Yo-yo weight - topic redux

jewol

Someone had talked about yo-yo weight gain/loss. When I saw it last night, I intended to post a reply today but I don't see the original post now. I've had problems with this, too. My conclusion is that I will have to get into the habit of never allowing myself to feel "full." If I feel full, most likely I have overeaten. If I can be ever mindful to "stay hungry" (not ravenously hungry, mind you, but never completely satiated), I can probably control my weight. That, at any rate, is now my operating hypothesis.

Still, old habits, as we say, are difficult to break.

Dave198lbs

sounds like a truly horrible way to go through life

fill up!

feel full!

good lord...going through life always feeling hungry on purpose?

MADNESS

sarahcuddle

I've heard it takes 20minutes for your stomach to feedback the full feeling to your brain, if you eat too fast you can be overfull before you even realise it. Leaving the table or finishing your meal before you are completely full therefore makes sense to me. I think my feedback mechanisms are shot though through years of overeating so I'll just have to continue to count calories and monitor my intake that way

Lrdoflamancha

sounds like a truly horrible way to go through life

fill up!

feel full!

good lord...going through life always feeling hungry on purpose?

MADNESS

True madness is deciding for other what works for them. I happen to completely agree with OP. When I stay a little hungry most all the time then and only then I will lose. I eat 6 times per day approx 350 cals per time. I am a type 2 diabetic so this is needed to control my blood sugar and it works. My A1c was 5.5 last month.

Firefox7275

Depends what you eat, feeling full on 250 cals of white bread is far less likely than feeling full on 250 calories of non starchy vegetables. Neither alone would satisfy you for any length of time you do need protein or fat, it's just an example. Genuine hunger is your body's way of telling you that it is not getting everything it needs, remember the body cannot tell the difference between a restrictive diet and a famine. People who consistently and deliberately undereat, ignoring hunger signals are often diagnosed as anorexic.

Brian_VA

Two thoughts on this ...

1 - exercising on a full stomach is pretty awful. If you get into fitness, soon that full feeling you have come to associate with being satisfied begins to be unpleasant. This mind set change is helpful in keeping your eating in check.

2 - eating a lot of sugar / starchy carbs definitely drives my sense of being hungry. Eating more fats and protein helps me feel satisfied quicker. It's a lot easier to say "no" to one more chunk of cheese than one more handful of popcorn!

Suewags

I once read a book where they suggested rating your hunger level on 1-10, with 1 being totally ravenous, could eat a horse, and 10 being so overstuffed you have to unbutton your pants just to breath and there's no way you're leaving the Lazy-Boy for at least three hours. The author suggested waiting to eat until you're about a 3 or 4 and eating until you are about a 7 possibly 8. The idea being that you shouldn't wait to eat until you're starving beyond belief, but also shouldn't eat when you're not needing it. And you should stop eating when you've had enough to fill the basic needs (comfortably full) and not eat until you're stuffed.

quirkytizzy

My rule of thumb: If I've waited until I'm nauseous, I've waited too long. Eat something NOW. Stop eating when I'm not hungry anymore. If I'm still hungry half an hour later, go back for a second helping that is one third the size of my original portion.

It's taking some getting used to - recognizing when I'm no longer hungry is sometimes still hard, a month later. But I am learning.

I don't go hungry. That's insane and will cause me to over eat.

Suewags, I LOVE that idea about the numbers thing. Got to remember that!