I couldn't finish my breakfast!

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(Jill F.) #1

So I started Keto 1 week ago, and I have gone from being a carb addict/ fanatic eating carbs basically all day and every meal to less than 20 carbs a day.
I have been eating 2 scrambled eggs with heavy cream, a little shredded cheese, spinach, butter, and either 2 sausage patties or 2 pieces bacon over the past week. When I started eating this I was still hungry and craving toast!
After just a week I was soooooooo excited this morning to actually feel full. Like comfortably full after only 1/2! I was in shock! I actually saved the rest for an afternoon snack! Has anyone else experienced this? Could my stomach be shrinking or adapting this quickly?
#ketovictories

(Carl Keller) #2

Welcome to forum Jill. :slight_smile:

Yes it happened to me too. I’d say around week 2 that I could eat less and not be as hungry as I would expect. I believe it means that your body is becoming better at using the fats you eat for fuel. I wouldn’t call it adapted just yet, but definitely getting better at the process. The better sign of being fat adapted is when you can go all day without eating and still not being overly hungry… but I wouldn’t expect that in at least a month or two of eating keto.

(Willow) #3

Hello,
I usually am bad at eating even before starting keto 5 days ago. Usually in the morning 9 am I just have Coffee with butter heavy cream, coconut oil, one squeeze of Splenda Zero. Then I am not hungry until 2 or 3 at this time I eat a no carb snack (meat and cheese). Then I eat dinner at 7-8pm.I drink lots of water. I have not felt deprived at all. I think it means we are doing Ketoing right!!:yum:

(Empress of the Unexpected) #4

You are so lucky - I need to eat every four hours.

(Running from stupidity) #5

It’s a PITA when you’re trying to make sure you eat enough to stop your energy intake going through the floor :slight_smile:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #6

Please forgive a small correction: what has happened is not that your stomach is smaller, but that your insulin level is now low enough for the satiety signaling from your stomach and fat tissue to now be able to get through to your brain. You are not full, you are satisfied—there is a difference. It’s the difference between having stuffed yourself but still feeling hungry and having eaten enough. (“Satisfied” and “satiety” both derive from the Latin word satis, which means “enough.”)

What you experienced took me a few weeks, but it was certainly startling. I have to confess that it was a really weird sensation to have food left on my plate and not have to eat it.

This experience means, however, that you can now trust your hunger level as a guide to how much to eat. Your body will do your calorie-counting for you, as long as you continue to keep your carbohydrate intake low.

(David Cooke) #7

Most people never really eat a “normal” breakfast anyway. For myself, I eat around 900 to 1000 kcal for breakfast every day, Lunch will then be around 600 kcal and I find myself struggling to eat much for dinner. I wonder which is preferable?

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #8

The longer the period in the day when you are not eating, the more consistently low your insulin level will stay. And that’s when all the good things happen!