During meals/snacks, do you just eat until you feel full?

Question

I used to be very overweight, so of course back then I'd eat until I felt full, haha!

But ever since losing the weight, and now maintaining my weight, I almost never feel full. I almost always still feel hungry after meals, I suppose because my stomach had been stretched by my previous overeating.

When you sit down to eat a meal or snack on something, do you keep eating until you feel full

-or-

do you only eat a predetermined serving size and stop?

If you voted B, do you ever feel full?

washize · Accepted Answer

during snacks I eat a predetermined serving size.

during meals I eat until I am full. However, I mostly eat vegetables. I only eat meat 2-3 times a week because quality meat is EXPENSIVE! So my answer is BOTH

I used to be overweight as well until I got tired of being fat. I ate out of boredom and I ate allot of calorie rich foods.

when I eat, I like to feel full. I find myself snacking if I don't eat until I'm full. The reason we are told to eat "healthy" is because you can practically eat as many vegetables as you want and barely break past 150 calories.

I only count calories when it comes to carbs, protein, fruits, and bad foods. I'm extremely small framed but I'm 5"5. I make sure to consume no more than 1500-1600 calories a day. Sometimes I exercise, and sometimes I don't but this is what keeps me in a healthy weight range without exercise.

MILWJ · Accepted Answer

The only time I eat a predetermined serving size is if I'm really hungry but know the meal will be ready in a half hour or so, just to get rid of the discomfort but ensure that I am still able to eat :)

I eat very slowly so I feel full without eating that much. As a result I also get hungry very often.

OpenClose · Accepted Answer

I almost never eat until I'm full. I just eat until I'm not hungry anymore. Full is uncomfortable, and it makes me feel like a slob. Satisfied makes me want to get up and do stuff.

Of course, I'll also eat over the course of a few hours sometimes, whilst doing other things. I'll, say, get a pizza, and instead of eating it in a sitting, I eat a couple slices, then grab a slice every once in a while when I feel hungry again.

I don't like sitting at dinner tables and shoving food down my throat in close quarters to a bunch of other food-shovels. And this way, my stomach stays fairly small, and hopefully my metabolism high, since they body isn't rushing and turning most of the food into fat.

So I'm 6'2" and 160lb, if that means anything. Haven't been overweight in my life.

RedThread · Accepted Answer

The weird thing with me is that I barely get hungry so I never know if I should eat or not. Sometimes I eat a meal at a predetermined time because I feel like I should not because I'm hungry. I can go a whole day and eat only one small meal and not feel hungry. I think this contributes to my weight loss/gain cycle the most because in reality I don't think I need much but I still eat 3 meals a day because I feel I'm supposed to. I never know how much I should eat to become full because I wasn't hungry in the first place. There are times of weight loss (which I'm in now) when I barely eat one meal a day and get very active. It's also annoying when people in the past claimed I was anorexic because I don't have to eat much to get by.

6Paul11 · Answer

I eat a predetermined amount. I have a pretty strict diet and exercise routine that I try to maintain.

I often get hungry, but that's the price to pay. I drink lots of coffee, water, and zero calorie powerade to fill up.

2000 calories a day of anything I want.

Two hours of exercise at least five days a week.

DivaMonae · Answer

I eat until I feel full, once I'm full I regret eating that much.

I actually heard that if you take your time while eating your body will tell you when it's full, so you don't over eat, gain on the pounds, and get a tummy ache. But, of course I don't actually do that.

wallflowervulpine · Answer

Eat slower and you will actually feel more full without consuming as much. Also I know it takes approx. 20 minutes for your brain to register that your stomach is full.

I'm like you in the sense I eat until I feel like I'm like completely full, but I've never been overweight, but I try not to over due stuff and stop when I am contempt. I will admit I still binge eat a lot, but I try to compensate with extra workouts.

Anonymous · Answer

I have to stop myself (on certain meals) because I know I will regret it, for example, pizza, steak, heavy foods, I will literally be in pain if I ate those food til I was full or ate as much as I desired. With salads  or fruit I eat til I'm stuffed(Or til I'm satisfied), I just had half a watermelon for dinner last night.lol some foods digest well so I don't need to worry, But yeah... I wish I could eat pizza til I was stuffed..:)

confugirl · Answer

Mostly my portions are sufficient, so I just eat what I made for myself. If it doesn't turn out to be enough, I drink a bunch of water and see how I feel after an hour. If I'm not ridiculously hungry by then, I won't eat anything else.

toulouse · Answer

I eat predetermined size. to ensure adequate nutrition because I never feel truly hungry. if I waited fior hunger id eat once every three days.  which is OK for week or two. but eventually you just lose too much weight.

palek · Answer

I enjoy eating and I also like being hungry, cuzz it means I can eat some more. So most of the time I either eat til I vomit, or opt for Chinese. So, sometimes I feel full, but only briefly.

ManaX · Answer

I don't snack but at a meal I'll eat a portion that usually fills me up. I tend not to have seconds unless the food is really good. No point in going too far. I guess I'm closer to B.

Izzy2102 · Answer

I usually just eat until I'm full, not like stuffed but not hungry anymore. The only exeption is when I eat fast food, then I just have one small serving but then I eat again when I feel hungry

HaggardDiva · Answer

I eat until I feel full. There's a difference between feeling full and being stuffed. Most people eat until they are way past full. They just don't notice until they're stuffed.

just_tired · Answer

I used to eat until I was full, but when I started eating in 6-8 portions a day, because I started getting more serious with my workouts, I started eating until I wasn't hungry anymore.

xzinax2 · Answer

well if I'm eating fruit,i eat till I'm full,but if it's cooked-however much I've cooked. I'm mainly fruitarian though so yeah,most meals-till I'm full

COCOCHANEL · Answer

i tend to overeat and feel messed up. I always eat til I'm full.

humanbeing · Answer

I eat until I feel that now more. to the extent that even thinking of the same food makes me pass out. if I don't do this I can't sleep the whole night. if there is chicken I will lick the plate also. lick until it gets shiny

stillagoodgirl · Answer

I try to finish what's on my plate but once I'm full I don't stay full for very long and I'm not really hungry. I'm trying to gain weight atm but its not as easy as I thought!

Koldhearted · Answer

Depends.  If I'm at a restaraunt (spelling) I'll eat till full If I really like what I'm eating I'll eat till full  Other than that I eat till no longer hungry or pre determined size.

kitkat1991991 · Answer

I usually just cook for myself and eat how much I cook. If I cooked too much then I will eat until I am full.

lauramor · Answer

B I always have a predetermined serving size in all my meals but have a lot of snacks.

kairon156 · Answer

I eat what I make and tell I don't feel hungory any more. sometimes that does mean tell I get full.

Enideqa · Answer

I guess a mixture but I eat slowly to know when I am actually full.

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