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Does anyone still miss the full feeling

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    I grew up with eating to overfull as the norm. I never liked it, but my brain still thinks that's the right way for me to eat. I never reflected on the meanings of "full" and "enough" :s Just a few days ago, I realised that when I eat, I just have to "top up" to tide me over until next meal, not "fill up" completely as if I'm never going to eat again.

    Sometimes I feel uneasy when I leave the table and still have room for more - parts of my brain think that is heresy and give me this reaction:

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  • allbandrelatednamesaretaken
    allbandrelatednamesaretaken Posts: 29 Member
    the only thing i miss is macaroni.

    I'll find a recipe sometime.
  • farfromthetree
    farfromthetree Posts: 982 Member
    Yes. On the rare occasion I let myself get really full, I remember how awful it feels!
  • Onmyway21
    Onmyway21 Posts: 9 Member
    I find now that I only seem to need that full feeling at night. Not sure what that's about except I know that I feel a little sad at the end of the day when eating is done. Usually I can counteract that by getting busy with something else, but I'm still practicing how to get myself to stop before I hit that "full" point. Always a work in progress!
  • Gamliela
    Gamliela Posts: 2,468 Member
    jontucc wrote: »
    I miss the full feeling. I have to mentally stop myself from eating more otherwise I go way over my calorie limit.

    This.

  • srecupid
    srecupid Posts: 660 Member
    You mean the slightly nauseated feeling? Not at all. That was one of the main reasons I decided to lose weight.
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    No, I'm usually full with all of my meals, even in a deficit. It's all about balancing your foods and making them work for you.
  • Whitezombiegirl
    Whitezombiegirl Posts: 1,042 Member
    Nope. But then I've always had a tiny appetite and also food has never interested me- I'd rather be doing something else other than eating.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »
    CooCooPuff wrote: »
    jacklifts wrote: »
    CooCooPuff wrote: »
    I stopped having the feeling full after a while.
    All you can eats in particular- the only thing that made me stop eating was feeling guilty over wanting to eat when the rest of my family, including two males with fairly active jobs, were stuffed.

    I read this as:

    "The only thing that made me stop eating was feeling guilty over wanting to eat the rest of my family, including two males..."

    LOL!
    New year's resolution: eat people ;)

    Just be ethical about it. Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.

    <3<3<3
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »
    Nowadays, being "full" makes me feel like barfing and passing out.

    Come to think of it, it's always made me feel that way. I just didn't realize it wasn't normal.

    Pretty much this.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    i hate feeling full...it just makes me tired and lethargic.
  • enterdanger
    enterdanger Posts: 2,447 Member
    cloudi2 wrote: »
    jontucc wrote: »
    I miss the full feeling. I have to mentally stop myself from eating more otherwise I go way over my calorie limit.

    This.

    This for me too. I'm like a big dumb animal. If there is food left, I want to eat it until I feel sick. It's like I have no off switch.
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    no, because now when i eat, i'm actually full. before i used to be stuffed.
  • gramarye
    gramarye Posts: 586 Member
    Sometimes. I have a problem with eating very quickly, and at times where I'm allowing myself the indulgence, I'll find that the feeling I associate with "full" becomes "did I swallow a cannonball?" after about ten minutes or so. But there are times where I want to keep eating and miss the abandon of doing so without having strong feelings about the consequence.
  • dkingdom1
    dkingdom1 Posts: 60 Member
    The stuffed feeling? Frankly, I don't miss it because it made me feel even more like crap. But what I do miss is the mindlessly stuffing oreos and m and m's and large bowls of macaroni and cheese in my mouth without giving a care everyday because there was a comfort in doing so. But then logging properly (for the past week), knowing what a proper portion looks like, and the fact that I've been eating waaaay less calories in comparison to when I don't care at all trumps the "I miss it feeling".
  • Clobern80
    Clobern80 Posts: 714 Member
    I loathe when I stuff myself to the gills. My problem is that I hate the feeling of hunger. Even though hunger is okay, I hate when I feel it. Which is why I always tended to stuff myself sick.
  • NikiChicken
    NikiChicken Posts: 576 Member
    Nope, because now that I am so long into this (almost 4 years), I *do* feel full. It just takes much less food to get me there. In the beginning, I didn't ever feel full, but now that I am used to a much smaller serving of food, I absolutely get that full feeling. Stick with it long enough and your body *will* adjust and you'll get that feeling back.
  • horselovinggal872
    horselovinggal872 Posts: 6 Member
    All. The. Time. After two months of losing weight I still haven't gotten used to never feeling completely full or satisfied. I'm always hungry it seems. Lol
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