Sick and Tired of feeling Hungry

Ok now I am going to say this and I might get slammed. I am coming from a place were until the past few years I never had a problem with my weight but most of my family has...including my hubby. My observation is this idea of feeling FULL instead of just not hungry. I have seen my mother only feeling satisfied after she was stuffed. I think people have to get use to feeling not hungry instead of full. Does that make sense. I know it may seem like I am splitting hairs but there is a difference.

IF you are eating really healthy food you will be more full because your body is getting the nutrition it needs and not just calories it does help.

Michelle

My observation is this idea of feeling FULL instead of just not hungry. I have seen my mother only feeling satisfied after she was stuffed. I think people have to get use to feeling not hungry instead of full. Does that make sense. I know it may seem like I am splitting hairs but there is a difference.

Agreed. You should also never really eat until you are full. Once you are full you've eaten too much. I forget but it's something like I heard at WW like it takes your body x minutes to realize it's satisfied and you normally eat past that to full because you don't give it time.

Take time when you eat. Put your fork down. Chew. go slow. You will feel full faster.

My observation is this idea of feeling FULL instead of just not hungry. I have seen my mother only feeling satisfied after she was stuffed. I think people have to get use to feeling not hungry instead of full. Does that make sense. I know it may seem like I am splitting hairs but there is a difference.

Agreed. You should also never really eat until you are full. Once you are full you've eaten too much. I forget but it's something like I heard at WW like it takes your body x minutes to realize it's satisfied and you normally eat past that to full because you don't give it time.

Take time when you eat. Put your fork down. Chew. go slow. You will feel full faster.

These posts are pretty spot on. The point is to not feel full, its training your mind to realize that you aren't hungry any more. The second poster is completely accurate in that you will typically eat faster than your mind can realize that you are no longer hungry. This leads to people eating in excess. The key is to exhibit portion control and wait a good length of time before you go back for seconds. Give your mind time to process the food you have consumed! Any diet change also requires a change in not only the thought processes in your mind but the adaptation of your body. If you go from consuming 3000 calories per day to consuming 1600 per day, no matter how much time you give yourself at the beginning you are always going to want to eat more. You have to push through this phase until your body adapts to eating 1600 calories. Then it becomes a mind game of working with your brain to realize you no longer need food after you've eaten reasonable portions.

Does that make sense? It starts out tough, it gets a bit easier. If it wasn't tough to begin with, everybody would be doing it!

It's hard to give you pointers when your food diary isn't open, so a few general pointers.

1. Get more protein, it will keep you satisfied longer.
2. Lots of fruits and veggies - fiber keeps you fuller, and they're good for you anyway
3. Stay well hydrated - our mind often mistakes thirst for hunger.

When I'm feeling hungry/snack-y and there's no real reason I should be, I know that it's boredom-induced so I'll have a cup of tea, especially iced tea in the summer time. If I am really looking for sweets I'll add a little sugar free syrup or a sweetened creamer to get that sweetness and keep it at minimal calories.

Oh and the obvious: make sure you're eating enough. You might just be hungry because you should be!

Lots of good advice here. Fiber, protein, and water are all important, and so is the mindset.
When I started dieting I didn't eat enough protein or fiber, and I was starving, but I got very close to my goal weight.
Afterward I fell of the bandwagon and then I started eating like crazy. Of course I gained all my weight back. And my appetite for "bad" foods like complex carbs and sugar increased 10-fold. By depriving myself of food, I became obsessed with it.

Now I stock some junk food in my house or at work so I feel like I can always have it, but (most of the time) I never actually eat it. That helps me feel "safe". And I try to find other things to distract myself so I don't think about food all the time. And of course I try to eat more protein and fiber.

I hope this helps you.

I agree with these posts too. I am on a 1500 calorie a day program when I was eating more like 3000. The first few days were hard, but if you start your day with a high protein breakfast, you will feel full longer and not be as hungry throughout the day.

My second bit of advice would be to get off sugar if that is an issue for you. Don't eat any of the "white" foods (rice, pasta, potatoes), they just leave you wanting more and really play mind games with me as far as my moods and hunger levels.

I don't necessarily view fat as a bad thing either. Everything in moderation, but having lots of protein, fiber, and foods with good fats in them will absolutely keep you full.

Water is key as well. A good 8 glasses a day!

I should have worded that differently. You could eat a large number of calories of apples and if you eat the same amount of calories in chips the chips will put on more weight. People generally do not get fat on a healthy diet no matter how many apples you eat. If you are going to go over your calories go over with fruits and veggies. There are few exceptions to the rule.

