Do carbs make you hungrier?

carolinebond0206
carolinebond0206 Posts: 9 Member
edited November 14 in Health and Weight Loss
I try to eat at the very most 115 g carbs a day and my calorie goal is 1400 a day. Today I went to a luncheon and ate 128 g of carbs at that one meal. I have been doing low carb for a month and had no problem keeping myself near and below 1400 calories. Today, after that meal, it seemed like a hunger switch was turned on. I have been hungry, thinking about food, and eating all day. I have eaten 3,200 calories TODAY and STILL feel hungry. That's more than double the amount I've eaten each day in the last month. Do you think the carb-loading could have caused it?
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  • azulvioleta6
    azulvioleta6 Posts: 4,195 Member
    yes
  • maxit
    maxit Posts: 880 Member
    Truthfully it depends on the time of day~
  • carolinebond0206
    carolinebond0206 Posts: 9 Member
    what do you mean?
  • orlandodenise
    orlandodenise Posts: 54 Member
    Yep - with me it does big time ! I try and keep under 40 grams if I can per day and try for less
  • carolinebond0206
    carolinebond0206 Posts: 9 Member
    I eat an average of 70 per day
  • maxit
    maxit Posts: 880 Member
    edited March 2015
    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.
  • carolinebond0206
    carolinebond0206 Posts: 9 Member
    today I ate 350!!
  • JimFsfitnesspal
    JimFsfitnesspal Posts: 313 Member
    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.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    Carbs satisfy me. I got nothing to help, OP.
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  • JimFsfitnesspal
    JimFsfitnesspal Posts: 313 Member
    carolinebond0206 wrote: »
    today I ate 350!!

    We all have bad days. We just have to reset and carry on.
  • Geekymonkey99
    Geekymonkey99 Posts: 63 Member
    Personally, they make me feel full for a good part of the day. Plus they seem to fuel my workouts.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    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 :disappointed:
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    I balance my carbs with fat and protein. I think that's the secret for not having a crash with them. I find them very sating. If I had a meal that was all protein and carbs and didn't have some fat, I wouldn't be satisfied with that either.

    It's all about balance for me.
  • aromine20
    aromine20 Posts: 12
    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.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Only when I have PMS. Is it the case for you, by any chance?
  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
    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.
  • FaylinaMeir
    FaylinaMeir Posts: 661 Member
    carbs don't make you hungrier they just don't make you feel satisfied either. I spent a lot of time as a high carb vegan and you never really feel satiated, just grossly full. Some people might disagree with me but that's my experience.
    Protein and fat make you feel more full.
  • Boogage
    Boogage Posts: 739 Member
    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.
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    Carbs are staples for me. I thought the most important thing was the supposed blood sugar spike after eating carbs, but for me, really, any types or combinations of food could be satisfying. I just had to find them. But then again, I eat a ton of food...
  • monikker
    monikker Posts: 322 Member
    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.
  • runnrchic
    runnrchic Posts: 130 Member
    It depends on the carb. My weekly carb percentage is 55-60%, but I never go hungry. I eat mainly whole grains. It's the white flour and sugar carbs that tend not to keep you feeling full.
  • ForeverSunshine09
    ForeverSunshine09 Posts: 966 Member
    I personally get full on the bread I eat and it keeps me satisfied. Now Salad is a whole other story. I tried salad on and off for 4 weeks ans every time I ate one an hr later I wanted to eat all the food in my house. I felt like if I could eat my arm I probably would. I realized that a combo of carbs and protein seem to help with the hunger so I dont snack nearly as much.
  • blktngldhrt
    blktngldhrt Posts: 1,053 Member
    I feel like my stomach is a bottomless pit when I eat high a higher percentage of carbs.

    I'm currently at 5% carb; when I get around 15%, I could eat all day and not feel full. I have a medical condition, though. My hypoglycemia causes extreme hunger and carb cravings when my blood glucose drops too low. I feel like I need to eat all the foods.
  • ChaiTea2015
    ChaiTea2015 Posts: 15
    Whenever I get like that I start eating a lot of protein until I reach that "Satisfied" feeling.
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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    carolinebond0206 wrote: »
    I try to eat at the very most 115 g carbs a day and my calorie goal is 1400 a day. Today I went to a luncheon and ate 128 g of carbs at that one meal. I have been doing low carb for a month and had no problem keeping myself near and below 1400 calories. Today, after that meal, it seemed like a hunger switch was turned on. I have been hungry, thinking about food, and eating all day. I have eaten 3,200 calories TODAY and STILL feel hungry. That's more than double the amount I've eaten each day in the last month. Do you think the carb-loading could have caused it?

    They don't make me hungry and I regularly eat between 250-3590g carbs a day because ....delicious

    I think changes in carbs will dramatically and quickly reduce / increase water weight on scale though...by up to 10lbs ...like in a matter of hours
  • Leana088
    Leana088 Posts: 581 Member
    Its different for many people. Personally, the first things I cut down on in my diet was bread and pasta. (Not potatoes though. Which is weird.) I can eat as much as I want of those two and they just don't fill me up.

    But fill me up, and make me more hungry are 2 different things...
  • runnrchic
    runnrchic Posts: 130 Member
    carolinebond0206 wrote: »
    today I ate 350!!
    350 is not a bad day. I consistently eat 250-350 carbs daily and I'm at my goal weight and am starting to see an definition through workouts.
  • fit_mama30
    fit_mama30 Posts: 178 Member
    Geekymonkey99 wrote: »
    Personally, they make me feel full for a good part of the day. Plus they seem to fuel my workouts.

    Same here. Gotta have carbs...
  • tracedlines
    tracedlines Posts: 5 Member
    I strive for an 80-10-10 vegan lifestyle and I shoot for 500g carbs a day! I think the right carbs (fruit & roots) satiate me and leave me full.
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