Anyone Else Fixated on Eating Volume?

Melancholy

Melancholy

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I noticed something about my eating habits in the last few months. I like to eat a lot of volume. In my weight-loss period over the last several months, I have adapted to this, and added tons of leafy greens, as well as veggies to my diet. These are both calorically light, and tend to make me feel full.

As I travel more, and eat out more for work, I noticed that these options are not available in a consistently healthy way. For example, the salads are covered in dressing, and the veggies are pan-fried basically in oil/ butter. You can ask for these two things on the side, but then the food tastes like crap. Since I am not interested in eating something I don't truley enjoy, I end up just eating something else.

That got me thinking. Fullness is your bodies way of basically saying, "I have had my nutritional requirements met" (I know that's an over-simplifiaction). That being said, If I eat something that has the same number of calories, will my body eventually be "full", or does the body get used to eating a certain volume before getting full?

For example. For breakfast I usually eat an egg white Omlette, with Bell Peppers, Mushrooms, and Canadien Bacon. I top it with Salsa and Avocado. It has 250 calories, and is quite large. On the road, 250 calories at Panera is a small breakfast sandwhich. Now, I eat the breakfast sandwhich (330 calories), and am not as satisfied at the end of the mean (in respect to fullness). Is this purely mental, or does my body need more volume to feel full? If I just need to stop eating after the sandwhich, and feel full 20 minutes later I am fine, and would be happy to do that, I am just wondering what the answer is!

Sorry for rambling, thanks for the help.

-Mellon
 
I am surprised your bacon breakfast if its large is only 250 calories. How much of these things is in your breakfast?
My breakfast of 1/2 cup of oats, 1 cup of milk and a piece of fruit is 414 calories.

Can you please say how much of each of the ingredients is in this breakfast? Cause its hard to visualise the size of the breakfast.

I also like a good sized meal. Its why i go for low calorie foods and eat a lot of vegies.

I don't know what its like in America, but i don't have too much trouble finding healthy options on any menu. I also feel ok about asking for slight variations too, like leaving the butter off a sandwich, or making me up some sushi without the mayonnaise, or choosing the grilled fish option and making sure there is lemon on the side. Or having the dressing on the side.
 
My Breakfast is as follows:

4 egg whites: ~120 calories
Canadien Bacon (2 slices) - 40 calories
Light Sour Cream: 20 calories
Avocado (1/3) ~ 50 calories
Salsa - 20 calories
Bell Peppers: - 20 calories

Total is about 270. I don't always use Avocado, in which case I add more diced Pepper
 
See that' weird because I just looked up avocado on nutrition data and found out that one avocado is 322 calories. Which makes one third, over 100 calories.

That said, i don't exactly know how much avocado you are eating because avocados are different sizes. So to be objective, i would either way it or measure it by the level measuring spoonful. That way there can be no question about how much i am using and if i want to find out, exactly how many calories are in it.

Even more weirdly there seems to be no such thing as bacon on nutritiondata.com let alone canadian bacon. I don't know what canadien bacon is either. Is it something special? Like has it got all the fat chopped off?

There is turkey bacon, bacon salad dressing and even meatless bacon. Wtf is meatless bacon?


anyway, that's got nothing to do with what your post is about.
 
canadien bacon is very lean ham. I use very small avocado's, weighed on a scale. I know to the 8th of an ounce how much I eat. I count my calories very well. My breakfast is about 250 calories. Stop trying to punch holes in the calories of my breakfast. Just for the sake of argument, lets say that it's 400 calories (it's not)
 
i am not actually trying to punch holes in your breakfast for the sake of an argument. I am trying to understand how big your breakfast is but you didn't give the relevant details. The number of calories does clarify the issue.

Although i was surprised how few calories you reported for 1/3 avocado.

This is not directed at you but i find it a bit frustrating when people talk about what they eat but are vague about how much they eat. Its the sort of think i feel i need to know in order to be able to understand the perspective being put forward.

As i said, 250 calories seems low for a big breakfast so perhaps i would not think it was a big breakfast. Sure there's a variety of different food there but you could be having a teaspoon of some of this stuff.
 
when I say "big" it's a subjective measurement.

The real question is:

Do our bodies gain eventual sateity from:

a) the calories
b) the volume of food
c) both (but if both, how long for the calories to register)
d) Jupiter
 
Melancholy, I know the feeling. I don't have a definitive answer, but I do know I have to eat a lot of "stuff" to feel full and not want anymore food (most of the time- at the moment I'm not very well so am craving things I shouldn't be having). I think volume definitely plays a role in feelings of satiety (although it differs between people- some people here seem to eat so very little and say they're full), but I also find different foods will satiate me in different ways (a massive pile of greens may fill me up- for half an hour- whereas something with a little bit of protein will keep me going much longer).
 
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