# First week on Huel - what am I doing wrong?

**URL:** https://discuss.huel.com/t/first-week-on-huel-what-am-i-doing-wrong/2237
**Category:** Experiences
**Created:** [April 15, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/first-week-on-huel-what-am-i-doing-wrong/2237 "2016-04-15T16:57:56Z")
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### Author: ![Marcus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.huel.com/marcus/32/11457_2.png) [@Marcus](https://discuss.huel.com/u/Marcus)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://discuss.huel.com/t/first-week-on-huel-what-am-i-doing-wrong/2237/3 "2016-04-15T18:14:38Z")

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Hi Jess, welcome to the forum 🙂

Maybe you actually need more calories than the calculator says. The calculator is only a guide, a starting point.

Listen to your body. If you feel hungry, have more. Find what amount naturally satisfies you, and then experiment with pulling back a little bit.

Two other things you can try which might help:

- Making it thicker
- Drinking it more slowly throughout the day

It’s worth reading through the following thread, as the exact same issue was discussed there in some detail:

> [@So so hungry. What am I doing wrong?](https://discuss.huel.com/t/so-so-hungry-what-am-i-doing-wrong/1931/10):
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> Maybe I’ll try that, Julian. It’s just 500 calories for each serving sounds like an awful lot when you think that I’d have had, for example, two bits of toast for breakfast and that would total about 200. If I needed to take 500 calories every two hours (although actually I lasted about 2.5 this morning on three scoops), that would be an insane amount of calories for me. Height - 5 foot 6, weight, a little over 300 (I don’t want to post the exact figure publicly), age mid 40s, female. I am extr…

I hope that helps.

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