Many of you who answer seem to do strength training or other exercise. Do you ever experience a sudden surge in appetite?

For someone doing intense exercise like kickboxing, setting your intake at 1,200 calories a day is fundamentally misguided. Are you trying to get significantly leaner than you are now? Isn’t that less than your basal metabolic rate? If you’re trying to keep your total calorie intake down, spread your meals out. For snacks, protein shakes, boiled eggs, or dried squid are still your best options. I also eat carbs before hard strength-training sessions. But going that far makes you quite the fitness geek. Marika

I’m Aya, one of the female members. I’ve heard that excessive hunger—especially cravings for sugar—can be caused by iron or protein deficiency. To help with that, I recommend taking protein supplements and iron supplements. When I get hungry, I first eat a protein source, such as a protein shake or a boiled egg (I always keep some in the fridge), and that usually settles my appetite. Protein is essential for healthy skin, so I aim for 50 grams a day. It helps keep my skin looking great and maintain my figure. I only eat snacks about once a month, if that. Keeping an eye on your sugar intake also helps stabilize your appetite. When I go out for a course meal with my papa (a male supporter), I tell him beforehand that I don’t eat much and ask for smaller portions. At casual restaurants, I sometimes ask my papa to eat half of it. Also, try Googling “autophagy 16-hour fasting.” I generally eat just one meal a day, and this helps me maintain my figure even if I occasionally eat a little too much.