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Qc34x2

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I managed my GD with a fairly strict lchf diet (bearing in mind that I was pregnant at the time and I am thin). Since then I have tried to stick to it (with a potential type I diagnosis on my mind) albeit with more carbs as I am breastfeeding. With a strict lchf diet don't you all get really hungry? Thanks
 
Qc34x2 said:
Hi

I managed my GD with a fairly strict lchf diet (bearing in mind that I was pregnant at the time and I am thin). Since then I have tried to stick to it (with a potential type I diagnosis on my mind) albeit with more carbs as I am breastfeeding. With a strict lchf diet don't you all get really hungry? Thanks
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Hi. In a word - no. Interestingly, when I was munching all kinds of rubbish..that's when I was more likely to "need" to snack. I'm sure much of that "hunger" thing is psychological. Let's face it, how many of us on this site have ever actually been literally starving?
 
Hi @Qc34x2 ..
Can't remember the last time I was hungry and I've lost 27 kg since Feb on LCHF by following the three golden rules ..
# only eat real food
# only eat when you're hungry
# stop eating when you're full
 
If you are often hungry, try having more "good fats" e.g. olives, oily fish etc. Also provided your curb intake is low, using a little butter when cooking can help.
 
There is always something you can eat - it is not like a calorie controlled diet, when you are hungry you can eat.
However, I have always found that low carb way of eating is very satisfying, even the small amounts I eat sustain me without needing 'top ups' in between meals.
 
pleinster said:
Hi. In a word - no. Interestingly, when I was munching all kinds of rubbish..that's when I was more likely to "need" to snack. I'm sure much of that "hunger" thing is psychological. Let's face it, how many of us on this site have ever actually been literally starving?
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I'm used to feast and famine, possibly because of that I wasn't particularly hungry even on the 800 calorie Newcastle diet, I knew what and when was coming.
But, I can also eat continuously, if I let it get away from me.
 
I very rarely feel hungry and am always surprised that the number of times I've said to my wife, "I've eaten too much" is remarkably low...
Breakfast was a pile of walnuts, raspberries and Lidl Greek yogurt.
Lunch, cheese and pork scratchings.
Tonight I had a 10 oz steak, peas, asparagus, baked mushrooms and a green salad with avocado and toms.... and I could actually eat it all again, I feel that far from being full up.
 
I was ravenously hungry all day everyday for 50 years.

Avocado is my magic bullet as well as very low carbing. Small snack sized meals are better for me too. Seems th elarger the meal, the less satisfied I am.
 
I've noticed quite a few different 'hungers', from ravening-eat-my-own-arm, through Hungry and hAngry to Carb Craving, nibblish or peckish.

Most of them only happen (for me) when I exceed my personal carb tolerance.

If I keep my carbs low enough, then i rarely get hungry, and when i do, it is just ordinary need-to-eat-soon.
 
No - I actually get far less hungry eating this way than by eating my previous higher carb diet. It's not a low calorie or starvation type diet - you just eat as much as you need but swap all the high carb/sugar foods for enough healthy full fat to supply your energy needs.

Your body can store far more fuel in the form of fat than it can from carbs, but when you eat a high carb diet, it's been "trained" to use this type of fuel and when it's exhausted this it can't access any stored fat, so you need to top up regularly. Eating a low enough carb diet enables your body to make the chemical changes which gives it the key to your huge "fatty larder" so you'll get much less hungry and will be able to go longer without needing to eat.

Robbity
 
I do agree I can store way more fuel from fat, I can balloon up, and the scales certainly agree if I pile fat in.
 
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