3 Reasons You Always Want To Eat Even When Full [& How To Stop!]

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do you feel like you always want to eat even when you're full even when you've just eaten even when you have a stomachache from eating past fullness don't worry i got you in this video i'm going to share with you three reasons as to why you always want to eat even when full by the end of this video you will be able to know which of these reasons is causing your 24 7 desire for food and you will know exactly what to do about it to get your brain space back no more always wanting to eat if you're excited to finally break that magnetic pull towards food and get on with living your life thinking about food a normal amount then get excited be sure to here where we talk about all things intuitive eating and having no food rules be sure to give this video a like and leave a comment and let me know which of these three reasons is your reason for always wanting to eat are you ready for this okay let's dive in the first reason that you always want to eat is that you're likely not eating enough now this is a super common one especially for us with a long history of dieting and following food rules if we don't eat enough our bodies will begin to fixate on food and we will think about it often okay this is a way for our bodies to essentially cry out for the energy that they need the human body wants to maintain homeostasis or an equilibrium or stability and that includes homeostasis in our energy intake so if it senses that we're not eating enough it will essentially send you signals to eat more get the energy that it needs so one example of this is through hormone signaling so there's leptin and ghrelin which are hunger hormones that the body regulates to regulate our appetite and our desire for food so leptin is a fullness hormone and ghrelin is a hunger hormone that's just one way that our bodies do that there's lots of different ways now one popular study called the minnesota semi starvation study mouthful i know actually showed this in action where men who were included in the study which was essentially the equivalent of putting them on a quote-unquote normal diet today became obsessed with food so it's not just a phenomenon that happens when you're starving it can even be from a more moderate deficit beyond where your body is trying to regulate your energy intake too now i'm not necessarily talking about oops i forgot to pack a snack or i didn't have a strong appetite so i had a lighter lunch i'm talking more about those long term eating less than what your body wants in the larger sense i eat dieting right that semi starvation even if you think you are eating enough food you might not if you are comparing your intake to someone else and saying well i eat as much as them so i must be fine that's not really an accurate assessment energy intake needs between individuals can differ so much and that even differs day to day and just keep in mind that you can't see someone else if they are obsessing over food or not we have to do what feels good to us and not compare to others now another thing to consider here is that maybe you are eating enough volume so you're physically feeling full but you're not eating enough energy so sometimes this idea of volumetrics which i have a whole video on that i can link for you such as having a giant salad with very little calories to get physically fill your stomach but provide a little energy well studies have shown that volume of consumed food had a small and short effect on satiety so meaning maybe you'll feel full immediately after your giant bowl of iceberg lettuce but your body will quickly realize this is faux fullness and that the hunger it's gonna come in hot like i said our bodies are smart and they will know when they need more energy if this is you you're just not eating enough for your body when you finally let yourself eat it might feel like you're eating a lot and i want you to know that this is normal and i want to explain to you why so pretend right now that you're sucking air through a straw okay you're getting some air but not enough when you finally remove the straw and let yourself take a full breath it's probably gonna be a big breath right you gotta kind of make up for the time that air was restricted and you weren't getting enough but after a while your body gets used to it and realizes oh cool air isn't restricted anymore i'll start breathing normally again i've made up for what i was lacking same thing with food gorgeous okay moral of the story here is we need to be eating to satisfaction understanding how to do this can be a whole topic in itself and i have tons more videos here on this channel that i can link for you in the description to help with that and that's exactly what i teach in the society it's all about learning to interpret our hunger and fullness and satisfaction cues and breaking our food rules so the second reason you might be always wanting to eat is because you are restricting or limiting certain foods so for example maybe you weren't in that first category you're eating enough overall energy but you're trying to eat hashtag low carb right and you are finding yourself thinking about food all the freaking time even if you are full or maybe you find yourself thinking about certain types of foods such as sweets if you are like donate the sweets but you always find yourself craving the sweets then it's likely the limitations that you're placing on the sweets they are likely causing you to want more of them so you know how we tell a kid not to press a big red button and literally all they want to do is press it yeah the same thing with food and yes it happens to adults basically we all instantly turn into five-year-olds so this really goes down to not a lack of willpower but it goes down to a neurobiological level such as increasing a neurotransmitter called neuropeptide y which is especially associated with the drive to want to eat carbs now i talk about this more in my video on carb