Not feeling full after you eat

OdesAngel wrote: »

Eating til I'm full and eating til I'm not hungry are two different feelings for me. It's taken me a while to sort that out.

This is the most important thing I've learned about losing weight. I've lost 60 pounds in 6 months without being hungry, but if I ate till my belly is full (loosen my belt and take a nap full), of put it right back on. Losing weight is mostly about learning the difference between the two.

Your stomach needs time to shrink. I always feel deprived when I start something new, it gets easier. Hang in there... they have some new fun flavors of Extra gum to help with cravings!

I have what I call "hungry days" where it seems like no matter what I eat, I'm still hungry. Monday was like that for me. I make sure to have lots of healthy snacks at work so I don't find myself at the vending machine! It does get easier... hang in there!

This is a really interesting topic. If you're the type of person that really doesn't like to have hunger pangs (I don't like them either!), you might be better doing the frequent small meals, and preemptively eating before your body has a chance to be hungry. I know that I have to kick in some serious willpower and talk myself down from a heavy treat when I have even the smallest growl in my stomach.
I think it can also be tough (for those of us who like not to be hungry) to discriminate between what satisfied but not stuffed feels like, versus "I ate enough to stave off the hunger but I'm going to be hungry again in about an hour". If I'm not full enough to feel physically that my stomach is full, I have trouble perceiving the gradations between that and empty.

The first few days after I started I felt hungry all the time. I think I gradually got use to the "new" way of eating and I don't have that issue as much any more. Now it's days were I'm not hungry at all and then days when I wake up hungry and feel hungry all day. That doesn't happen often though. I found if I slowed down when I was eating I usually felt fuller faster.

I used to be hungry all the time, I still am sometimes. I think uncomfortable was a more appropriate word though. I have learned to eat proper portion and be satisfied with it. Like others said, becoming overweight happened because I thought I could eat AS MUCH food as I wanted, when actually I can eat AS MUCH variety as I want just not in exaggerated quantity. I assume that I am eating fewer calories then I will be able to once I hit maintenance too, so it will be nice then to have a little more room to play with. My TDEE will be around 1700cals for 130lbs I assume, as now it is 1860cals for 160lbs. Anyway, just throwing numbers around. For now, I focus on maintaining my deficit (I eat at 1200cals to maintain a deficit of about 600cals/day, or more if I workout that day), and eating a balanced diet (eating mostly nutritious food, and including treats IIFYM) so I can lose fat and maintain as much lean mass as I can... so that I look as good as I can when I hit my goal weight. And also to have the energy to go through my workouts

[TL:DR] We have to learn to experience hunger as we know it... to understand that it isn't really hunger. I eat enough so that my body can function properly (actually, great!) but it will be uncomfortable if I am maintaining a deficit of 600-800cals daily.

I do agree with others that dehydration can exacerbates hunger. Green tea promotes satiety and fat burning as well. I love green tea, it's all around good for a lot of things. So drinking a lot of water and changing it up with different teas is a great advice. Also learning to eat whatever diet that helps you meet your goal and that you can enjoy and maintain is what is most important.

Good luck

Dakota3121 wrote: »

It's only been 48 hours. Granted. But almost every time I eat, I still feel hungry afterwards. I have been forcing myself to drink water and wait 20 minutes - so far so good (minus the frequent bathroom trips) Just wondering if this happened to anyone else and is this going to last forever. I HATE the feeling of feeling hungry.

Hi
for me it is still like that. And exercising makes me even hungrier. There are a few dishes that make me feel stuffed for around 400 cal, like high fat, high protein pancakes* but not many, unfortunately. Just ate a bowl of greek yogurt after my main meal of the day (lunch) because I did not feel full. Sigh.
I try to distract myself, drink lots of tea, or I will skip one meal entirely so I can eat a lot for my main meal. I eat 1500 cal a day, eating back half of my exercise calories, and it is and remains a battle!

Edited to add: I sometimes get into the habit of "celebrating" my hunger. NOT eating disorder-like, but feeling the hunger and knowing that this is when I lose weight. When I eat till I am not hungry any more, I do not lose weight. To me, the "I never went hungry and lost xxx lbs" is a myth, it simply it not true for me.


* 2 eggs, protein powder, 15g almond flour, 1 tablespoon, physillum husk; I add 0.5 tea spoon peanut butter and some homemade rhubarb sauce.

Today feels like this for me. I am keeping busy by reading all these posts

This has been really helpful to read today, as I've spent the weekend ready to gnaw off my own arm for sustenance! Naturally I'm a carb fiend, so it's tough making the adjustment from loads of fruit every day to a bit of fruit with some protein to keep me going -- otherwise I get the shakes and can't manage exercise at all.