Feeling hungry after "keto" meal?

ooter

I've been trying my best to eat more low carb lately and dabbling with very low/zero carb meals but I'm finding I'm feeling more hungry after these meals than any other meals and fairly shortly after I've eaten them.
During the week I had eggs,crab meat and goats yogurt for my evening meal and felt really hungry about an hour later, and less than an hour ago I had eggs, bacon and avocado and I feel hungry again already. It was my first meal of the day, I had coffee with some butter around 10 o clock this morning (awake since around 0830) and for the following few hours I didn't feel as hungry as I do now.
Anyone know what might be causing this?

Alf Veedersane

Any idea how many calories are in what you ate today?

ooter

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Any idea how many calories are in what you ate today?

I've honestly never been one for counting calories.
A quick Google tells me roughly 300 cals for the eggs, maybe 500 for the bacon and maybe 150 for the avocado, so about 1,000 in total.

Mellor

ooter wrote: »

I've honestly never been one for counting calories.
A quick Google tells me roughly 300 cals for the eggs, maybe 500 for the bacon and maybe 150 for the avocado, so about 1,000 in total.

How much of each did you actually eat?
The above would be 5 eggs, 250g bacon, and maybe 100g avocado.

ooter

Mellor wrote: »

How much of each did you actually eat?
The above would be 5 eggs, 250g bacon, and maybe 100g avocado.

Google told me 500 calories for around 100g of bacon, 310 for 200g of eggs and 160 calories for 100g of avocado.

Alf Veedersane

ooter wrote: »

Google told me 500 calories for around 100g of bacon, 310 for 200g of eggs and 160 calories for 100g of avocado.

Did you weigh the bacon, eggs and avocado?

ooter

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Did you weigh the bacon, eggs and avocado?

No, half a pack of 200g (10 rashers) bacon, 3 eggs and half a large avocado.

Mellor

ooter wrote: »

No, half a pack of 200g (10 rashers) bacon, 3 eggs and half a large avocado.

100g Denny bacon is 194 cals, 3 eggs is about 210 cals, and half an avo is 120cals.
524 cals. Not a small meal or anything, but If you're under estimating total intake it might explain when your hungry.

Alf Veedersane

That's strange. Most entries on MyFitnessPal have 100g of rashers at <250 kcals.

Anyway, drink more water. People often mistake thirst for hunger.

ooter

Fair enough, as I said I've never paid much attention to calories.
I was expecting to feel full for ages but was surprised at the opposite.
I drink tonnes of water by the way.

mathie

ooter wrote: »

Fair enough, as I said I've never paid much attention to calories.
I was expecting to feel full for ages but was surprised at the opposite.
I drink tonnes of water by the way.

How long have you been trying low carb?

ooter

mathie wrote: »

How long have you been trying low carb?

About 6 weeks I'd say. Most of the time I'd eat protein with some low carb (fibrous) veg and I'm fine but I definitely see/feel a different response with a low carb (low fibre) protein/fat rich meal. It seems I have an insulin spike when eating those type of meals.

uncle_sam_ie

You need to eat more fat and less protein. Just add loads of butter on those veggies.

ooter

uncle_sam_ie wrote: »

You need to eat more fat and less protein. Just add loads of butter on those veggies.

I do that when I'm eating veg, but avocado, egg and bacon has no veg and plenty of fat.