How can I be still hungry after spending $800 a month for food?

Congratulations of the weight loss. However, I suggest your approach isn’t balanced.

Eat breakfast in two sessions, one half when you wake up and one half for a snack. Get regular sleep and enough exercise. Stop drinking soda completely and switch to water.

You can eat a lot more green leafy vegetables and a little more fruit (one or two pieces a day) and still lose weight.

Sounds like you are eating a lot of high calorie, low volume foods. Eat more vegetables and fruits, less carbs sugars and fats.

You’re not eating much real food. Canned spaghetti, hot dogs, pizza, power and chocolate bars, pop, and juice don’t quality. I don’t even know what a kubasa is.

Is there no one teaching you about good nutrition in your living facility? Should not that be a vital part of getting well?

Vegetables (salads are the easiest), fruits, complex carbohydrates (brown rice, barley, quinoa, oatmeal) and some fish and perhaps eggs from free-range chickens. Even a peanut butter, jam and whole wheat toast sandwich isn’t a bad choice.

I thought that your top weight was 300 lbs? When did it jump to 350lbs?

I don’t understand how you can spend $800/month either. Do you do any grocery shopping or cooking?

$800 a month is lot for food. I spend $30—$50 for a week and a half’s worth of food plus occasional buying out, so that is about $120 a month. Find time to make your own meals. I cook in bulk. For example, on Sundays I’ll usually cook chicken breasts for the week. Get it all done with at once because I sometimes don’t have the time during the week, especially since I usually cook something else daily. I am not 100% sure of what you are expecting as an answer, but if you’re going on weight loss, I recommend you ditch the soda and chocolate bars. Having more consistent meals will work best for your nutrition as well. Try incorporating a little bit of everything, especially fruits and veggies. Try eating lean proteins like fish and chicken. Hot dogs are mainly fat and probably processed, and pizza is a carbo-overload. Exercise as well.

I hardly spend $800 a month on food for a family of five! I think those who said that you aren’t eating the right kind of food have it right. All that processed stuff is just not good for you. You will save a fortune and have a much healthier diet if you ditched all pizzas, hot dogs, and canned spaghetti for some fresh fruits and vegetables along with some sources of lean protein. The chocolate bars and soda nothing but costly, empty, sugar filled calories, ditch those and you will see a drop in weight and grocery cost almost immediately.

It’s a bitch (for me, too), but if you eat a breakfast that includes protein and comprises 25% of your calories for the day, you will be less hungry throughout the day.

Weight Watchers has this list of filling foods which you may want to consider.

Finally, what are you feeding? Are you feeding your body, your pangs, your anxiety, or perhaps a candida fungus. It’s worth answering the question.

Starve the body too much, and it gets the hint and slows down – you’ll feel irritable, fatigued, and begin to lose muscle as well as fat. After clawing your way through hunger pangs and dreams of food, the chances are you will binge, or start eating back how you used to.

Guess what happens next? The weight piles on because your body is still in “slow” mode. Fat loss is all about calorie reduction, but a calorie intake that is too low will cause problems.

T a p e w o r m ?

Meds reaction?

Skipping breakfast is a bad way to start the day. It sets you up for feeling hungry all the time.

Spend your money on real food. Protein is harder to digest and break down, so you will feel fuller for a longer period.
Eat food that is cheap on the pocket and great for the your health and sticks to you longer, like real oatmeal, or baked potatoes or sweet potato pancakes.
I find warm food gives you a feeling of feeling fuller longer.
Salads and fruits are great middle snack.
Drink plenty of water.
A high sugar diet will have you spike and then crash, which will cause you to feel hungry.
Carbs take longer to digest. Just don’t over-do or you will gain weight. Spread through out the day in small doses, you can control the sugar spike and crash. Proteins also help.

I just ate half a month expired cherry pie (I didn’t find anything wrong with it)... I found it in my fridge and I was running out of money so I ate a little KFC kids meal ( drumstick, chocolate milk, and stick of cheese for $5) and drank some bottled water.

Um, I spend less than $800/month for a family of three, a dog, and a bunny — and, we eat out about three times a month.

I agree with the above statements that you need to shop for real food. Let’s look at the canned pasta.

About $1.00–2.00/can
One Serving
Poor Nutrition

Now, homemade pasta:
Lb. of Barilla Pasta: .89¢-$1.00
Fresh tomato sauce: $2.00
Four to Five Servings
Much healthier

You need to get on a program like weight watchers so you can get a basic education on healthy eating.

Get yourself a slow cooker andmake up your own stews soups and pasta sauces. You are eating mostly junk food.

@talljasperman
You neglected to inform the rest of the group that you rent a room in a house full of people whom share the kitchen and as you recently moved there that you either do not feel
comfortable cooking amoung them (or using the outdated pots and pans ) or do not have the fridge space ( small) to store your own in the freezer?
Give your self time to adjust to the new surroundings and at the end of this month when
you get your next cheque then “plan” a strategy of meals for the next upcoming month better.
We all learn through experience.
I think all will pan out better once you straighten this one problem.
You will be allright.