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Always hungry on your diet? Here is why and the fix

Always hungry on your diet? Here is why and the fix

You cut your food way down and feel starving all day, but that hunger usually means you cut too much, and it can slow your weight loss. The fix is not less food; it is more protein and fibre, like a besan chilla and dahi, for just a few extra calories.

12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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If you feel starving all day on your diet, it means the diet is working.

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Mostly false. A little hunger is normal for the first day or two. But hunger that never quits usually means you cut too much. Your body then fights back. It slows how much you burn by about 65 to 230 kcal a day. So you feel hungrier and lose slower, not faster.

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