Vegetables and Satiety

Lol. I'm just the opposite. I have to limit veggie snacks so I'll have room for meals.

Snacking specifically, if I snack on not-protein, it doesn't hold me well. (There can be some not-protein in the snack, but there has to be a meaningful bit of protein.)

I do seem to need to eat something high volume sometime during the day in order to feel sated, and that's usually a ridiculously large serving of veggies at dinner, plus some smaller but still decent-sized ones at other times. (Large = the whole bag of frozen broccoli, which is supposed to be 5 servings, and runs around half a kilo/over a pound; smaller = an apple that's typically 100g-ish, maybe more, or 100g of mixed berries.)

The volume/veggies are just part of my overall picture for best satiety, though, and a small amount (like a few crudites) for a snack wouldn't be sating. A whole English cucumber (the long thin-skinned ones) might go some way (it's like 300g-ish usually?).

We're all different though, as the platitude goes, eh?

My experience: vegetables satiate me for hours, but for vegetables I mean a lot of them (in each meal, at least 3-4 kinds of them, and a very very giant portion of each one, I literally eat around half a kilo of veggies at each meal). So yes, volume helps me... but for volume I mean really "volume" :-)

On the other hand, it's fruit that triggers hunger, in me. I nonetheless eat it for snacks 'cause it's healthy etc etc, but I learnt to eat it from one hour to half an hour before the main meals, so I satiate hunger without having to eat other snacks.

Other snacks in my day are a slice of parmesan (I found it really satiating); a square of dark chocolate (not so satiating but also no trigger) and sometimes nuts/almonds (but these trigger hunger, for me, so again, like fruit: only a little before main meals).

Editing: all these "tricks" work for me only since I introduced the “plate diet”, and it has been this different way of introducing foods that satiate me a lot. So, I'm losing at steady pace, but never undereating (five days at about 1700 calories/day, and two at 2000/2200 – that are pizza days and burger days). In other words, I use snacks deliberately to introduce more calories, not because I'm hungry before eating them, so maybe my way is not ok for you.

I am the exact same why with veggies and fruits. If i eat them even as a side dish to a meal they make me hungrier. Like I can be eating and 15 minutes later my stomach is growling and telling me I'm still hungry if I had a bunch of veggies or fruit.

However, I have found that protein and starchy veggies seem to help with this, but this poses another problem in not going over total calories for the day.

COGypsy wrote: »

I'm probably just biologically weird, but does anyone else find that vegetables make you demonstrably hungrier?

I've been sticking to crudites if I want to snack in the afternoon, but I just get hungrier and hungrier. I've just had about 150g of carrots with spinach dip and my stomach is growling so loudly that even my velcro dog gave me side-eye and went to sleep in the other room.

This is pretty typical when I snack on vegetables, even with dip (e.g. fat). I'm generally not a volume eater, I'm more of a grazer, so I don't think it's a matter of not eating enough to be satisfied. My stomach wasn't growling this much (or at all, actually) even before I ate, so I'm puzzled. Any ideas from the hive mind?

That is what they do for me. I will get a very brief time where I am full, but usually within an hour I am hungry again if I eat mainly vegetables. An unexpected benefit for me of going Keto, for specific health reasons but this was a happy benefit, is I found for me high fat, moderate protein, and very low carbs seems to not only satisfy me short term, but keep me full for a much longer time than a more veggie based diet. I know others who are the opposite. Find what works for you.