cravings and i can link that for you not only does limiting access to food cause us to think about them more but setting limits or even deeming them as bad or unhealthy can make us also eat more of them when we do allow ourselves to have them so one study that showed dieters those who deemed the milkshake bad or said that they could only have so much actually drink more of a milkshake versus non-dieters in the same setting so some people call this the what the hell effect like whoa crap i'm eating this quote-unquote bad thing like a milkshake which is totally not bad by the way that's what diet culture wants you to believe so what the hell might as well get it while i can right studies actually show that intuitive eaters those with no food rules which is what i teach and preach here on this channel and teach step by step inside of the society actually are shown to have healthier nutrient intakes despite setting any food rules they have wider nutrient intakes okay if your fear of getting rid of your food rules and leaving diet culture in the dust is that you won't want to eat clinical healthy and you'd only want milkshakes then listen to this women and men in the top intuitive eating quartile actually consumed more fruits and vegetables than those who were in one of the lower intuitive eating quartiles so basically those who didn't have food rules who saw food neutrally who weren't dieting ate more fruits and vegetables than those who weren't as intuitive as free didn't have as much food freedom and no food rules moral of the story here diet culture telling us if you don't stay on your diet or chronicle lifestyle you're only going to eat junk food it's bs that's how diet culture keeps us handing over our hard-earned cash to them it's just not true i have a quiz that talks about how to break your food rules and to stop seeing food as good or bad that i can link for you in the description of this video remember food rules are not just i let myself eat this i don't let myself eat that but it also includes our feelings about food such as steaming food healthy or unhealthy good or bad those are food morality rules and we also got to break them to stop thinking about food and always wanting to eat okay take that quiz if you feel like you have food rules or don't see food neutrally it's going to be super helpful the third reason you always want to eat is because of emotional reasons this one is also super common if you find yourself wanting to eat in the absence of feeling physical hunger so it's a common reason for people who always want to eat even when full here's why so when we finish a meal or reach fullness it's sad right just like when we finish a good book a netflix series or when the super cute puppy your petting walks away from you sometimes we eat pest fullness to avoid the uncomfortable feelings of sadness that we experience after a meal it's not just emotional eating from i'm feeling stressed so i'm gonna eat all the cookies right it could be the sadness of the meal being finished so again sometimes we might eat past that fullness point to avoid feeling that sadness of the meal being done but it kind of backfires because we feel worse off and we're still sad the meal is over and now we have a stomachache from stuffing ourselves to the brim not good right the sadness that we feel when we get full is normal but it's also fleeting and i mean think about how many more times we have to enjoy a delicious meal switch that sadness to almost like getting excited feel gratitude over the enjoyable food that you have and if it was super delicious plan two have it again plan to replicate the dish that you ate at the restaurant or with the vacation that you were on this can kind of prevent that sadness of missing out on the meal and feeling you have to eat it all now right other emotional reasons like i've said could be because you are stressed or you're anxious or you're wanting comfort these are also going to backfire because while it might be a momentary escape from those things it's not lasting and again we wind up still having those feelings to deal with and tummy troubles now it's not bad to enjoy food as a pick-me-up okay heck i do this but here's the thing it's about knowing that that food the cookie the ice cream the chips it's not gonna fix our emotions so eating beyond comfort what will that really do for us like really will it really help it's okay to enjoy things for a pick-me-up but it won't fix it okay the key here is to be able to firstly identify our emotions which can be hard in itself then we need to find constructive coping mechanisms for those emotions so those are the three reasons you might always want to eat even when full so take a second and think about them and i want you to comment below with which one of these reasons is your reason okay and guess what it could also be multiple of those reasons at once so here those are again number one you're not eating enough number two you're restricting certain foods or limiting them and number three you are searching for emotional comfort now that you know the reason or reasons you can now use this information discussed in this video to help you overcome them and to get some of that mental space back that food stole from you if you're needing more guidance as to how to overcome these things or you're looking for the best supportive intuitive eating community out there then be sure to check out the society this is where i do all of my coaching teach you everything step by step and you literally have the best supportive community out there you learn how to make peace with food become an intuitive eater and live with no food rules step by step i know what it feels like to obsess over food and i hope this video can ease some of that for you because you deserve a life where you can not always want to eat even when full and you can make room for other things like enjoying and living life if you like this video and found it helpful be sure to give it a thumbs up 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