Full - What is Wrong with me?

WindSock

All I have eaten today is a small roll with 2 sausages (8.30am), a yoghurt and a few bits of a trail mix and I am so stuffed and bloated. I feel awful.

I know the breakfast isn't healthy but it wasn't for me, it was for the hangover. Still though, not enough for me to be feeling like this.

And lately (the last 5 weeks or so) I have had to force myself to eat some breakfast which is highly unusual for me. I wake up feeling full. (all my bits are working though)

Thoughts?

EileenG

If you eat (or drink) late at night, you may not be hungry in the morning. If you are not hungry, I'd wait until you are before you eat.

WindSock

Oh ok. I thought the golden rule was to always eat some breakfast, no matter what.

EileenG

Personally, I think this is very over-rated.

They did surveys and found that fat people are more likely to skip breakfast than thin people, so they concluded that eating breakfast made you thin. They didn't ask if the fat people were deliberately skipping breakfast in order to try to save calories, or if they were thin before they started skipping breakfast.

There is a lot of evidence that mini-fasts of 12-14 hours are good for you, and certainly don't send your metabolism into the toilet, which is what breakfast skippers are often told.

My personal feeling is that you should eat when you are hungry, and not eat unless you are hungry. Back a generation ago, most people put in an hour or two of hard work feeding animals or lighting fires and other work before they ate breakfast. Eating as soon as you fall out of bed is a modern development.

By the way, a roll with two sausages adds up to a lot of calories. I'm not surprised you are feeling full.

Melia

You could try having dinner earlier the previous night, if possible?

I always try to have some breakfast - I generally don't feel hungry in the morning, but if I don't eat breakfast I end up eating badly for the rest of the day.

EileenG

If you know you are not an early morning eater, plan a good mid-morning snack meal. There's no reason the 11am coffee has to be accompanied by a muffin, it could just as easily be a pot of cottage cheese or even a tortilla and salad.

corkcomp

IMO one should adjust their evening eatting patters so that they ARE hungry in the mornings! if i eat at 11 pm im not but if i have a healthy dinner at 7 then i wake up feeling like breakfast, it works better for me like that

_Whimsical_

WindSock wrote: »

All I have eaten today is a small roll with 2 sausages (8.30am), a yoghurt and a few bits of a trail mix and I am so stuffed and bloated. I feel awful.

I know the breakfast isn't healthy but it wasn't for me, it was for the hangover. Still though, not enough for me to be feeling like this.

And lately (the last 5 weeks or so) I have had to force myself to eat some breakfast which is highly unusual for me. I wake up feeling full. (all my bits are working though)

Thoughts?

If you feel abnormally full or bloated for more than 12 days out of the month and you don't feel it's a result of dietary change then you should see your doctor. It can be an early warning sign of rare issues you should get looked at. It rarely is a problem but all the same it's a good idea to check into it if it's continuous.

WindSock

EileenG wrote: »

By the way, a roll with two sausages adds up to a lot of calories. I'm not surprised you are feeling full.

Actually it was 1 sausage sliced down the middle, come to think of it :pac:
And on one of those small mini baguette things.
Still though, i don't think that would add up to even 1/2 my daily allowance. I was full for the rest of the day but had a poached egg on toast for dinner at around 6 as I didn't want to be picky later on.

EileenG wrote: »

If you know you are not an early morning eater, plan a good mid-morning snack meal. There's no reason the 11am coffee has to be accompanied by a muffin, it could just as easily be a pot of cottage cheese or even a tortilla and salad.

My mid morning snack usually consists of yoghurt and a banana or apple.

Pembily

Pernickity wrote: »

If you feel abnormally full or bloated for more than 12 days out of the month and you don't feel it's a result of dietary change then you should see your doctor. It can be an early warning sign of rare issues you should get looked at. It rarely is a problem but all the same it's a good idea to check into it if it's continuous.

I haev to second what Pernickity says - it could suggest stomach issues!! Go to a dr asap!!

Corkcomp - I eat my last meal at 6, mostly dont eat after that and yet I am never hungry until about 11 in the morning!! It different for everyone, my sister and mother wake up starving!!!