What is satiety exactly?

(Jake Burns) #1

Is it feeling stuffed like on Thanksgiving day?
Is it eating just enough to stave off that empty hungry feeling?
Or is it something else?

(Cindy) #2

Somewhere in the middle of those two. :wink:

(Allan Misner) #3

The way we would say it where I was raised, “I ain’t hungry.”

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #4

For me it’s not hungry anymore, but not painfully stuffed. Seeing a decent amount and mentally agreeing with my tummy that it’s going to tide me over for a while.

(Eric - The patient needs to be patient!) #5

I did not know till I started fasting. IF helped a little. As soon as my first 30hr fast I knew when I started refeeding. When I think I’m close I stop and wait 20 mins. If not feeling it I eat a little more of something fatty. HWC (occasionally), macadamia nuts, pork rinds, piece of cheese. Piece of bacon if some is handy.

I’m getting better with estimating meals that I take to work or even cook for myself. It has taken me some time to get in touch with satiety.

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #6

Satiety is learning that there is plenty of your food left on a plate, but you don’t need to eat it, that you are content with what you have eaten already without the need to over indulge, thus the ‘stuffed’ feeling.

I haven’t felt hungry since June 2018.

#7

Even when I used to feel stuffed on Thanksgiving day, I was still hungry.

For me now, satiety is when I can think about food and not feel an overwhelming need to eat something. Before keto, I was always thinking about food and would have a tough time not giving in to the urge to eat.

(PSackmann) #8

In part, eating enough at a meal to not need to eat again for 5+ hours. Not stuffed, but definitely satisfied and knowing I’m good. The more I stretch the time between meals, the hungrier I am at the first bite, and the easier it is for me to feel full and know it will be enough until I need to eat again.

(Carl Keller) #9

It took some practice for me to determine what my personal satiety is. I don’t always experience it when I am eating and I have to often stop myself and decide that I’ve had enough. For me, satiety is something that comes about 10-15 minutes after I stop eating. It’s a feeling of being content with what’s in my belly and being able to easily make it to my next meal without being hungry.

The things that complicate my satiety signal when eating are:

  1. I was raised to always clean my plate and not waste food.

  2. I’m a pretty good cook and my keto meals are delicious and I have to battle the desire vs the need to keep eating.

My solution has been to cook exactly the amount I will eat. Those amounts are based on how they would leave me feeling after prior meals so there’s no temptation to overeat.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #10

My way is to eat slowly, chewing well and enjoying the experience of eating by drawing it out more than the average person. As I eat there will come a time when I start doing something, conversation, checking something on my phone whatever and I realize the hunger crisis is over and I feel comfortable with what I have eaten. I estimate this to be about 80% full.

(Windmill Tilter) #11

I can always eat another handful of peanuts, but I’ll only eat frozen brussel sprouts straight from the microwave if I’m not satiated.

Find your brussel sprouts and you’ll never have to guess…:yum:

#12

David, I used to shovel down my food, and never really enjoyed my meals.

Eating keto, I now savor every bite, my meals are so enjoyable! :yum:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #13

For me, satiety is a definite lack of interest in food. The first time it happened, it came between one bite and the next. I had loaded up my plate, as I always did, back then, and about halfway through, I couldn’t eat another bite. Stomach nowhere near full, plate no more than half-finished, and I was done. This is the boy who used to eat most of a pound of pasta, have a painfully distended stomach, and still want more.

As I understand the science of it, in order for us to experience this, our insulin level needs to be low enough to allow the leptin secreted by our fat tissue to be received in the hypothalamus. Too high an insulin level, and the excess insulin occupies the leptin receptors, which is one of the reasons fat people are always hungry. With insulin out of the way, leptin can tell the brain that we have enough energy in storage not to need food for a while, and the brain signals the stomach to stop secreting ghrelin, so that our appetite will go away till we need more food.

(Eric - The patient needs to be patient!) #14

So here I am at 4:30 am getting ready for the gym. Ate to satiety last night. This morning stomach is growling a little but it is NOT hunger signals. It is just getting woke up with coffee. Still satietated (not sure how to spell the past tense) from last night. Not full feeling, just not hungry.

Before keto when I would wake up I would be hungry and would grab a piece of cheese or lunch meat.

#15

I just realised what satiety is, by not feeling satiated after a somewhat low-fat dinner. Being satiated means having eaten well enough to not want coconut chips afterwards. And I love coconut chips.