Eaten all day - stomach feels full, mouth craves more?!

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  • DKG28
    DKG28 Posts: 299 Member
    "It's as if I'm looking for a food but I don't know what it is, and I keep eating to find it."

    This. totally this! Definite sign of mental/psychological hunger. I've started asking myself that very question "what exactly are you craving?" Most of the time, i'm craving the feeling to shoving something into my mouth. If it's that I know i'm not actually hungry and in need of food. I find that when my stomach is genuinely growling, i'm actually hungry for a balanced nutritious meal. When not, the comfort foods and sweets come into the picture, or mostly, that feeling of "i'll eat anything just to satisfy the urge to eat something".

  • Running_and_Coffee
    Running_and_Coffee Posts: 811 Member
    I get this way and I think it has 0% to do with what you eat and 100% to do with a very small subversive piece of you thinking, "It's not fair! I eat healthy all day and that's just no fun! I want more food pleasure like other people who don't diet get to have!!!"

    Let me know if you figure out the fix. I drink a lot of water, have coffee or tea instead of food, and chew obscene amounts of sugar free gum (which destroys my stomach!!) but the only thing that works is not having food to eat.
  • ZoneFive
    ZoneFive Posts: 570 Member
    edited June 2017
    "Mouth hunger" is what got me to my highest weight. Mouth is all id -- wants something sweet/crunchy/salty/whatever NOW, and will go on demanding something NOW until attention is paid to it.

    Looking at the log you posted, it seems you're eating very little protein. I know when I've had enough protein -- and not just lean protein, either -- my stomach's satisfied and my mouth shuts up, too. On the thankfully rare times I have stomach and mouth hunger, a couple of tablespoons of peanut butter usually does the trick. Deviled eggs and string cheese are good, too. And water. Whatever else you have, drink water with it.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    Zombie thread
  • EloquentSelfLoathing
    EloquentSelfLoathing Posts: 20 Member
    Could be thirst- hunger and thirst often feel the same. Try drinking when hungry, wait half an hoir or so and see if it sorts out. If you're craving sweet you could always have low calorie fizzy drinks - coke zero and such are pretty much 1 calorie a cup, taste sweet and make you feel fuller cause they're bubbly. Also some cup soup type things are low calorie and trick your body into thinking it's getting food. Similar thing with low calorie pots of jelly - they're like 5 calories a pot.
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,745 Member
    Lots of good advice here on experimenting with different macros (and *experimenting* is key, it's very individual, no one size fits all).

    If you do all this and find the perfect diet that keeps you physically satisfied but you still want to CHEW ON SOMETHING, try sugar free chewing gum. I personally sometimes just want to CHEW and it helps me. Plus the mint flavor makes me less inclined to eat anything else.
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