Does eating bread make anyone else hungrier?
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Most breads do. I've recently discovered Arnold's sandwich thins 100% whole wheat with flax and fiber. 1 serving is 100 calories and when I make a sandwich for lunch it keeps me full for hours. I also use half a thin for my breakfast some days. I use 1 serving of egg white substitutes (25 calories), a slice of light swiss cheese (50 calories) and a half sandwich thin (50 calories.) For 125 calories I'm full from 6am before I leave for work until about 1pm when I finally get my lunch break.
I love those thin things and omg that little sandwich thing you just described sounds delicious. I'm headed to the store today to grab that stuff!!!0 -
If I eat plain chicken, that makes me hungrier. Not sure why, other proteins don't do that to me.
I don't have that problem with bread, though; I find it very filling, especially with a thin scrape of butter (or butterlike substitute). A good thing, because I'm sure that toast is the food of the gods.0 -
You guys can debate the science all you want, but here is what happened to me the last time I added bread back into my diet:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/MaraDiaz?date=2012-12-12
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/MaraDiaz?date=2012-12-13
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/MaraDiaz?date=2012-12-15
I was ready to devour anything and everything in a ten mile radius! Now compare that to the rest of my diary.0 -
Personally, several forms of carbohydrates cause me to be hungry a short while later. I don't avoid them for this reason but I'm aware of how I react. I'm not suggesting this is the case with everyone, either. I can eat 500 calories of eggs (for example) at every meal and have no feelings of hunger between meals. If I were to eat 1000 calories of varied sources of carbohydrates and I'd be hungry an hour after I ate them.0
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Personally, several forms of carbohydrates cause me to be hungry a short while later. I don't avoid them for this reason but I'm aware of how I react. I'm not suggesting this is the case with everyone, either. I can eat 500 calories of eggs (for example) at every meal and have no feelings of hunger between meals. If I were to eat 1000 calories of varied sources of carbohydrates and I'd be hungry an hour after I ate them.
Funny you mention eggs. I wonder if they have some appetite suppressing quality, because I am much less likely to have any evening hunger if I eat eggs rather than steak or ground beef. Of course it might just be that I am very sick of eggs!0 -
Personally, several forms of carbohydrates cause me to be hungry a short while later. I don't avoid them for this reason but I'm aware of how I react. I'm not suggesting this is the case with everyone, either. I can eat 500 calories of eggs (for example) at every meal and have no feelings of hunger between meals. If I were to eat 1000 calories of varied sources of carbohydrates and I'd be hungry an hour after I ate them.
Blood glucose levels/insulin release, like I say.0 -
heavily processed carbs in general do this to me. I'm fine with whole grains, fruit, and veg though.0
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heavily processed carbs in general do this to me. I'm fine with whole grains, fruit, and veg though.
Yep, fibre on them means the blood glucose rise and thus drop much more gradual.0 -
This thread is over a year old. Why start up again?0
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I made an account so I could talk about this. I experienced the same hungry feeling (between meals) while re-introducing bread into my diet. People say carbs will have this effect, but my understanding is that rice would have this same effect… which it does not for me.
The only thing I can think of, is that maybe we could be mistaking stomach itritation/inflamation with hunger??0 -
Bread for me is a trigger food. I avoid it purposefully or I will start to binge. Starts with bread and then anything I can get me hands on. So yes, makes me hungry.
Switched to the Ole Xtreme Wellness Wraps and does not have the same effect.1 -
Yep, anything with carbs increases my cravings for more carbs.
Bread, pasta, and we won't even whisper the word pancakes or donuts. For some reason rice doesn't do it for me though because that's a 'take it or leave it' food for me. 0 -
cmriverside wrote: »This thread is over a year old. Why start up again?
Haha why not? And here we are 9 years later. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Right?
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Bread definitely is a trigger food for me and makes me want more more more. I try to avoid it as much as I can for that reason but I get weak sometimes, lol.0
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cmriverside wrote: »This thread is over a year old. Why start up again?
