What do you do when your stomach won't stop growling?
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Oddly enough, my stomach doesn't grumble when I'm hungry, it just grumbles (and squeaks and burbles) at random throughout the day.0
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trigden1991 wrote: »Firstly 500 calories isn't a meal, it's a snack. Secondly I would drink more water to keep you feeling full.
What??? That's incorrect. 500 calories could very well be a meal. If a person is on 1600 calories a day, for example, that can be split into three 500 calorie meals and one 100 calorie snack. Not everyone has a 3000+ calorie budget to work with in order to be able to define 500 calories as a mere snack.
It was a bit of a tongue in cheek comment.0 -
trigden1991 wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Firstly 500 calories isn't a meal, it's a snack. Secondly I would drink more water to keep you feeling full.
What??? That's incorrect. 500 calories could very well be a meal. If a person is on 1600 calories a day, for example, that can be split into three 500 calorie meals and one 100 calorie snack. Not everyone has a 3000+ calorie budget to work with in order to be able to define 500 calories as a mere snack.
It was a bit of a tongue in cheek comment.
Oh! XD Okay. My mistake!1 -
My advice would be to significantly increase the amount of volume in your diet. Because our hunger levels are dependent on the amount our stomach is stretched NOT the calorie density of our food.
Here's a good guide:
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Thanks everyone! I'll drink more tea, have more ginger (I love ginger anyway), and focus on less dense more voluminous foods and protein sources. It's always always been a problem, I can't explain just how much I could eat and never feel full growing up-- once in high school I ate 3 full entrees and an appetizer at Planet Hollywood, (so probably like 5k cals) then ate again just a few hours later, my friends couldn't even believe it; and it's so much harder as an adult when I'm not running around outside all the time. I'm smarter now so I KNOW when enough is enough, but it sucks feeling hungry, and even worse when people make nicknames or recurring jokes about how loud your stomach always is. BTW I'm aiming to lose about 60 more pounds and I'm on a 1400 calorie (vegetarian) diet, I eat about 2 heads of lettuce per week, usually topped with a veggie proitein, but need to incorporate more colorful veggies into my diet.0
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I'm having a lot of the same struggles. I also frequently feel hungry. What's been helping me is not waiting until I'm starving before I eat. If I feel hunger coming on then I eat. But with that said I usually wait ~20mins to make sure that I am actually hungry and not just wanting food because I love it. I eat ~200 calories every couple hours. This way I feel like I'm always eating and satisfying my hunger but keeping it at 1,500calories per day. If I don't eat when I am hungry I quickly feel dizzy and get a head ache. But that is only when I really push myself to go several hours without my little snacks. Also, I plan yummy suppers so that way I have something to look forward to. Such as if I don't eat this now then I can have this later mentality. When I'm really in a bind and trying to hold out on eating I chug water. One this helps fill up your stomach, two neutralizes some of the burning from the stomach acid when it is empty, and three it ups your water intake. Wow this is getting to be a lot longer than intended! Haha. Anyways yea I eat small amount of food regularly and allow myself ~600cal supper to look forward to. I think since I've ate super large amounts for soooo many years now my stomach is stretched. With time I am hoping that smaller portions will allow it to adjust back to a normal level and my cravings won't be as intense. Oh and I agree what the previous people have said about volume. I just ate a salad that was ~200calories and that will last me a solid hour then I might have a 1/2cup of cottage cheese in a bit to get me some protein since it takes longer for your body to break it down.
okay I'll end this now 1 -
Get your thyroid treated properly, for starters.1
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Get your thyroid treated properly, for starters.
This!! Plus stop spouting bad advise in other threads when you don't have a clue what you're doing.4 -
You're on the wrong diet. You should never be hungry on a diet. Eat more protein and fat and less carbs. See how you go
Eh, I may be reading this wrong, but it's okay to be hungry sometimes. As a severely obese individual I can't honestly remember the last time I was truly hungry. Easy access to food and low will power make it so that I never went multiple hours without eating. Being hungry is okay, starving is not.0 -
Mary_Anastasia wrote: »I'm ALWAYS hungry. I very rarely feel full, even if I've eaten over 3,000 calories (yes, it has been known to happen). My ex-bf even thought I might have some condition about it, but I always doubted it. Anyway, I finished my 500 calories lunch here at work and my stomach never stopped growling. It's 4 hours later and it's just getting louder
What do you do when you have eaten what you should but your stomach won't quit complaining?
I used to have that problem as well. Eat more protein, more fiber. It will help. Those types of foods will keep you full and prevent your stomach from growling!0 -
trigden1991 wrote: »GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Get your thyroid treated properly, for starters.
This!! Plus stop spouting bad advise in other threads when you don't have a clue what you're doing.
Thanks for your concern, muscles, but if you'd put your mind to more work when thoughtfully analyzing my posts, you'd realize that I avoid giving solid advice. I work in law-making, you learn to rarely say anything concretely.-1 -
Mary_Anastasia wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Get your thyroid treated properly, for starters.
This!! Plus stop spouting bad advise in other threads when you don't have a clue what you're doing.
Thanks for your concern, muscles, but if you'd put your mind to more work when thoughtfully analyzing my posts, you'd realize that I avoid giving solid advice. I work in law-making, you learn to rarely say anything concretely.
