Does your satiety feel like this?

(Maha) #1

I’m not a newbie anymore, my first ketoversary is at the end of next month, but my body has changed over the last 3 months or so and I’ve not experienced what I’m about to describe.

Prior to my 3 month change/stall/something, I was OMAD without any issue. When I ate, I overate to the point that I was past full, but not OMG I want to die. I was still mostly comfortable. The next morning, I would just have plain tea, and not be hungry but looking forward to my lunch. I’d done a couple of 48 hour fasts without issue.

Then, something changed. I started feeling the need to eat more, and that really threw me off. I tried EF again, and it did not work. When it finally did work, I was forcing my body to stick with it - it was not comfortable like it was before. I had been in a great pattern, knew exactly how to manage my eating and was really comfortable in that protocol. But with this change, it kind of threw me off to where I felt like I was starting over. I was having to relearn/readjust my mindset and relisten to my body’s signals. I feel like that really took the whole three months.

Now, my protocol is eating breakfast of HWC in my coffee along with a small breakfast (1-2 eggs, 2-3 bacon, cheese, some version of fat - avocado, sour cream). At lunch time, I’ll just have 1/2 a baggie of sliced bell peppers and a few cherry tomatoes, mostly because I’m eating to be eating, not hungry. Then I’ll have a regular dinner - not huge, but a fatty protein and a veggie with butter or other fat. Oh, I’ll have a nuts snack while I watch tv, but not because I’m hungry - I’m addicted and am working to kick that habit. I’m actually eating less and less nuts in one sitting because my body just kind of says, enough.

The thing is, is that each time I do eat, I don’t get full like before. I can’t even eat to that point anymore. I’m just satisfied and not hungry and my body just kind of tells me to stop eating, even if there is food left and it’s really good (nuts being the exception, but I explained that). Is this what satiety means? Has it really taken a year to figure it out? Seems like a silly question because I thought I had it down, but maybe I was wrong, or I was right for the time frame, and now it’s just different.

(Omar) #2

I know what you talking about.

One year ago the food I eat will weigh more than the food I eat to day to give me satiety.

I don know but maybe my stomach is shrinking or something.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #3

That’'s what I experience, and what I am referring to when I use the word “satiety.”

It comes from the Latin satis, which means “enough.”

(Mike W.) #4

Why did you switch from OMAD to snacking all day? I’m confused.

(Rita) #5

I think Dr Fung said you probably won’t overeat porkchops. I know I won’t. As long as it is no carb I will stop at the satiety point. Low carb foods that are sweet or salty are a different story.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #6

I’m at 13 weeks, and my appetite just slowed way down. Weird, the first four weeks, nothing, forcing myself to eat, then ravenous for a few weeks, and the last week, happy with two meals. And I enjoy the meals more, and don’t feel the need to snack. Maybe my stomach has shrunk? All I know it is a pleasant., in control feeling, without obsessive thoughts about food.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #7

Congratulations, that sounds as though your satiety signaling has kicked in. It’s not that your stomach has shrunk, it’s that your body finally has enough food. (Satiety, satisfaction < Lat. satis ‘enough’)

You have restored your leptin signaling, and your fat cells can now tell your brain that you have enough energy on board.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #8

But I’ve heard this stomach shrinking myth for years! What is it based on?

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #9

No idea, and it may even be true under certain circumstances. I know it’s not true for me on keto, because my satiety signal stops me from eating long before my belly gets full. I can eat more, but strongly don’t want to. The contrast with my sugar-burning days is enormous. I used to eat half a pound of spaghetti, to the point where there was no more physical room in my stomach for more, and I would still want to eat. One of the weirdest days in my life was the day my satiety signaling kicked in, and I had to stop eating and put a half-full plate of food in the fridge for later. That never used to happen! And I wasn’t hungry for hours. It felt so weird not to be hungry!