Do carbs make you hungrier?

carolinebond0206

I try to eat at the very most 115 g carbs a day and my calorie goal is 1400 a day. Today I went to a luncheon and ate 128 g of carbs at that one meal. I have been doing low carb for a month and had no problem keeping myself near and below 1400 calories. Today, after that meal, it seemed like a hunger switch was turned on. I have been hungry, thinking about food, and eating all day. I have eaten 3,200 calories TODAY and STILL feel hungry. That's more than double the amount I've eaten each day in the last month. Do you think the carb-loading could have caused it?

azulvioleta6

yes

maxit

Truthfully it depends on the time of day~

carolinebond0206

what do you mean?

orlandodenise

Yep - with me it does big time ! I try and keep under 40 grams if I can per day and try for less

carolinebond0206

I eat an average of 70 per day

maxit

carolinebond0206 wrote: »

what do you mean?

If you are asking me this question, for me if i eat a lot of easily-digesting carbs (like things made out of white flour, things like cookies, to name a few) in the middle of the day or early afternoon, i crave them for the rest of the day and I also want to take a nap. Carbs in vegetables or fruit don't seem to have that effect on me. I have no idea why the difference. I avoid bread, pasta and cookies in the middle of the day for this reason.

carolinebond0206

today I ate 350!!

JimFsfitnesspal

It has happened to me several times.

I try to keep my carbs around 100g and my hard limit is less than 130. If you keep carbs less than 130 (consistently) then you gain the benefits of mild keto.

zyxst

Carbs satisfy me. I got nothing to help, OP.

JimFsfitnesspal

carolinebond0206 wrote: »

today I ate 350!!

We all have bad days. We just have to reset and carry on.

Geekymonkey99

Personally, they make me feel full for a good part of the day. Plus they seem to fuel my workouts.

Christine_72

Yes! If I eat a carb heavy meal I'm usually hungry an hour later and can not turn of that eat eat eat switch! Then I obviously go way over my calories.
It happens every time I have a big bowl of sultana bran which I absolutely love, but it's so not worth it

PeachyCarol

I balance my carbs with fat and protein. I think that's the secret for not having a crash with them. I find them very sating. If I had a meal that was all protein and carbs and didn't have some fat, I wouldn't be satisfied with that either.

It's all about balance for me.

aromine20

They can make you hungrier! You will have a spike in blood sugar, spiking insulin levels. Your blood sugar will suddenly drop off, leaving your insulin levels high which makes your body feel hungry so that you can get those blood sugar levels back up.

Francl27

Only when I have PMS. Is it the case for you, by any chance?

Alyssa_Is_LosingIt

It really depends, for me. If I have nothing but carbs in the morning, like cereal, I get hungry again really fast or crash a couple of hours after. But then other times of the day they don't do that.

Still, though, it doesn't stop me from sometimes enjoying a lovely bowl of Captain Crunch in the morning.

FaylinaMeir

carbs don't make you hungrier they just don't make you feel satisfied either. I spent a lot of time as a high carb vegan and you never really feel satiated, just grossly full. Some people might disagree with me but that's my experience.
Protein and fat make you feel more full.

Boogage

Did you have a lot of fat with your carbs?

Feeding laboratory rats with either high-fat and high-sugar diets did little to change their daily habits or health but supply them with chocolate, biscuits and cheesecake (a near 50-50 fat and sugar split) and behaviour changed radically.

They ignored other foods for the cheesecake, going back to it regularly rather than gorging, and put on weight. Their self-regulation system, that naturally stopped them eating too much fat or sugar, effectively switched off.

“It became their main source of calories,” Kenny tells Horizon. “They gained massive amounts of weight, became sedentary, slept a lot and did not move around.”

He found that the allure of processed food was overriding the body’s natural hormones that regulate intake by alerting the brain that the body has enough calories. It is the same faculty that is impaired in drug addicts whose On-Off mechanisms are degraded by the release of pleasure hormones in the brain’s hedonic system, he says.

That text is info from a televised experiment where twin doctors ate either low carb (low sugar) or low fat.

Quite an interesting programme that put me off seriously limiting carbs as the low carber did lose more weight but nearly half of it was muscle even though he was stimulating his muscles with the same exercises his brother was doing.

MelodyandBarbells

Carbs are staples for me. I thought the most important thing was the supposed blood sugar spike after eating carbs, but for me, really, any types or combinations of food could be satisfying. I just had to find them. But then again, I eat a ton of food...

monikker

aromine20 wrote: »

They can make you hungrier! You will have a spike in blood sugar, spiking insulin levels. Your blood sugar will suddenly drop off, leaving your insulin levels high which makes your body feel hungry so that you can get those blood sugar levels back up.

I've noticed myself being hungry and craving more carbs on days I've had donuts or sweets or generally consuming multiple carb-heavy foods since going to a <100 g carbs per day diet. I don't know what all it has to do with insulin/blood sugar as quoted above but I'm suspicious that it does. I seem to not crave the carbs, especially simple sugars, when I eat less of them.

runnrchic

It depends on the carb. My weekly carb percentage is 55-60%, but I never go hungry. I eat mainly whole grains. It's the white flour and sugar carbs that tend not to keep you feeling full.

ForeverSunshine09

I personally get full on the bread I eat and it keeps me satisfied. Now Salad is a whole other story. I tried salad on and off for 4 weeks ans every time I ate one an hr later I wanted to eat all the food in my house. I felt like if I could eat my arm I probably would. I realized that a combo of carbs and protein seem to help with the hunger so I dont snack nearly as much.

blktngldhrt

I feel like my stomach is a bottomless pit when I eat high a higher percentage of carbs.

I'm currently at 5% carb; when I get around 15%, I could eat all day and not feel full. I have a medical condition, though. My hypoglycemia causes extreme hunger and carb cravings when my blood glucose drops too low. I feel like I need to eat all the foods.

ChaiTea2015

Whenever I get like that I start eating a lot of protein until I reach that "Satisfied" feeling.

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Sued0nim

carolinebond0206 wrote: »

I try to eat at the very most 115 g carbs a day and my calorie goal is 1400 a day. Today I went to a luncheon and ate 128 g of carbs at that one meal. I have been doing low carb for a month and had no problem keeping myself near and below 1400 calories. Today, after that meal, it seemed like a hunger switch was turned on. I have been hungry, thinking about food, and eating all day. I have eaten 3,200 calories TODAY and STILL feel hungry. That's more than double the amount I've eaten each day in the last month. Do you think the carb-loading could have caused it?

They don't make me hungry and I regularly eat between 250-3590g carbs a day because ....delicious

I think changes in carbs will dramatically and quickly reduce / increase water weight on scale though...by up to 10lbs ...like in a matter of hours

Leana088

Its different for many people. Personally, the first things I cut down on in my diet was bread and pasta. (Not potatoes though. Which is weird.) I can eat as much as I want of those two and they just don't fill me up.

But fill me up, and make me more hungry are 2 different things...

runnrchic

carolinebond0206 wrote: »

today I ate 350!!

350 is not a bad day. I consistently eat 250-350 carbs daily and I'm at my goal weight and am starting to see an definition through workouts.

fit_mama30

Geekymonkey99 wrote: »

Personally, they make me feel full for a good part of the day. Plus they seem to fuel my workouts.

Same here. Gotta have carbs...

tracedlines

I strive for an 80-10-10 vegan lifestyle and I shoot for 500g carbs a day! I think the right carbs (fruit & roots) satiate me and leave me full.