What do you do if you have food restrictions?

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ds6099
ds6099 Posts: 98 Member
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And it makes it so hard for me to get full? Can anyone relate?

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  • Darton2010
    Darton2010 Posts: 137 Member
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    Food restrictions? Everyone has food restrictions, if you plan to lose weight get used to being hungry, the two go hand in hand, it's really tough sometimes. Make yourself a program, cut out totally, foods that you over eat with and just focus on sticking to your program. Keep your mind busy and off food, that helps
  • Bonny132
    Bonny132 Posts: 3,617 Member
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    Is your food restrictions chosen or medical? And what are they?
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
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    Are we talking allergies or Celiac or PCOS or what here?

    If it's self-imposed restrictions, or if you're following a fad diet, I'd toss them out. Eat what you want in order to stay within your deficit.
  • ds6099
    ds6099 Posts: 98 Member
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    barbecuesauce wrote: »
    Are we talking allergies or Celiac or PCOS or what here?

    If it's self-imposed restrictions, or if you're following a fad diet, I'd toss them out. Eat what you want in order to stay within your deficit.

    Lol- it's celiac plus pcos plus some other allergies!
  • JessicaB523
    JessicaB523 Posts: 70 Member
    edited August 2015
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    I have celiac. I can get quite full on meat and veggies (other grains tend to upset my IBS, so I also stay away from rice, corn, etc). I am also slightly lactose-intolerant. I'll sometimes eat cheese or put some cream in my coffee if I am really wanting some, but I always pay for it later. And I always manage to be satiated after a meal.

    Veggie soup is a great filler.
  • jvs125
    jvs125 Posts: 223 Member
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    I feel full on higher protein meals.
  • Ang108
    Ang108 Posts: 1,711 Member
    edited August 2015
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    ds6099 wrote: »
    And it makes it so hard for me to get full? Can anyone relate?

    I have food restrictions, but cannot relate, because getting full has to do with the calorie density and the volume of food and not a specific type as far as healthy people ar concerned. Even for people with medical restrictions it is usually not difficult to get full, unless they are picky eaters.
    I have food restrictions due to active Lupus and since I had two heart attacks in April this year I now take Coumadin ( Warfarin ) and am now not allowed to eat any leafy green vegetables, because the vitamin K in them keeps the medicine from being absorbed.
    I work around it and now eat salads with tomatoes, cucumbers, all kind of bell peppers, cabbage and other non-leafy vegetables without any problems at all.
    I can't ( or better shouldn't ) eat refined things like anything made from white flour because of the increased systemic inflammation that comes with Lupus ; so I don't and eat corn tortillas, beans, lentils and other legumes/pulses. There are always other options and for someone willing to change they are easy to find. Finding out what can be ingested without problems and getting full is usually not a problem at all.

  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
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    I suggest you get creative. What might help is to make up a chart of the foods you can eat. Make a column for each macro. Then you can play around by mixing and matching.

    With celiac the challenge is finding wheat flour replacements. I bake for my celiac friend on occasion and I've experimented with teff and tigernut flours as well as home made protein bars using puffed millet.

    In your position I would be fighting boredom.

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