How to curb appetite? I'm ALWAYS Hungry!?

Question

Hi, I am a 16 year old female girl, I am about 5'7" or a little less, and about 140. I go running everyday, I walk quite frequently, and i eat very healthily. I want to lose a few pounds, and Ive been trying sooooooo hard! I increased my running from every other day to every day, and i try to eat less, but I am still so hungry all the time.

take 100mg of zoloft, for a year now, could that be a factor of my weight gain?

But what can i do to lose 5-10 lbs?

Answer 1

Hmmm, you say you eat healthy, but I'm going to assume you do not really eat healthy if your appetite is still out of control. However, you're also a teenager, and when I was a teenager I ate like a horse with the munchies....

Anyway, you might be eating too healthy, which is unhealthy. Confused, ok...There are good carbs and bad carbs, good fat and bad fat, and different types of proteins. Food labels are a start, but they don't give the full picture.

First, switch to 5-6 meals per day, where you eat carbs, protein AND fat. Cut out all foods that include HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup). A study showed that individuals who ate a breakfast with HFCS they ingested 80% more calories throughout the course of the next few hours than those who did not. HFCS will make you hungry, so no more gatorade. Get your sugars naturally, from fruit and vegetables (don't drink anymore juice, the calories absorb too quickly and have no fiber-but it's better than soda).

Eat fat at every meal, the healthy kind. Avoid animal fats and NEVER eat trans fat, trans fat DOES get stored in specific places in the body, for men in the men section and for women it is more likely to go to the thighs and butt.

Baked potatoes and oatmeal should be your best friend. Meals high in protein stimulate the metabolism by as much as 40% for the 2-4 hours after consumption. Certain fats are essential to brain function, muscle recovery, and organ function. Finding the right balance for you can be tricky, go to a dietician to have them help you find the perfect balance for you. Stay away from pills unless they are vitamins. Most don't work, and they interfere with your metabolism slowing it in the long run when you stop taking them.

Also, eat when you're hungry, in fact try to eat before you're hungry. Supressing your appetite will encourage your metabolism to slow in the long term, and cause energy drain in the short term.

Go back to running every other day, and lift weights every other day. Then throw away your scale, and simply measure your waist daily. Lifting weights will of course build some muscle while simultaneously burning fat. Don't let the scale fool you into thinking you're not losing weight when you're gaining muscle...Last fall I made some changes to my diet and I lost 5 lbs in 6 weeks, 20 lbs of fat and gained 15 lbs muscle.

Drink more water, I can't believe I'm going to talk to a 16 year old girl about pee, so don't report me on this....but your pee has to be clear. If its got any color to it, time to drink more water. If it's clear, then no reason to drink more water. Studies show that when exercising individuals who drink heavy amounts of water before and during their workouts burn more fat and stimulate more HGH (human growth hormone). HGH obviously helps you grow taller, but it also assists in fat burning and speeding of the metabolism. Running at a pace fast enough that you almost drop after 20 minutes after your weight training will help to increase your HGH levels, and in turn help you burn more fat.

Before you workout or run, eat an apple or an orange. There are approximately 100 calories in each, and those calories will help you to run further and faster, helping you burn more calories than you would if your glycemic level was low. Then have some protein afterwards, preferably a protein shake. This also helps to stimulate your metabolism and encourage muscle hypertrophy, poor diet along with exercise leads to muscle catabolism. Hypertrophy is growth of muscles, catabolism is where your body breaks down muscle for fuel. Remember, the more muscle you have the more calories you can consume.

Its your body fat percentage you should be concerned with, and as a woman not even that so much. Breasts and butt are all fat, but I'm sure they aren't something you want to get rid of. Focus on inches, not weight. Weight is just a let down for women. Adding muscle will help you look slimmer even without fat loss. At 140 lbs and say 20% body fat, if you gained 10 lbs of muscle and your fat leve stayed the same, you'd be at 150 lbs and 18.6% body fat.

