Do carbs make you hungrier?

Truthfully it depends on the time of day~

Yep - with me it does big time ! I try and keep under 40 grams if I can per day and try for less

carolinebond0206 wrote: »

what do you mean?

If you are asking me this question, for me if i eat a lot of easily-digesting carbs (like things made out of white flour, things like cookies, to name a few) in the middle of the day or early afternoon, i crave them for the rest of the day and I also want to take a nap. Carbs in vegetables or fruit don't seem to have that effect on me. I have no idea why the difference. I avoid bread, pasta and cookies in the middle of the day for this reason.

It has happened to me several times.

I try to keep my carbs around 100g and my hard limit is less than 130. If you keep carbs less than 130 (consistently) then you gain the benefits of mild keto.

carolinebond0206 wrote: »

today I ate 350!!

We all have bad days. We just have to reset and carry on.

Yes! If I eat a carb heavy meal I'm usually hungry an hour later and can not turn of that eat eat eat switch! Then I obviously go way over my calories.
It happens every time I have a big bowl of sultana bran which I absolutely love, but it's so not worth it

They can make you hungrier! You will have a spike in blood sugar, spiking insulin levels. Your blood sugar will suddenly drop off, leaving your insulin levels high which makes your body feel hungry so that you can get those blood sugar levels back up.

It really depends, for me. If I have nothing but carbs in the morning, like cereal, I get hungry again really fast or crash a couple of hours after. But then other times of the day they don't do that.

Still, though, it doesn't stop me from sometimes enjoying a lovely bowl of Captain Crunch in the morning.

Did you have a lot of fat with your carbs?

Feeding laboratory rats with either high-fat and high-sugar diets did little to change their daily habits or health but supply them with chocolate, biscuits and cheesecake (a near 50-50 fat and sugar split) and behaviour changed radically.

They ignored other foods for the cheesecake, going back to it regularly rather than gorging, and put on weight. Their self-regulation system, that naturally stopped them eating too much fat or sugar, effectively switched off.

“It became their main source of calories,” Kenny tells Horizon. “They gained massive amounts of weight, became sedentary, slept a lot and did not move around.”

He found that the allure of processed food was overriding the body’s natural hormones that regulate intake by alerting the brain that the body has enough calories. It is the same faculty that is impaired in drug addicts whose On-Off mechanisms are degraded by the release of pleasure hormones in the brain’s hedonic system, he says.

That text is info from a televised experiment where twin doctors ate either low carb (low sugar) or low fat.

Quite an interesting programme that put me off seriously limiting carbs as the low carber did lose more weight but nearly half of it was muscle even though he was stimulating his muscles with the same exercises his brother was doing.

aromine20 wrote: »

They can make you hungrier! You will have a spike in blood sugar, spiking insulin levels. Your blood sugar will suddenly drop off, leaving your insulin levels high which makes your body feel hungry so that you can get those blood sugar levels back up.

I've noticed myself being hungry and craving more carbs on days I've had donuts or sweets or generally consuming multiple carb-heavy foods since going to a <100 g carbs per day diet. I don't know what all it has to do with insulin/blood sugar as quoted above but I'm suspicious that it does. I seem to not crave the carbs, especially simple sugars, when I eat less of them.