180 - "I literally feel like I am eating so much and just don't feel full!"

The Dear Body Podcast

Jessi Jean

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.7 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

A few weeks ago, I threw up a Q&A box on my Instagram stories, and one submission was an immediate screenshot and save moment: “I literally feel like I am eating so much and just don’t feel full.” (thank you to the woman who submitted it) I knew right then and there this had to be a pod episode. I’ve been there—three different times in my life, actually—and I was clueless as to why this was happening. So today on the pod, I chat about my experiences with this feeling, what I ended up learning about why you can be eating enough and still not feel full, and how I eventually got to a place where I could feel and honor my fullness with very little effort. You'll also hear me chat about: The various physical, psychological, behavioral, and biological reasons you can eat and still may not feel your fullness My clean eating / high volume foods era My transition to flexible dieting and macro counting and how it initially felt liberating until it became suffocating My doubts with intuitive eating What the beginning of my intuitive eating journey felt like Extreme hunger and feeling insatiable The journey of rebuilding trust with food and my body How I eventually was able to feel my fullness ____ Subscribe to my free newsletter, Weekly Wisdom for a Well-Lived Life, for more tips and to be the first to know when new episodes drop. Visit jessijean.com/newsletter to join. ______ Stay connected: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessijeannn Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jessijeannn Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/jessijeannn Email: [email protected]

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0:00.0	So you get to the end of a meal and maybe you're biologically full, like you physically feel it, or maybe you don't feel physically full, but you've eaten what feels like is more than enough, like you should be done.
0:12.1	But there's this pull and there's this desire to eat more that's still there.
0:16.4	And then the mental tug of war starts where your brain is kind of going in all different
0:22.3	directions and you're having thoughts like, I really don't need anymore. And then another thought
0:27.3	pops up that's like, but a little more won't hurt. I'll just have a few more bites or just one
0:31.5	little sweet treat or just a small second serving. And then that one little bite or that small
0:36.2	tree or that second serving turns into more.
0:38.3	And maybe now you're overly full or you're just frustrated with yourself. And not only do you
0:42.9	might feel physically unwell, but mentally you start to feel kind of shitty. And then there's
0:47.2	the guilt and the disappointment and the thoughts of why can't I ever stop at a moderate amount?
0:52.1	Why can't I just eat balanced? Obviously, this experience and these
0:55.7	feelings are frustrating and they're confusing. And I think it can honestly bring up this sense of
1:02.3	I'm not in control and I can't trust my body. Like it's a little destabilizing in the journey
1:07.7	to improve your relationship with food when you're having this experience because
1:11.2	it can bring up a lot of doubt and it can make you feel like maybe I'm not doing this whole
1:15.7	food thing right or this whole trying to improve my relationship with food thing right. And so
1:20.8	I want to share with you some of the reasons as to why this happens and why it's actually
1:26.4	sometimes a very normal part of healing your
1:30.2	relationship with food, if that's the journey that you're on. I think if I would have known
1:34.3	why this happens when I was going through my own struggles, it would have reduced a lot of the
1:38.7	fear and a lot of the anxiety.
1:47.0	Welcome to the Dear Body podcast.
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