Do you eat until your full or just until your not hungry?

THere's totally a difference. I try to eat just until I'm no longer hungry...but sometimes I still feel that need to feel full (which I'm working on...)

I have always been a "big eater" so it's been a little different for me... I am starting to recognize that I feel better if I eat until I'm not hungry. If I eat until full, I am uncomfortable now.

you have lost 35 pounds! that is awesome! whatever you are doing is working, so who cares what he thinks! lol just smile and keep on doing what you are doing!!

Definitely eat only until you are not hungry anymore. This can be tricky because it takes sometimes 10 minutes for a hormone to be released by your hypothalamus gland to signal that you are done. That is why it is important to eat slowly, which is difficult for me sometimes because of working as a paramedic, my eating gets interrupted quite frequently. It is surprising sometimes when you do eat slow and get interrupted for a few minutes and when you think about it, you aren't really that hungry anymore...at least in my case.


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I'm trying to stop once I'm not hungry, and not only when I'm fit to bursting like I used to.

Read somewhere that's it's the healthiest to just stop when you're at about 70% full. Realised that the most important thing is to eat slowly, so that the food has time to get down and you'll feel it, rather than eat fast and not be able to tell when you're at 70% until much later, which may be too late hahaa..speaking of which, think I ate too fast for dinner..feeling a tad too full now..

Honestly, it depends on what I'm eating.

If you eat a little slower and add more fiber to your meal it may help make these one in the same. There is some delay in the time your brain knows you ‘re full and when you actually are. I read once eating slower or taking smaller bites help you account for that time. So you will feel full when you are actually full and not stuffed. That way not being hungry and anymore and being full are likely to become one in the same. Not really an answer to your question sorry, but a suggestion to “kill two birds with one stone” if you may.

I eat how many calories I've allotted myself for the meal (portion accordingly), then I stop whether I'm full and/or hungry or not. It's harder when I go out to eat with my wife, though, because I have no control over the portion (and frequently, very little control over the calories other than trying to pick something less fattening than everything else). So we have cut way back on dining out and only go once or twice a month now. In those cases, I just more or less throw caution to the wind and eat whatever I want...which, now that I've gotten my eating habits in line, isnt anywhere NEAR as much as it was before. Gone are the days of 2 or 3 appetizers, an entree, drinks, dessert and a glass of Wares to wash it down!