It seems like feeling like I'm starving for some time is just the way it's going to be [View all]

on my diet. I'm just counting calories and holding it under 1500 every day and it's working well.

One key is that I've found early morning to be the best time to gut it out and make myself wait to eat. I'm retired so I can see where that wouldn't work out for a lot of people.

I usually get up about five and used to eat breakfast right away. That made it a pretty long stretch over the day making those 1500 calories last until it was time to go to bed around nine. I decided to hold out for a couple hours every morning to start my meals later so I wasn't starving half the afternoon or going to bed hungry. That has had an added benefit in that I started doing my dishes and stuff to keep busy and eat up some clock, along with taking my shower before I start cooking breakfast.

I try and keep it to where I have a good 150 calories to spare after dinner around five. The worst time for me to be getting hungry is hanging out watching TV in the evening. I keep a bunch of things around that work well for a couple snacks that fit in the 150.