Once your diet and exercise reflect the suggestions I have made then the fat should start to come off very easily. 5'7" and 140# is perfect for me, if I were to design a woman I would ask for those numbers specifically, don't be fooled because you're not the skinniest girl, skinniest IS NOT sexiest. But its your body and your self image, you do what you feel is right for you. My ex was extremely skinny, and it was gross. She tried to put on weight but she couldn't...your weight is right on the money, She was 5'8" and 120#. Really, it was nasty....I would have rather been with a girl built like you anyday.

Answer 2

Since you are trying to work off the weight by running your metabolism and appetite might be getting kicked up so you will need to eat. The key is limiting your calories in a day. Dont eat less just eat better, starving yourself only makes your body store fat because it thinks you are dying. Each pound of fat is about 3500 calories. So if you limit your calories to around 1000-1200 calories a day along with excersize you should lose about a pound a week. It won't be easy it will take a true commitment. For your size 130 is an ideal weight so try to get there in about 3 months then you can eat around 1600 to 1700 calories a day but keep up the running. The zoloft may make weight loss more difficult but stick with it, you may not need to take it anymore once the weight comes off and you find a healthier lifestyle.

Answer 3

Well as everyone else is saying, drinking plenty of water is a great way to suppress your appetite but I know how your feeling. I am currently on a diet and have cut my calories a lot. Being hungry definitely sucks so here is what I am doing.

Instead of eating three large meals, I eat 4-5 smaller meals during the day. It helps me stay fuller longer. If I am hungry and get the urge to eat, make sure you have some healthy options to snack on such as 100 calorie packs, fruit, deli meat, or some veggies like celery or carrots. Especially if you have started running more, you are burning more calories as it is, so remember that when your usual fare does not fill you up. Hope that helped!

Answer 4

Any medicine youre taking could possibly have an effect on that, a lot of my friends said they had bad experiences when they took meds and it made them gain weight.

To curb your appetite i suggest drinking a big mug of milky chai(tea). A lot of people just reallyt need fluids so they eat. Dont evben wait till ur hungry to drink, drink like when you come home from school and stuff. Also try drinking warm water with lemon in it before meals.
Eat with chopsticks- try it and also make an effort not to get impatient with them youd just have to get used 2 using them

and donttt eat bread like that blonde girl sed!! It just makes you more hungry. Take fiber pillss.


and...i dont make to be a nitpick but thats a myth what stfacey sed. Excercise actually makes you less hungry.

Answer 5

Try drinking alot of water. I think the zoloft has alot to do with it. I'm 5'6 and i did weigh 125 but started effexor and ended up weighing 148. I'm no longer on the effexor and before i got pregnant i weighed 140. It's very hard to lose that weight. but it takes time.. Go on ebay and get a weight watchers set. Then you dont have to go to meetings but you can follow their points system that works!

Answer 6

To curb my hunger I eat ice cubes. During the day evertime I get a drink I always have ice cubes in it. They tend to fill you up and it something that won't add pounds on. You are also probably always hungry because you are running more. Exercise tends to make people hungry cause you are burning off calories.

Answer 7

Drink water, also. Eat 5 to 6 small meals per day. Eat more frequent but not more. That way, your body will always have the nutrients in need.

Answer 8

If I wanted to curb my hunger, I would take some of the more thicker leaves of a lettuce head, get a big glass of cold water, and start snacking!

Just a handful or two and a glass makes me full, I don't even want to eat anything! lol

And the good thing is, lettuce has like, almost no calories and a chunk of nutritional value, so I can be full and not worry about getting fatter. ^_^

Answer 9

Zoloft is definitely a factor in your weight gain, but not your appetite. Water is definitely a great idea...add some lemon to it once in a while for variety. Sounds boring but it works.

Answer 10

First of all, your weight sounds healthy to me. But if you want to curb your hunger, make sure you're eating lots of fiber, which you can find in whole grain cereals, breads and pastas as well as some protein, like eggs and lean meats. These things stick to your ribs a lot better than things full of white flour and sugar.