At 7:30 this morning, I finished breakfast--scrambled eggs (1 whole, 5 whites), oatmeal (1/2 cup dry with 1/4 1% milk) and 8 oz. of orange juice. Total calories: 435 (31.05 g pro; 56.85 g carb; 8.625 g fat). It's 9:01 and I'm hungry!

I'm doing a daily calorie deficit of 20%, spreading 2,300 calories among 5 to 6 meals throughout the day. I seem to be hungry a lot. I guess this is normal?

Any ideas/suggestions for allaying the hunger? (I DO drink a lot of water.)

Thanks.

That sounds quite strange to me.

Anyway, maybe you could try drinking more water throughout eating your meals?
With the oatmeal anyway

If you are truly hungry, you are either not getting enough to drink or eat or you are burning more calories than you think. You may want to check out the stickie:

http://training.fitness.com/weight-l...ide-19721.html

Look over what sort of caloric intake you need and the deficit you created. Do a little trouble shooting.....

Try eating whole fruit instead of juice. For the same number of calories, whole fruit will make you feel more full.

Determine what type of hunger it is, first.

If you're just having cravings for something, try to think about what triggered this. Most of the time, when people start eating healthy, they just drastically switch to the healthy food without consideration of the previous food. This is a problem, since your body is used to the food given previously even though the new food might be better. You have to train your body to eat the new food by simply mixing it the old food. Slowly you'll start eating more of the healthy food and not even consider the previous food.

If you're having a biological hunger, that is hunger where you stomach makes noises or you develop a headache, then you should just eat more than you're eating now. Don't have a "time table" of times to eat and times not to eat. If you're hungry now, it's better to eat now than later if you can help it. This will prevent overeating and exercise control.

If your stomach is making a water noises, sit on the toilet.

Of course, the key to removing hunger is to constantly eat. Eat about every 1 - 2 hours. It's perfectly natural to be hungry again after just 1 hour of eating, no matter the size of the meal.

WAY too much information.......some things people just have to learn for themselves.....