MIchelle

Not true at all. THe only reason people tend to not get fat eating a 'healthy' diet is becomes it takes a lot more VOLUME of food to reach the same calorie intake than eating unhealthily. If you eat 3000 (with a TDEE of 2500) calories of fruits and veggies you will gain the SAME amount as if you are 3000 calories of chocolate bars. Calories in vs calories out

I should have worded that differently. You could eat a large number of calories of apples and if you eat the same amount of calories in chips the chips will put on more weight. People generally do not get fat on a healthy diet no matter how many apples you eat. If you are going to go over your calories go over with fruits and veggies. There are few exceptions to the rule.

MIchelle

Not true at all. THe only reason people tend to not get fat eating a 'healthy' diet is becomes it takes a lot more VOLUME of food to reach the same calorie intake than eating unhealthily. If you eat 3000 (with a TDEE of 2500) calories of fruits and veggies you will gain the SAME amount as if you are 3000 calories of chocolate bars. Calories in vs calories out

Tell me someone you know how got fat eating healthy foods? Just healthy foods. It does not happen. It gives people an excuse not to eat healthy. 50 calories of chips and 50 calories of apples are NOT the same! Don't fool yourself. Your body utilizes apples better than chips. The calories are not the same.

Calorie is a calorie is a bit of wordplay. Yes a calorie is a unit of measurement just as an inch is a unit of measurement.

The difference comes into play when we look at where those calories are sourced from. Whether its a fat gram, protein gram, or carbohydrate. There are also numerous other factors that dictate how the body processes the source of said calories. So, while a calorie is a calorie because it is just a unit of energy, the bigger picture, the macronutrients are certainly not equal.

So when this age-old debate begins about healthy and unhealthy calories, most people use the above argument. They are correct but really, I've got to believe its just a view point. People talk about healthy and unhealthy calories, what I think they really mean is healthy and unhealthy fat, protein, and carbs. But, it snowballs into this big debate about healthy and unhealthy calories and how a calorie is a calorie, etc.

A calorie is a calorie.

400 calories from apples, or Twinkies, it's 400 calories.

Truth.

Just like 500 lbs. of feathers weighs exactly the same as 500 lbs. of bricks

I will say, however, that you will most likely end up feeling full after eating 4-5 large Granny Smith apples in order to get those 400 calories whereas you would likely not be anywhere near feeling satiated after eating the 2-1/2 Twinkies needed to get those 400 calories.

That is where the difference lies. It is in that fact that calorie for calorie you would need to consume vastly more volume in healthy food items to get the same calorie tally from a relatively modest amount of junk food.

A pound of sugar has the same amount of calories as a pound of celery? Now I have seen everything! :noway:

You can look at my diary for ideas, I eat healthy and feel satisfied when I am done eating. I'm certainly not hungry all the time since I eat 5-6 times a day it's like I am always eating.

I will be honest I'm a horrible eater X_x I do however enjoy salads by some unknown reason I'm done eating today but I'll try larger salad tomorrow. Pmteet you could be right this could just be a craving more than hunger pain. So I guess the question is how do I kill the craving to eat. I been keeping up with the water intake thus far yay but not nearly enough veggies because I do not like how they taste X_x I sound like a little kid.

You are probably eating too much sugar and junk food--both will work against any kind of satiety. You could try a lower carb program. If you keep your carbs between 50 to 100 grams per day (and if you exclude sugar and junk food, it is not hard to do) you will not be hungry and you will lose a lot of weight. You will need to up your intake of good fats and protein if you are going to lower your carbs--which help you to not be hungry. Send me a friend request and you could see what I eat---I am never hungry (and I only eat around 1400 calories most days). Good luck.

If they are over weight they are not eating healthy. I know vegans who eat an entire package of Oreos. That is NOT healthy. I am really not going to play your game. You know I am right. You WILL NOT get fat eating only HEALTHY unadulterated fruits and veggies. Yes there are apples in apple pies. But THEY are not healthy. Seriously? No wonder there are so many overweight people in the world if the really believe that calories from chips and calories from apples are the same. If you watch thin people. Not naturally thn but people who just eat what a healthy amount of food is you will see they eat more fruits and veggies than meat. That they do not eat junk, even vegan junk.

Um, seriously? What is magically in"healthy" food that somehow makes their calories not count? This line of thinking IS why people are overweight.

I challenge you to eat 3,000 calories a day of fruits, veggies and lean proteins for a week and see what happens. Then go ahead and eat 1,400 of calories a day of oreos for a week.