You work in "law-making" but avoid giving solid advice? I think you should find a different profession...6 -
I'm having a lot of the same struggles. I also frequently feel hungry. What's been helping me is not waiting until I'm starving before I eat. If I feel hunger coming on then I eat. But with that said I usually wait ~20mins to make sure that I am actually hungry and not just wanting food because I love it. I eat ~200 calories every couple hours. This way I feel like I'm always eating and satisfying my hunger but keeping it at 1,500calories per day. If I don't eat when I am hungry I quickly feel dizzy and get a head ache. But that is only when I really push myself to go several hours without my little snacks. Also, I plan yummy suppers so that way I have something to look forward to. Such as if I don't eat this now then I can have this later mentality. When I'm really in a bind and trying to hold out on eating I chug water. One this helps fill up your stomach, two neutralizes some of the burning from the stomach acid when it is empty, and three it ups your water intake. Wow this is getting to be a lot longer than intended! Haha. Anyways yea I eat small amount of food regularly and allow myself ~600cal supper to look forward to. I think since I've ate super large amounts for soooo many years now my stomach is stretched. With time I am hoping that smaller portions will allow it to adjust back to a normal level and my cravings won't be as intense. Oh and I agree what the previous people have said about volume. I just ate a salad that was ~200calories and that will last me a solid hour then I might have a 1/2cup of cottage cheese in a bit to get me some protein since it takes longer for your body to break it down. okay I'll end this now
Thanks, I also have been drinking a lot of water to fill up. I eat about 2 heads of lettuce per week, I really need to make up a snack that involves lettuce/few cals, so I can have those between meals because I often also get headaches and lethargic. My blood sugar spikes up when I don't eat, and it goes down when I do eat- luckily I don't have diabetes, but this imbalance probably is a factor, and snacks probably would help.0 -
Mary_Anastasia wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Get your thyroid treated properly, for starters.
This!! Plus stop spouting bad advise in other threads when you don't have a clue what you're doing.
Thanks for your concern, muscles, but if you'd put your mind to more work when thoughtfully analyzing my posts, you'd realize that I avoid giving solid advice. I work in law-making, you learn to rarely say anything concretely.
You work in "law-making" but avoid giving solid advice? I think you should find a different profession...
And why do you say that? It's the nature of the beast sometimes. Finite items such as "shall" and "will" are rarely used in wide-sweeping legislature unless policy-making analysts and/or heavy-weight brass "recommend" it. Concrete verbiage can get you into trouble with the well-read. And apparently, laissez-faire and/or non-binding commentary can among the ill-read.
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Have you mentioned this to your doctor? Since it has been going on a very long time I think I would certainly seek a professional medical opinion.
Other than that I would try adding more protein and fats to your diet. If you are eating enough calories for your activity level and getting plenty of fiber then I don't really think there is anything else you can fiddle with diet wise.0 -
The fact that your commentary is "non-binding" doesn't mean that its content has any basis in fact or should be taken seriously. It also doesn't exempt it from criticism. The well-read are free to comment on how ill-informed it is.6
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Have you mentioned this to your doctor? Since it has been going on a very long time I think I would certainly seek a professional medical opinion.
Other than that I would try adding more protein and fats to your diet. If you are eating enough calories for your activity level and getting plenty of fiber then I don't really think there is anything else you can fiddle with diet wise.
Yes, my nutritionist was baffled, and my last endocrinologist she said "your body just wants to be overweight, sometimes it's not our fault, your blueprint just insists on being overweight and eating a lot so you will always feel at a biological level that you need to be bigger and therefore be hungry" ......I fired that endo. My new endo suggested I see a GI specialist, he and my GP both point blank said I have so many backwards bio responses that they hesitate to test me for anything new without a wider network of specialists in their system.
I am trying to add more fats to my diet for the first time- I'll see if that makes a difference. I have very very low cholesterol, so I'm hoping it primarily helps with that TBH.-1 -
Mary_Anastasia wrote: »Concrete verbiage can get you into trouble with the well-read. And apparently, laissez-faire and/or non-binding commentary can among the ill-read.
What does this even mean?
Most statutes lately don't seem to be that well-drafted, IMO. And "concrete verbiage" (at least if that means what I think it means, but it lacks, well, concreteness) would seem to be desirable, to avoid unnecessary ambiguity or a law being interpreted in an unintended way.
What is laissez-faire language? I know about laissez-faire economics, obviously.
Not sure what non-binding commentary (which would seem to refer to things like legislative history) has to do with anything, let alone an internet discussion. Also, it's rarely the "ill-read" who make a thing about it, but lawyers and judges.
I'm a lawyer, so I am kind of interested in this topic.4 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Mary_Anastasia wrote: »Concrete verbiage can get you into trouble with the well-read. And apparently, laissez-faire and/or non-binding commentary can among the ill-read.
What does this even mean?
Most statutes lately don't seem to be that well-drafted, IMO. And "concrete verbiage" (at least if that means what I think it means, but it lacks, well, concreteness) would seem to be desirable, to avoid unnecessary ambiguity or a law being interpreted in an unintended way.
What is laissez-faire language? I know about laissez-faire economics, obviously.
Not sure what non-binding commentary (which would seem to refer to things like legislative history) has to do with anything, let alone an internet discussion. Also, it's rarely the "ill-read" who make a thing about it, but lawyers and judges.
I'm a lawyer, so I am kind of interested in this topic.
It means if you speak concretely people who have nothing better to do and enjoy nit-picking will fuss over every word you say and interpret only common semantics; such as a term like "laissez-faire" which as a descriptor should be interpreted similarly to "que sera sera" but is too commonly only associated with particular etymology. Non-binding commentary, ie, "I shouldn't need to include a disclaimer on a subject forum that my commentary is neither a concrete statement nor binding in a court of law." is poking fun at those people who would otherwise ruffle their feathers while trying to ruffle mine over interpretation.
"ill-read" obviously implies those who are not read into the customary usage of finite vice open-ended wording.
As a lawyer, I'm sure you can appreciate the art of occasional ambiguity in law- not every situation can be nailed down in one concrete statement -> if they could we wouldn't have the ability to amend (or on occasion, interpret) the constitution.-1 -
Yup. Politician confirmed.5
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