Made me hungry now...Depends a bit on your goals, assuming you are pursuing a low-carb diet.
I have blueberries and other berries (two blueberries, two raspberries, one strawberry) every morning with breakfast. I don't have oats, but I do eat a very small amount (one tablespoon) of home-made sugar-free granola with those berries, and a small quantity of milk to cover that mixture. Afterwards, I eat a couple of tablespoons of Greek yogurt. That does mean much of my carb load is at breakfast, given that I am on a very-low-carb lifestyle. But it works for me. To each his/her own LC method....
Made me hungry now...
I was very hungry when starting the LC diet. This went away after a few weeks. Recently though (8 to 9 months into this thing) hunger has made its return, coupled with renewed (much slower, but real) weight loss. Not sure what is going on there. BG is under great control. I am eating like a horse.
In some ways I suspect that "hunger is good." I think our prehistoric selves were probably hungry all the time!!!!
I know what u mean.
Another thing is if you look up the definition of "hunger" it is not really what we think it is. "Real" hunger is rare in advanced Western societies. It is characterized by violent and painful stomach cramps because the belly is empty, and of course, extreme malnutrition. It takes a long period of very bad nutrition to get to that stage.
About two months after starting LC diet I started getting violent stomach cramps and complacently told my family, "now I know what REAL hunger feels like." But it turned out to be a kidney stone!!!!
Is it ok to have strawberries & blueberries with steel oatmeal in the morning
Eat that avocado! Healthiest fat around and very satisfying as far as hunger.I was very hungry when starting the LC diet. This went away after a few weeks. Recently though (8 to 9 months into this thing) hunger has made its return, coupled with renewed (much slower, but real) weight loss. Not sure what is going on there. BG is under great control. I am eating like a horse.
In some ways I suspect that "hunger is good." I think our prehistoric selves were probably hungry all the time!!!!
Edited to add: I suspect my heresy is that I do low-carb, low-fat. That perhaps explains this renewal of hunger, which eventually may need to be quelled with a gradual increase in dietary fat (??). We'll see.
Eat that avocado! Healthiest fat around and very satisfying as far as hunger.
The only time I get hungry is when my sugars are moving around. I can tell when I need insulin when I’m hungryI have an entire avocado every day.... Hunger is back, even with the daily avo. Not as bad as when I first started low-carb though.
I found for myself that I too had the feeling of hunger coming back.I have an entire avocado every day.... Hunger is back, even with the daily avo. Not as bad as when I first started low-carb though.
Any possible carb creep? [snip] Any new foods added?
Well hopefully it goes away but eating that many nuts prior to now surely brought your fat and calories way down! Olives probably won’t cut it. Have you replaced both the fat and calories with other fatty foods? That could be the missing link.A bit of both perhaps.
I gave up nuts altogether a few weeks ago (in an effort to stop the kidney stones!!), and this seemed to trigger both a small weight loss (1KG) and increased hunger. This is not surprising as I had been eating a lot of nuts, probably four times a day! Unlike you, I find that eating nuts cuts appetite, rather than increasing it (indeed that is why I was eating them!). I am going to replace the nuts with olives, just haven't made time to go to my favorite olive store.
I don't think there has been any carb creep except over the Thanksgiving Holiday. I was careful, but we were away and the total quantities of food consumed were way above average so carbs perforce must have increased proportionally with total food eaten. A few beers were consumed too, which is Naughty.
The only food I have added was very recent (in the past couple of days) and that is a single square of Lindt 85% chocolate per day, with my post-lunch coffee. That's about 4g carbs and hardly likely to break the bank. Plus, the hunger returned before I added this new food.
The hunger comes and goes. I wasn't hungry yesterday and am not hungry today, so maybe it's over (or maybe the over-eating during Thanksgiving has satiated me??).
Have you replaced both the fat and calories with other fatty foods? That could be the missing link.
Thinking about this, if I don’t have enough fat during the day and skimp on it, I end up eating it at night anyway. I seem to need a certain amount of fat each dayCheese consumption, already high prior to cutting out nuts, has gone even higher. I think you are right though that I need to work on the fats. I wish I could eat nuts, but they are on most of the "kidney-stone causation" lists. It will take me a good three to six months stone-free before I even know whether the nuts are (or could have been) the stone-causation factor in my case. What I do know almost for sure is that the KS's are caused by element(s) of my low-carb diet, since I never had them in my life, until three months after starting low-carb.
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