Feeling full

tobeftmom

I've always had to have the feeling of being full. I do good with my food intake all day until after dinner, and ruin my diet. Has anyone felt like this and how do you overcome the need to feel full?

avt85

I'm on the same boat.
I combat this by having low calorie foods that expands in your stomach to give you that feeling and also I try to eat alot slower during dinner time to give the body time to feel fuller.

Food that works for me are:
- low calorie jelly
- oatmeal
- boiled eggs
- nutrigrain/Kellogg's bars (for those sweet cravings)

heybales

I've always had to have the feeling of being full. I do good with my food intake all day until after dinner, and ruin my diet. Has anyone felt like this and how do you overcome the need to feel full?

First try to separate mentally that there is a difference between feeling full, and feeding your body fully.

It may very well be that for your level of activity, you should be eating more anyway, so the deficit isn't at an unrealistic level that may allow your metabolism to slow down, discouragement to set in, binging to occur, yo-yo dieting to start.

Usually good sign of still feeling hungry - your body hasn't lowered the metabolism yet. When it does, you'll stop feeling hungry.

The other reason it can hit is low blood sugar after you eat at some point. Usually means you ate too many carbs for how your body is handling them and insulin spikes. Eat either more protein and fat with carbs at each meal, or eat them first before the carbs.