Hunger Signals: Made 5lbs wings... Only ate a few. What is happening@

#1

So… I think after a good 3 months I’m finally starting to get the whole “listen to your body” thing everybody keeps talking about.

Tonight I baked up 5lbs of wings, made 2 keto sauces for variety and was ready to feast. Past wing nights at the bar could easily get 3lbs down. Now… I must disclose that I ate 3 deviled eggs in the middle of the cook as I was getting ravenous… but to my surprise, once the wings were ready to taste… The level of satiety I felt from just 5 was overwhelming.
I was stuffed. And couldn’t believe the mountain of perfectly baked crispy wings I could barely look at without feeling a bit queasy.

So I’ve got about 4.5 lbs of wings as leftovers, but an optimistic outlook that maybe my hunger signaling is “normalizing”.

So let this be a shout out to all us newbies, seems like sticking with keto really does over time change your hunger in ways I can barely believe. Those wings have no business being in my fridge. Kcko!

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(Karen) #2

I eat considerably less volume now too. I’m full very quickly.

(Nick) #3

Welcome to the world of effective leptin signalling. Just as you can trust your thirst signals, now you can trust your hunger signals. Like it’s always supposed to be :slight_smile:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #4

The first time it happened to me, I was still used to being hungry even when my belly was stuffed to bursting. I remember I had just gone completely keto, and I bought two salmon steaks to celebrate. I finished one, then took a bite of the second and suddenly realized I was done eating. But there was still food on my plate! It was so weird.

The stupid part is that it actually took me a minute or two to realize that I could just put the leftover salmon in the fridge for later, as opposed to eating it right then, lol!

(Consensus is Politics) #5

Exactly! I’m used to eating seconds, thirds, or heck, just eat the whole dang pot. I rarely ever had leftovers to deal with. I could put the food down like I had a hollow leg.

Now, I eat one meal a day. It’s not planned, it’s just I’m not hungry. I sometimes find myself fixing breakfast, lunch or dinner, and then putting it in the fridge for later. That’s kind of annoying actually. I hate doing work for no reason. But I tell myself, I’m just “time shifting my meals”:sunglasses:

#6

Hah! The wing update… They were snacked on as a side to poached eggs on spinach and smoked salmon for breakfast. Sauced them up for lunch with a quick cauliflower casserole and veggie platter … And that lunch did double duty yet again as a repeat for dinner.

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The most annoying thing? Our meal planning for the week keeps getting bumped and there are so many great keto recipes I want to try! Butter chicken with keto naan was on deck for tonight but unfortunately those fresh thighs had to go in the freezer til post holidays! Not a bad problem to have eh!

(Pete A) #7

I’m on keto almost 4 months. Now when I shop for meat the 1 pound rib eye or whole rotisserie chicken, which used to each be eaten in one sitting, has to be broken up into multiple meals.

Appetite shrunk!