how to feel full

ubamother

I find a good breakfast does a strange thing to the eating day - if I have a filling breakfast, I feel starving by lunchtime, but then a normal lunch and then dinner later stuffs me and I don't feel the urge to snack later in the evening which is a real danger time for me for cheese and biccys etc. I'm sure its something technical about eating and metabolism, but I think that's why some people say eating breakfast just makes them hungry - but they're not looking at their food input over the whole day.

adouglasmhor

On the subject of porridge – if you think my taking it with salt is weird. My GF’s brother was in the Ukraine a few years ago and they had porridge for breakfast with PICKLES! They thought it was strange that he had sugar and milk with his.

Rebekah24

Dont aim to feel full, 1/2 usually does just fine.

Protein helps- cottage cheese, eggs, whey, egg cream shakes(google)

I drink tonnes of tea, really curbs hunger

Slim tea & Fennel tea really kill appetite

katsu

I put no sugar in our porridge at all. You can use cinnamon for a sweet flavour but no sugar. I use cinnamon and fresh fruit, contributing to my 5 a day too HTH

Barneysmom

thriftlady wrote: »

Protein makes you feel full for longer. Eggs, meat, fish, beans and so on.

I find things like porridge, cereals, wholemeal bread do not make me full at all. If I eat a bowl of porridge for breakfast at 7 I am famished by 9. If I have a scrambled egg at 7 then I'm full until lunchtime.

I'm exactly the same, cereals just don't fill me up for more than about an hour.....
Yesterday we had boiled potatoes, a very thin slice of pork pie, and baked beans for (a very late about 10.00) breakfast and I never ate then till about 7 o'clock, it did me all day without even a sniff of a bar of chocolate.
I find I can concentrate much better if I have a good hot breakfast, I think I should be swapping my meals round.....have a cooked meal for breakfast and a bowl of cornflakes for supper

A bowl of cereal/porridge isn't really meant to last you from 7.00 till lunchtime, have a banana or toast with it too....

msb5262

In reply to FirstTimer4Me, post #30
"are cup a soup low calorie?"
Short answer - they're fairly low calorie.
Real answer - they have very little food value.
If you can avoid instant foods like this, you will benefit both financially and healthwise. Ingredients in cup a soup include maize and potato starches, as well as glucose syrup, sugar, flavourings that ‘contain milk’, and flavour enhancers (the dreaded Es).
You've heard of highly processed foods - this is certainly one of them! Make your own soup and you'll really taste the difference.

greenbee

I have fruit and maybe a spoonful of honey with my porridge (depends on the fruit). This gives me a range of different carbs, so the fruit/honey is instant energy to wake me up, and the oats are longer-lasting... that's the theory anyway! It also means that with a glass of juice I've had 2 of my 5 a day, and if I make the porridge with milk that's my calcium sorted.

On days when I don't have time to make porridge (i.e. when I'm out of the house at 6.30 and eating my breakfast at work), I make up yogurt/muesli/fruit in a tupperware the night before to take with me, and drink the juice before I leave home. Again, I get my simple carbs, complex carbs, calcium and a couple of portions of fruit.

A hard boiled egg is a great portable, filling snack... I know someone who always travels with one in her bag, rather than a cereal bar!

Work lunches tend to be egg/fish/cheese with pasta or rice and lots of salad (I aim to be over my 5 a day by the end of lunch). Oatcakes with peanut butter make a good snack, as do clementines (the peeling helps!), a handful of almonds or rice cakes with marmite.

I find it's a good idea to have a snack at about 4pm, as I don't leave work till 6, so if I don't eat before then I risk heading for the vending machine before I leave or eating whatever is easiest when I get home rather than my planned nutrious meal.

Lunches when working from home are frequently forgotten or grazed, but if planned they will usually be soup and oatcakes (I don't keep bread in the house, as I rarely eat it, and it's also easy to eat the whole lot out of boredom!)

I agree with Rebekah about fennel tea! At this time of year, lots of warming drinks are a good thing anyway, and fennel is supposed to aid digestion.

debtmess

i have porridge with fruit for breakfast, useally chopped apple but if anything in fruit bowl is looking tired will use that instead, lunch useally soup and crispbreads or ryvitas with soft cheese, dinner depends

my main snack time is evenings when the little ones are in bed, will read through this fully to see if there is a way of curbing this

Ruby_Pudding

jessicamb wrote: »

Eat slowly - its one of the things Paul McKenna advocates in his weight loss series. Basically if you chew your food thoroughly then your brain will be able to tell your body to stop eating when its full rather than overfull when you wolf your food down.

Yep, agree with this. It really works and I feel full (properly full) after 7 or 8 mouthfuls now.

misskool

i drink a glass of water (when I remember) before eating.

Soup definitely makes me feel full. snack on things that are more work to eat (ie buy nuts in shells, fruit for peeling), I eat a lot of rice cakes.

If I'm feeling really hungry, I have a cup of hot water and a bit of vegetable bouillion (the marigold stuff) and that keeps me going for a while. A bit of dried onion and it's almost cup a soup.

Basically agree with what most people say on here too.

Also, if you're stressed and tired you may feel more hungry than when you're not. So sleep and feeling happy also helps