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TIFU by not realizing why I was so hungry all the goddamn time

The last few weeks, I've been starving. I eat a healthy meal for dinner (spaghetti with homemade meatballs and lots of veggies, breakfast bake with eggs and sausage and cheese and veggies, etc) and I feel like I'm starving 3-4hrs later as I'm in bed. I cook almost every meal at home and don't really snack. If I do, it's fruit or something on the healthy side.

My job is physically demanding. I'm an online shopper at Walmart, but I walk at least 8 miles every shift, and I'm constantly moving, lifting, and pulling heavy items. I'm doing this full time in the summer and part time during my college semesters.

The other day, I worked a 1-10 shift and then a 10-7 the next day. I got home at 10 and had a healthy dinner. At 2am, I'm starving, and have a granola bar. I go back to bed.

I have 2 bagels with peanut butter and a smoothie (cherry & banana with milk and protein powder) for breakfast. By the time I took my lunch break at 2pm, I was starving, and ate everything in my lunchbox (leftover spaghetti, apple, banana, and 2 granola bars) and STILL had to go buy a sandwich before I wasn't hungry.

When i left at 7pm, I was hungry again, as if I hadn't eaten all day. Thankfully my boyfriend was cutting vegetables for dinner. We had the breakfast bake I mentioned above. I eat dinner, and am hungry a few hours later as if I'm a starving Victorian child.

Yesterday, on my day off, I put 2 and 2 together. If you walked 8 miles every day, you'd be hungry, too. Duh. I feel so dumb.

Today I had a large breakfast but was STILL hungry an hour before my lunch break. I packed a bigger lunch. STILL HUNGRY. Bought a sandwich. I hope I'm not hungry anymore.

I need more high-protein lunch ideas. Time to go scavenging the internet for recipes, I guess.

Tldr: I didn't think that my job was the reason I was hungry. I forget I walk 8-9 miles 5x a week. I'm burning more calories than I'm eating and, as a result, am starving. I'm now searching for extremely high protein lunch ideas.

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