Haha why not? And here we are 9 years later. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Right?
apparently. :-|
Bread/wheat is one of those things that cause the moremoremore thing with some people but not others, like sugar and alcohol. I know I will over-eat breads, cereals, crackers and other wheat-based things in a compulsive way. Same with sugary things (with or without the fat, before someone jumps on this.) Yes, I'll eat a whole bag of hard candies (no fat! How can this be true!?) Yes, I'll eat sugar from the bowl. In the past I would grab a bowl of brown sugar and eat over a half cup of it at a time. I've gotten better but it's taken years, more than a decade.
..and this is why I quit drinking alcohol too. That compulsion that happens. Some people deny it's even a thing, and that's because they don't experience it. Just read any of the many "addiction" threads. I believe it's part physical and part psychological, but it's definitely real.2 -
No. Bread keeps me full for quite a while compared to fatty foods and protein. And so does rice, pasta, potatoes, etc. Besides, bread is love.1
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No - eating bread does not make me hungrier.
I find it quite filling for the calories it has.
However I do find wholemeal bread fills me up better than white bread - presumably because of the increased fibre.0 -
Alas, I didn't bake any bread this fall/winter as regular bread just isn't filling at all for me. I could easily demolish half a standard loaf of freshly baked bread (and butter) in a very short time. I do have a better experience with bread that was sprouted, presumably due to the higher fiber or otherwise slower digesting.
I don't find pasta especially filling either - rice and potatoes are far more satiating to me.
I made some potato leek ham soup a few times this year which I find super filling and have been eating for breakfast.
(No matter how much I add to oatmeal, I can't make it enjoyable for a reasonable amount of calories.)2 -
When I first started using MFP, I immediately dropped bread because I noticed how many calories are in it. Now, about 6 months later, I found a type of bread with only 50 cals per slice, Nature's Own. I've been eating it, and because I've gone so long without it, I'm able to clearly see how my body reacts to it. Quite frankly, I feel it makes me hungrier.
Has anyone else experienced this? I feel as if you won't really know unless you go without it for a long time and start eating it again, otherwise you won't have a basis for comparison.
My experience is that white bread is like sugar, so it gets used up fast and I get a sugar low.
But Vogels bread not so. I keep a loaf in the freezer and whenever I really can't get by without something, I grab a couple of slices, and have vogels toast with butter and peanut butter.
The fat slows the carb absorption down, as does the high fibre, so my blood sugar curve is lower (but longer) and it just hits the spot.
When it comes to fresh baked bread and lashings of butter... I just don't even let myself go there, even in my head. Just parking it for now, till I'm thinner and my insulin resistance goes down.
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Nope...I eat sandwiches a few times per week for lunch...no issue. I use Dave's Killer 21 grain and seed. Every Saturday I make a breakfast sandwich using a toasted English muffin, fried egg (broken yolk), ham, and swiss cheese. Pretty regularly have sourdough with various soups and stews for mopping. I never just eat bread on it's own though...it would never occur to me to just grab a slice of bread and eat it.0
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No, but I don't like bread all that much in the first place, unless it's something really special (according to my tastes). That may be relevant?
I do like soft pretzels from a local artisan bakery, and also their focaccia . . . if I have some, I sometimes want more, but - trust me on interpreting my own feelings - it's not hunger operating, it's hedonism.
I don't disbelieve others who say "eating X provokes hunger" for them, for any value of X. Those kinds of things tend to be pretty individualized, though of course there are some patterns that are more statistically common than others. 🤷♀️1 -
Bread ❤
Marks and Spencers bakery does this amazing cheddar and red lecister crusty cob loaf and I could and I have eaten the whole thing in one sitting 😳
Within an hour I could eat again!
So yes bread makes me more hungry- any carbs do to be honest regardless of their GI etc ..1 -
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