I can’t get myself to stay full!

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  • UditaM
    UditaM Posts: 7 Member
    edited July 2019
    taytaylewlew11 wrote: »
    Please help me with trying to stay full. I love to eat so much and that’s my biggest problem is I don’t know when to stop. Any advice for me?

    I had this problem my first couple weeks. It was exacerbated by my huge appetite. 3 things helped me:

    1) adding lots of green beans and other calorie light foods to lunch and dinner

    2) steel-cut oatmeal and a hard boiled egg for breakfast most mornings

    3) upped my calories and added more excersize, specifically swimming.

    4) I have a treat night every Friday and eat add much of whatever I want (on hard days, I just look forward to Friday)

    Once I went from trying to lose 2 pounds a week to one pound, I found myself actually losing about a pound and a half each week but I feel like I'm succeeding. That's helped so much with my motivation and feeling of wellbeing.
  • PiscesIntuition
    PiscesIntuition Posts: 1,365 Member
    I find that crunching/eating ice helps to keep hunger away. I assume I’m tricking my brain into thinking I’m eating food.

    I have a high metabolism and have always eaten a lot. I add low calorie/high volume foods to each meal as well (as a previous poster suggested).
    Things like green cabbage, green beans, lettuce, strawberries, etc.

    Check out the volume eaters thread. Here is a list of some low calorie/high volume foods:
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  • Crafty_camper123
    Crafty_camper123 Posts: 1,440 Member
    thewhiterook wrote: »
    aidydh wrote: »
    JaydedMiss wrote: »
    Learn to aim for satiated vs full.

    This is what I'm doing now. I have been struggling for a while with staying full and I think I may be experiencing leptin resistance. I will eat a huge meal and be hungry again 90-120 minutes later. The only other time I have been this way in my life was when I was pregnant.

    I did some research and unfortunately there is no formal treatment for leptin resistance. You can change the way you eat. I just started eating to lower cholesterol, lower triglicerides and combat insulin resistance. Surprisingly, it is helping some to be satisfied and better satiated.

    Here is a typical day for me:
    Breakfast: 1 egg, 1 egg white, 1/4 cup tomatoes, 1 cup spinach, 1/8 cup onions cooked in a scramble. 1/2 whole wheat bagel and 1/4 cup blueberries or 4 oz cantaloupe.

    Mid morning snack: RX bar

    Lunch: 1/2 can tuna, 1 tbsp light mayo, 1 tbsp dill pickle relish, 1/4 avocado, two slices whole wheat bread

    Mid afternoon snack: 1/4 cup hummus and red bell pepper strips or 2 tbsp natural peanut butter and celery sticks.

    Dinner: 4-5 ounces of chicken breast with grilled veggies and a roasted sweet potato.

    This type of meal plan works to combine fats/proteins and fiber to keep me fuller throughout the day.

    Here is a webpage that I am using as a reference to help me plan out my meals and get ideas for each day:

    https://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/features/triglyceride-friendly-meals

    How many calories is this? This wouldn't keep a mouse full. Unless you're bedridden and 60 years old, good chance you should be eating a lot more than this.

    Actually, it looks to be right around 13/1400 calories. That's right on target for a lot of us women. Especially us shorties. :smile:

    Without knowing your stats I'm going to throw a couple of things out there OP.

    Make sure you are getting enough protien. If I don't start my day with at least 15 grams, it will make for a very hungry day for me. And I'll find myself snacking all day long. 90-150 grams in a day seems to keep the hunger at bay.

    Try adding more fiber. Fiber especially things like veggies not only add bulk to your food, so you get more volume, they'll digest slower and help keep you full longer.

    If you've adjusted your protein and fiber and still find yourself hungry re-evaluate your calorie goal. If you have set yourself to 2lbs loss for example, adjust it down .5lbs in your goals to give you more calories. Depending on your starting weight 2lbs or even 1lbs loss a week could be too agressive, causing you to be hungry. It's better to lose slowly and then quickly. It will be easier to stick to your calorie goal, and it will stay off longer if it's not as drastic of a change to your lifestyle.
  • GrizzledSquirrel
    GrizzledSquirrel Posts: 120 Member
    Just a thought, but rather than ask yourself “Am I full?”, maybe ask yourself, “Am I hungry?” Or “Am I STILL hungry?”

    Then, if you say “Yes”. Ask yourself once more, just to be sure. Are you actually hungry? Really, REALLY?

    You say you love to eat...Oh, me too!! But loving to eat is very different to needing to eat because your stomach is gnawing on itself. I love to eat:
    because I like the flavour
    because I am bored/sad/angry
    because I am treating myself
    because I need/deserve a break
    because I am socialising
    because I am procrastinating
    and sometimes (albeit rarely), simply because I am hungry.

    It is never because I am “not full”.

    Of course, I can’t speak for people who have chemical imbalances which make it difficult to sense whether they are full or not - that’s a whole different ballgame.

    However, perhaps before you look at your body, take a look at your mind and see if the reason that you don’t feel full is actually something else entirely.
  • brenn24179
    brenn24179 Posts: 2,144 Member
    I think I am not craving foods a lot of the time, craving something else like connection with people, etc.
  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,467 Member
    @taytaylewlew11
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  • erenmate
    erenmate Posts: 2 Member
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