how to feel full

msb5262

Just a thought - the other thing that really helps is to keep a food diary. Write down EVERYTHING you eat and drink during the day, and as far as possible record how you feel over the day too...then you can look back after a week or two and see how your eating has affected your moods/feelings/energy levels. Can be very interesting and helpful.
MsB

adouglasmhor

msb5262 wrote: »

Just a thought - the other thing that really helps is to keep a food diary. Write down EVERYTHING you eat and drink during the day, and as far as possible record how you feel over the day too...then you can look back after a week or two and see how your eating has affected your moods/feelings/energy levels. Can be very interesting and helpful.
MsB

I have promised myself to do this once the New Year is in.

zzzLazyDaisy

tara747 wrote: »

I know that you know this but am saying it for the benefit of lurkers/those confused about nutrition. I know lots of people who guzzle fruit juice and never eat a whole piece of fruit, and think that they are getting their 5-a-day. .

Also there is LOADS of sugar in fruit juice - it might be natural fruit sugar, but it is still sugar. Check the calorie count on a carton of fresh orange juice, compared to the calories of one orange. Think about it - there are about 5 oranges in a glass of fruit juice - how long would it take you to eat 5 oranges compared with downing a glass of juice?

greenbee

tara747 wrote: »

Your post really is fab and you have covered almost all the bases - so with that said, I hope you don't mind me saying that it is better to eat a piece of fruit than drink fruit juice as you get the fibre that way as well as the sugar. Whole fruit is also very portable and convenient!

I know that you know this but am saying it for the benefit of lurkers/those confused about nutrition. I know lots of people who guzzle fruit juice and never eat a whole piece of fruit, and think that they are getting their 5-a-day.

Anyway, again, I hope that you don't mind me pointing this out and hope it helps someone.

It's a very good point - I drink one glass of fruit juice a day, no more. I reckon one is good for you - any more starts to be in the same category as squash or sweets! If I need something non-alcoholic to drink in the evening and don't feel like water, I drink vegetable juice.

No fizzy drinks (bad for you bones, even the diet ones), no artificial sweeteners - I developed an allergy to sucrose as a teenager so my palate has adapted to natural levels of sweetness.

adouglasmhor wrote: »

I have promised myself to do this once the New Year is in.

I find this very, very depressing every single time I do it. I keep promising myself I'll set up a spreadsheet with nutrional values in it, so I can see how good/bad what I'm eating actually is... but sadly I have to work

tara747

Yes, I too avoid fizzy drinks as I hate them and they are just so sickeningly sweet, urgh!!!! They are also empty calories (apart from the diet ones, which despite having zero calories are just vile).

2cats1kid

Sugar is sugar. Doesn't matter whether it's from granulated or fruit or honey - it is the same molecule and will be treated by the body as such.

I was recommended to stir a spoonful of (no added sugar) peanut butter into porridge. It tastes a bit strange till you get used to it, but it is a lot more sustaining than regular porridge.

greenbee

2cats1kid wrote: »

Sugar is sugar. Doesn't matter whether it's from granulated or fruit or honey - it is the same molecule and will be treated by the body as such.

I was recommended to stir a spoonful of (no added sugar) peanut butter into porridge. It tastes a bit strange till you get used to it, but it is a lot more sustaining than regular porridge.

There are several different kinds of sugars (lets assume the term applies to simple carbohydrates, otherwise we'll get bogged down including all the complex carbs)

Granulated is sucrose (I'm allergic, so I avoid this)

Honey is fructose and glucose. It can also help hayfever sufferers to have a small amount of local honey in their diet.

Fruit contains fructose, but also water, vitamins, minerals, and very importantly, soluble and insoluble fibre. Fruit has significant nutritional value and should be eaten in higher quantities than people generally do.

Milk & milk products contain lactose, which a lot of people are intolerant to.

lisa26_2

Greenbee I'm glad you explained about different sugars.....I was about too but you saved me a job!!! Sugar, fat, carbohydrate and protein are all words used to describe groups of SIMILAR molecules, however there are literally millions of different types of each, all of which will be broken down slightly differently.

thriftlady_2

msb5262 wrote: »

A handy bit of advice I try to bear in mind is, don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't have recognised as food. Maybe these days we need to think of that as great grandmother, but it pretty much works for me...

Michael Pollan rocks!:D and of course it doesn't matter if your great grandmother ate curry, haggis, goulash or blintzes you can be sure they were all made out of ingredients that were once alive.

tandraig

I havent read all this thread, but first, have you seen a doctor? there are some medical conditions which make you feel hungry all the time. best to rule these out first hun, in my opinion.