how long does it take to get used to eating less?

because i am always starving!!!

thanks!

for me, about a week. although after about 2-3 weeks it was habbit, once i started seeing results i was even more postivive about the ammount of food i was eating.

however, my first week i was eating about 1600 cal/day. b/c it was such a change i couldnt fathom eating less. slowly i got down to now (about 1300 /day) and it's a lot easier. your body gets used to it. i dont reccomend starting a diet at a strck 1200cal or something b/c you'll feel hungry b/c its a sudden change!

even small success helps motivate you!

good luck!

how many cals are you eating/what are you eating? 

if you feel starving try drinking a pint of water and give it 30 min

if after that u still starving try a apple and banana thats what i do.....

For me, the hunger rarely goes away entirely.  I have found that I do better with about 30% of my daily calories coming from protein, 50% or so from carbs (obviously high quality and mostly veggies and fruits).  I fill out the rest with healthy fats and certainly also have to try and get 30g of fiber or more...  eesh.  Frankly, otherwise I'm pretty ravenous.  It usually takes me between a week and 2 to come to a comfort level:  the right protein/carb/fat ratios for me and some kind of tolerable level of grumbling belly syndrome. 

The good news is, when you see that movement on the scale and the loosening of your pants, you start to equate a little grumbling with positive outcomes!  It helps create more motivation and then a successful cycle of manageable calorie deficit and healthy weight loss. 

Good luck and let me know if you find any tricks to silencing the hunger gremlins.

It took a good 3 weeks before I got comfortable with my reduced intake.  I still get hungry sometimes, but the trick to keeping the hunger at bay is healthy snacks.  I find that bananas are seriously powerful snack foods.  And I'm on a prune kick here lately - they make great afternoon pick-me-ups!

It took me about 2-3 weeks before I got used to it.  I have learned to keep single servings of crystal light around and whenever I am really hungry I drink one of them quickly - it helps with my sweet cravings and fills me up.  I second the healthy snacks - bananas, mini wheats, rice cakes, carrot sticks are all my friends.

Eat small meals throughout the day, and you can train your body to NOT be hungry anymore. It'll get used to being nourished every 2-3 hours, so it can't really complain.

For me (the first time), it took a few weeks. This time around, my body was fine right off the bat.

Hey,

I'm kinda new here, maybe I am odd but I didn't have hunger issues. Did you enter your information into the calculator to find out how much you should be eating? If you did that then it does a VERY good job helping. I was told by a family member if you go on a calorie intake diet, if you eat the right foods you will never be hungry. When I find myself hungry I look back over my food log and realize what I probobly shouldn't have ate that day and why I am out of calories to use. Give that a shot, after a month or so when you have seen what is bad and how many calories really are in alfredo you won't want to eat a full bowl, what you eat will become a sub-consious effort and it will come easy to you. But remember "If your hungry at the end of the day you likely ate something that you could have subsituted for something with more volume." The water trick above works too... and water is a nessesity to a diet anyway.

No that's absolutely right, if you plan your diet correctly you don't need to starve-- I can't live without dessert, for example, and I found by replacing a half cup of ice cream with hot fudge with a banana with peanut butter and chocolate I get the same amount of calories but not that empty, crave-y post-sugar feeling that ice cream gives me.  Also, replacing lettuce with spinach even makes salads really filling.