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what the fuck is with vegetables
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I'm currently making an effort to get all my carbs from fruit and vegetables.
Here is the thing.
Any time I eat fruit or vegetables, WITHOUT FAIL, I will be incredibly hungry less than an hour later. For lunch, I ate TWO BURGERS (no bun) and as much spinach, mixed salad and tomatos as I could fit on a plate (this salad was like a foot high). An hour later I was so hungry I wished I was dead, so I ate an apple. Mistake. I have honestly never been this hungry.
what the fuck is with vegetables what is their fucking problem
Here is the thing.
Any time I eat fruit or vegetables, WITHOUT FAIL, I will be incredibly hungry less than an hour later. For lunch, I ate TWO BURGERS (no bun) and as much spinach, mixed salad and tomatos as I could fit on a plate (this salad was like a foot high). An hour later I was so hungry I wished I was dead, so I ate an apple. Mistake. I have honestly never been this hungry.
what the fuck is with vegetables what is their fucking problem
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two beef patties on their own isn't a whole lot
IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE SUGGESTING
THAT YOU ARE MY STOMACH
check it, this is your stomach speaking
stop eating fuckin' vegetables
or at least eat something that isn't meat or greens in addition to what you're doing already
get some other stuff in there, like corn or peaches or something
Try this
FOUR burgers
six would probably make you feel full until you start to get indigestion
Have you been exercising or doing any unusually strenuous activities during the days you are having hunger issues with fruit?
If so, you need to make sure you're eating enough calories to make your standard 2k/day minimum PLUS whatever you burned during the activities.
breads and pastas expand when they hit the mush that is called your stomach, so they fill you up faster
burgers are denser, so you basically gotta fill the entire cavity with ground hamburger
..is my understanding
Let's say your hamburger patties are about 150 calories each.
2 hamburger patties and a mountain (say 5 cups) of chopped lettuce might be enough to make you feel full - that would be about 345 calories.
2 hamburger patties with buns would probably fill you up as well, but the total calorie content is closer to 600 calories. (Even a single slice of standard white bread has close to 70 calories - more than your entire mountain of lettuce!)
Anyway, I'm no diet expert, but my guess is you're hungry because you're imbibing way fewer calories. Might be easier/healthier to replace only part of your carb intake - say, take the tops off both burgers and leave the bottom buns, with half as much salad, or perhaps eat your salad, your burgers, and have a granola bar an hour later, etc.
Burgers are made from cows. Cows eat vegetables. When the burgers met the vegetables in your stomach, the cows ate all the vegetables and left you with nothing except cow poop.
But uh, why not get your carbs from carbohydrates?
Like bread, and pasta and etc?
Beacause all teh bullshit about vegetables alone will give you all your benefits isn't really true.
Try eating more starchy foods or something.
The most likely result of this would be Poop the consistency of Pottery Clay.
There are 3 options. One, eat more protein to counteract it. Yes, this means another burger patty, or more realistically, some beans or a soy product. Two, eat many more vegetables, and "snack" on them when you start to feel hungry. Three, eat your meals more slowly (think 30 minutes for what would normally take you 10-15 -- read a book while eating, for instance) and tough it out if you get hungry again.
But you make no mention of your diet prior to this change so we have no basis as to what could really help.
Then it might be easier to give advice.
I always think of my anima as ATHF Carl like figure hanging out in an armchair in my stomach. He yells when he doesn't get his way.
"Dude, WTF? I distinctly ordered fries. This Is Not Fries. You get your ass back in there and get me some goddamn fries, hokay? Are we good? Cause I can yell at you all day you grasseating motherfucker, all goddamn day. "
Basically, this is the guy I give a mental asskicking to, mostly because I'm terrified I'll turn into him. I vary between beating him, renovating his house and promising to upgrade the quality of his live action pron.
The proteins will keep you feeling full longer.
Also, diets all have long term effects, and we've yet to see what the long term effects of carb-cutting are.
And to resummarize: fruits and veggies supply only carbs, yes. They also have a lot of water in them. They are low in caloric content. Lots of it is sugary. You cut grains out, and you're gonna be hungry.
On a tangential note, I eat very little meat and have often have a funky feeling of not being satisified, while feeling full at the same time. If you eat a bunch of carbs, fruits, and veggies, you'll feel that way, I guess.
Does corn actually count as a vegetable? I was under the impression that it was more like a grain, since you can grind it up into meal and bake stuff with it. If corn qualifies as a "vegetable" under Tube's preferred diet, then fill up on corn-based baked goods, or something.
Corn, when still on the cob, is a vegetable.
Corn, when it is removed from the cob and dried, is a grain.
On a related note, did you know that the banana tree is an herb?
The largest herb in the world, actually.
There are much better options.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
in fact it would almost be highly advisable to get as much from those sources as an alternative to fruit
Fruits are loaded with sugar. Your body breaks that down really, really fast. When you've run out of sugar to break down, you go back into hungry mode. The amount of carbs you gained from eating all that sugar doesn't matter, your stomach only cares about full vs. not-full and now it's not-full.
So instead eat things with lots of fibre, or whole grains. Whole grains and complex carbs (such as those high in fibre) are much more difficult to break down so your stomach consumes them at a much slower pace. This results in a more even metabolism, and way less conversion of carbs to fat.
So go get some fucking lentils already.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
It's not the protein in nuts that make you feel full. It's the fat and the fiber.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
Still though, they are great for snacking. The fat in them is healthy fat (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated), so they are actually really good for you in moderate amounts (your body does need unsaturated fats for bodily functions such as hormone production and body temperature regulation).
As a source of protein though, you're right, lean meats are way better.
like a hundred chicken breasts
and a people burger
Nuts are a bit fatty and not the best source for *all* of your protein, but they are good for snacking as long as you measure them out of the container instead of just keeping the tub nearby and just constantly eating them. They make you less hungry, but it's hard to get full off of nuts.
Ultimately, what you're experiencing is the same reason the Atkins diet "works." If you only eat meat and fat, you're not supposed to feel as hungry so you eat less. Then you transition to meat and veggies when you're at your goal weight/size so you're not in ketosis for the rest of your life.
Your stomach will shrink on its own pretty quickly if you eat smaller meals, though. My stomach shrank pretty drastically in college, once I moved into an apt. by myself because I would go to bed hungry -- didn't keep snacks around and didn't feel like cooking anything at midnight. I went from being able to eat a supersize double quarter pounder to getting full off of a regular "whopper jr." (and switched from mcd to bk).
How long have you been doing this?
Flour and sugar are the worst things for you. Eat things that don't really have either. Fruit is good for you because of the anti-oxidants in some and the vitamins in most, but really they're all really high in sugar even if it is natural and if you want to cut the sort of carbs that turn straight into fat out of your diet, you don't want to exchange your steel cut oats for oranges and strawberries.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
ug ug ug ug ug
and spinach is really good stuff
all I'm saying really is that there are good carbs to be found outside of fruits and veggies and in fact many of those other carbs are way better than fruits in terms of good carbs vs. bad carbs.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
And yeah, diversify the foods :P google up a ratatouille recipe, and maybe some stirfry type things.