Hungry

I read an article on Cracked once about how if you were going to try to lose weight you had to be prepared to be hungry.  Then there are other articles about how you're never supposed to be hungry.  I don't know which one it is.

Somedays, staying under the calorie goal is simple.  I'm not hungry.  Other days it's like the hardest thing in the world to accomplish.  I guess that happens more on the weekend.  I don't know if that makes sense or not.

I worry that at 1200-1250 that I'm not getting enough, but my tracker does say that I'll be down the 10 pounds in 5 weeks if I continue to eat like I do.  So am I in starvation mode?  All the stupid things like WebMD say I need to cut down to 1200-1250.

Maybe this all stems from the fact that I'm not really losing as fast as I'd like.  I'm still losing, it's just slow.  I wonder if the exercise thing has anything to do with it - I'm not exercising at all and I said I would at least 30 minutes a day.  I think that just adds to my calorie deficit and if I stick to the plan I have now, I'll have trouble making 1200 a day much less 1300-1400.  So I'm at a loss.

Should it be low protein?  Low fat?  Low carb?  Moderate this, moderate that?  There's so much out there.  A woman lost 89 pounds in a year on a high fat moderate protein diet.  Maybe I need to reach for that.