out on too much. But don’t think that b/c you drink diet, water, crystal lite, that you can eat foods that have more calorie content–that would cancel out the effect.

I did the same thing, you shouldn’t feel bad. What you can do to feel better about what you eat is only keep healthy junk in the house, like fruits and when you snack try snacking on high fiber junk it fills you up and drink water it does the same thing. And don’t bum yourself out, no one will ever be the weight they were at 14 or 15. So enjoy your curves.

If you know that you aren’t hungry and still feel like you should eat try drinking
water instead. And then find something active to do. Like take a walk or
bike ride.

Do you take any meds?