Very valid point.
@anna_5588 I know that you can eat way more than 2k. You have a history of repeatedly succeeding to eat yonks beyond that during grill night. That is why I ask,
because I’m guessing that the reason you felt full at 1300 calories is because they were made up of voluminous food items. I know you have a penchant for eating a lot of vegetables. And, I have several times in the past tried to give you guidelines for reducing that. I believe I’ve suggested,
- 6-10 cups of vegetables (this is still a lot, this is a guideline used during a diet. It’s a trick to have people feel more satiated while losing weight)
- Your BW(lbs)/100, i.e. ~93lbs → 0.93lbs vegetables
and I’ve recently come to adopt the habit myself of considering fruits as coming out of the weight vegetable allowance as per option 2. to ensure that the majority of my calories are coming from things my digestive system can readily use to fuel me.
And to hammer this home, you need to do the opposite of what’d be a good trick for a person trying to lose weight. I.e., substituting high-calorie food stuffs with lower-calorie options. A person that sets out to lose weight could for instance,
- Replace granola with oatmeal (and as the diet runs longer, wheat germs to reduce carbs)
- French fries → Potatoes (removes the oil)
- Popcorn popped in a kettle → Popcorn popped in a silicone thingamajig that requires no oil
- Coffee with milk → plain coffee
- Full-fat cottage cheese → low-fat cottage cheese
and they’d presumably not feel as deprived as other options might leave them feeling. You need to do that in reverse.
Let’s say you are looking to eat some fish, that means going for salmon rather than tuna in your case.
Lastly,
I’m not convinced that this is an objective reaction to how you felt but rather this is your mind ghosts and demons trying to offer you something that appears to be reason but it isn’t really. I’ve had this happen to me too, the sensation that “no, I cannot sustain this calorie intake because X, Y, Z” but that goes away.
I’ve fallen back now in my own headway against my own problems in comparison to where I was earlier this year but I can say from my own experience that after a while of just exercising discipline to continue eating despite this sensation something magical happens. It stop feelings unsustainable. Hell, sometimes you’ll even feel hungry after meeting your calorie goal that still has you gaining.
Keep at it. Don’t give up.