As per the title I just ate 100g of fat with no problems. I feel full but not too full. I wanted to see if my satiety would kick in but alas no… I could have probably eaten more… if I eat like that at every meal would be at 300g of fat/day. Is this not excessive?
100g fat... In one meal?!
mememe
#3
Where are you with your keto journey?
What are your stats eg weight height age etc.
That beautiful Rottweiler above is right, see how you feel between meals and let that guide you.
If you are starting out with keto, just go with it. Don’t try to change yet.
If you have been keto for a while, 100g per meal x 3 meals a day, MIGHT be a lot, when you add the other macros to it.
Screenack
(less is more, more or less)
#4
For my own reference, a stick of butter has 92 grams of fat. Yum.
It depends on a number of factors. How long have you been low-carb? What kind of fat? Butter? Coconut oil? <shudder>Canola oil</shudder>?
You don’t provide enough context to say, but, really your body knows better than any of we strangers. I’m 6’1” and 300 grams of fat a day isn’t necessarily too much for me, but I’d be surprised if I sought that out, out of natural hunger. Your body may simply need more time to restore its natural satiety mechanisms.
FWIW, I only count total carbs. Nothing else. I don’t care about my macros.
Justin_Jordan
(Justin Jordan)
#5
Some people (me, for instance) have satiety signals that are broken. So you may not.
Screenack
(less is more, more or less)
#6
Well, mine were broken the first maybe six months into LCHF. Now, I’m completely comfortable with my satiety signals. YMMV.
MiKetoAF
(Mike W.)
#8
Was it attached to food? I find I can drink 3 BPC 900 calorie each, and not feel anything. I get full off steak fat or butter MUCH faster.
mememe
#9
I read somewhere, a while back, that fats you have to eat (saturated) are much better for triggering satiety.
I don’t know how true this is.
It was something to do with quantities and mental triggers.
MiKetoAF
(Mike W.)
#10
I agree wholeheartedly. The BPC thing is great for getting fat starting out, but I really think its holding a lot of people back from finding satiety and also losing weight.
Rob_Grantham
(Rob Grantham)
#11
It was mascarpone and yes I think my satiety signals are completely broken. I don’t think I really know what hunger or satiety feels like at all. It’s such a struggle… as to eat when I feel hungry again it’s really strange because I don’t get what I would describe as a hunger feeling I just get a bit nervous panickey so I eat and this feeling goes away
JohnH
(John)
#13
I generally find I need a mix of protein, fat, and keto-style carbs to get the satiety trigger. Dinner last night was a piece of salmon, and some spinach with shredded cheese. Filled me up fine, and it was a small meal.
Drinking pure olive oil would add pure fat calories but I am pretty sure it’s not going to make me feel like I just had a good meal.
islandlight
(Laurie)
#14
If you don’t have reliable signals, you could choose a framework for yourself and take it from there. For example, you might decide to eat 2 meals a day, each comprising a certain amount of meat and maybe some veg. Either that will go well or it won’t. If it doesn’t, decide what to do next.
It does take time. I used to feel some kind of need to snack after my 2 keto meals, but I think a lot of this was habit (years of midnight bingeing, etc.). Eventually it sorts itself out. Good luck!
CarlKeller
(Carl Keller)
#15
I think we all have had this problem of eating until we are full. I believe if we eat what we think is appropriate and stop, we are much better off. Fullness is almost always excessive and if you are not hungry hours after eating something appropriate, then it was enough. It took me some time to get this through my skull. I found it was easier to cook exactly what I thought was appropriate with no leftovers.
On some days that I do Omad, I can and have eaten 100 grams of fat in one sitting, but it’s not typical because I try to stay under 75g (so that I can let my body fat be used as fuel). Anything over 100g of fat for someone fat-adapted may not hurt you, but it also won’t help you.
Screen, I think you could take this guy. I believe in you! 
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#16
How long have you been eating a ketogenic diet? It took me about three or four weeks of eating at my normal, carbohydrous, gut-stuffing rate, but one day, during lunch, I was half-way through what was for me a normal-sized plate, and suddenly I was done. Plenty of room for more food, but a complete lack of interest in having any more. It was weird, for a boy accustomed to filling his belly to the point where “just one more waffer-theen mint” would have made me imitate the chap in the film.
When we say “eat to satiety,” we mean “eat until you no longer feel hungry, and stop.” For me, when I reach that point, my belly is very rarely more than half-full. If I try to push past that point, I start feeling nauseated. I seriously doubt I could eat 300 grams of fat without vomiting.
If you are early in your ketogenic way of eating, it may be that your body is craving energy and needs the fat to return to metabolic health. Not only that, but eating carbohydrate bollixes up our satiety signaling, because too much insulin prevents the hypothalamus from receiving the leptin secreted by your adipose tissue. (The leptin is supposed to tell your brain to stop eating for a while, because there’s enough energy in storage to last a while.) It takes a period of low insulin, it seems, before the hypothalamus can start sensing leptin levels again. My satiety signaling has grown much stronger since that early experience I mentioned.
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#17
For what it’s worth, there are documented cases of people eating enormous amounts of food by eating to satiety on a ketogenic diet, and they still lost weight. It’s uncommon, but it can happen. And the British nutrition activist Sam Feltham documented a month of eating five thousand (5,000) calories a day, a month during which his weight remained stable, but his body added a bit of muscle and metabolized a bit of fat.
The point is not that 300 g of fat a day is a good idea, but rather that the body has ways of dealing with caloric excess, just as it has of dealing with caloric deficiency. If you’ve only been keto for five days, then don’t worry about how much you’re eating; if for five years, then don’t eat so much, lol!