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  • 13-01-2010 8:41pm
    #1
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,771 ✭✭✭✭


    feel a bit like pacman at the moment?

    I dont know if its the cold weather, but I am constantly hungry lately and its beginning to worry me. Even when I eat healthy filling foods (porridge for breakfast) I'm hungry again a short time later. I'm not exercising right now either as the bad weather has put my pastime on hold.

    Any tips for keeping the hunger pangs away?


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  • #2
    Sapsorrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Sapsorrow


    Eat all you want of low sugar fruit and non-starchy vegetables (soups, salads etc.) and then you don't have to worry about being hungry or getting fat! ;)


  • #3
    susanroth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 308 ✭✭susanroth


    Am i the only one who doesn't find porridge filling? everytime i have it for breakfast i am absolutely starving 10 minutes later. is it just because i don't make it with milk(really do not like milk in porridge:eek:)


  • #4
    white apples
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 342 ✭✭white apples


    I'm the exact same with porridge! Always starving after it, and also after eating fruit I'm even more hungry than before!!


  • #5
    rubadub
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    fits wrote: »
    I dont know if its the cold weather,
    It could well be, keeping your body warm uses up a lot of energy so you need more calories. When people shiver it is the bodies involuntary muscles moving to keep itself warm. I always eat more in winter for this reason and to stave off colds or other illnesses.

    Try some soup, studies have shown it sort of tricks the body into thinking it is getting lots of food, since there is "real" food in their and the water bulks it out. The heat from the soup will also warm up the body well. Water takes a fair amount of energy to heat it up. I am drinking lots of tea at the moment too, any hot drinks might help like hot water lemon & honey.

    Protein satisfies hunger very well too, try some eggs for breakfast, I make pancakes by liquidising porridge oats, egg & milk.


  • #6
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,771 ✭✭✭✭fits


    yes I think I'll have to try more soupy and protein rich food.

    I agree with the others, I'm always hungry soon after my bowl of porridge. Dont know if that is because of the spoon of honey in it or something.

    Really dont want to put on weight with this but its difficult to argue with your appetite!


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  • #7
    El_Dangeroso
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    Get more sleep. Easier said than done I know but we really do need more sleep in winter than we do in summer, leptin levels rise during sleep and ghrelin levels dip = reduced appetite (linky). If this is interrupted you'll be ravenous all day. Try and notice it the next time you don't get enough sleep, it really has a powerful effect on appetite.


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