I never feel 'full'

Same here! It's crazy but I will try again tomorrow. One day at a time.

Filling up on protein might help.

tarynopolis wrote: »

Protein is probably where I struggle. I follow a vegetarian diet, but to me I feel like I eat enough protein but my body is telling me otherwise? I tend to make that as an excuse for eating more, I think.

snacking in between meals on Peanuts help curb appetite and they are good for you too

yes you need to find what triggers your over eating we all over eat for a reason eg emotional. boredom. depression

sbrandt37 wrote: »

I read a book on this topic called "Mindless Eating" that I found really helpful. One of the things it says (and proves) is that feeling full is highly subjective, and that it is healthier to aim for feeling "not hungry".

Recognizing the difference between feeling hungry and craving food is also important. I often crave food when I am not hungry. When that happens now, I drink a zero-calorie drink instead of eating something.

When I am genuinely hungry between meals, I snack now, which makes it easier to eat mindfully at mealtime.

This is pretty similar to what I was going to say.

OP, I wonder if you just need to adjust what "feel satisfied" means to you. That stuffed feeling is not necessary, and you also don't need to feel like you couldn't eat more. My signals were messed up when I started and so I decided how much I should eat in a day and stuck with it and found even when my eye was off and it looked like just a little (and I could have eaten more), I'd be perfectly content with less. Bulking meals out with vegetables also helped me, and until I got used to not snacking having some raw veg if I really wanted to eat something.

That said, you mention snacking a lot and that (grazing, basically) has never worked for me and contributes to me not feeling satisfied. I am much better off with 3 larger meals. But you should experiment with what works for you.

Trying to start by relying on signals to tell you how much to eat often doesn't work, though, even if you can fix it so it does later. I instead had an idea in my mind of how much to eat, how much I would eat at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and then logged throughout the day, and found I was satisfied.

I had this problem. I got into the habit of eating until I feel stuffed, so eating until my hunger had gone left me feeling unsatisfied with my food and I'd be straight in the cupboard stuffing my face with cookies etc until I felt my normal stuffed. Few years of eating like this has left me 50% over my healthy weight.

I changed once I admitted I was just plain old greedy!
I changed to a smaller dinner plate and made a conscious effort to stop eating once I was no longer hungry, rather than stopping when I felt full.

It definitely changed my eating habits, and I lost half of the weight just over a year ago.....slowly put what I'd lost back on over the next year but that's another storie based around way too much chocolate!
I never regained the habit of eating until I was stuffed though thankfully.

Sometimes you just have to stick with it and accept the hunger until you adjust both physically and mentally, but it's definitely worth checking your macros in case you're out and it's adding to the problem.

I like to eat a lot of food in one sitting, which is where intermittent fasting comes in handy for me....I eat one large meal each day and sometimes a small one, depending on my activity level. I can get all my needed calories in at once, or during a four - six hour span and then I'm done for the day.