Re: Pasta and weird experience

[Guest guest]

I have *heard* that pasta can increase your appetite. Don't know if it's true or not.

Proverbs 31

Subject: Pasta and weird experienceTo: "Intuitive Eating" <IntuitiveEating_Support >Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 1:55 PMSo I had pasta yesterday evening and leftovers today. Both times I

really drooled about it and it tasted just fine.

And both times I overate, felt full but not satisfied.

I wonder why that is. It's not always the case. Sometimes I have the

same problem with rice dishes. I want it, I eat it, it tastes really

good, I feel full - but I'm not really satisfied and want something

else. Or more of it even though I'm full.

Regards

s.

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[Guest guest]

What flashed in my mind was perhaps your body is trying to tell you

that pasta or rice is an 'incomplete' (protein component) and to

continue so that you can get the 'other' part? It would be interesting

to find if eating beans or corn with rice could overcome that? Just a

thought.

Katcha

IEing since March 2007

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> So I had pasta yesterday evening and leftovers today. Both times I

> really drooled about it and it tasted just fine.

>

> And both times I overate, felt full but not satisfied.

>

> I wonder why that is. It's not always the case. Sometimes I have the

> same problem with rice dishes. I want it, I eat it, it tastes really

> good, I feel full - but I'm not really satisfied and want something

> else. Or more of it even though I'm full.

>

> Regards

> s.

>

[Guest guest]

I don't know that pasta " increases " your appetite, but since it

doesn't require a lot of intense chewing, you can eat a lot more of

it before those " fullness " signals kick in. I think it's easier to

overeat too when you don't have much variety to the dish. I find I

eat less macaroni and cheese when I put some slivers of canadian

bacon or ham in it.

The book " Mindless Eating " is an interesting read because they deal

with just those sort of things - for instance, that we eat more when

a candy dish is on the desk, instead of a short walk across the

office.

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> Subject: Pasta and weird experience

> To: " Intuitive Eating " <IntuitiveEating_Support >

> Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 1:55 PM

>

> So I had pasta yesterday evening and leftovers today. Both times I

> really drooled about it and it tasted just fine.

>

> And both times I overate, felt full but not satisfied.

>

> I wonder why that is. It's not always the case. Sometimes I have the

> same problem with rice dishes. I want it, I eat it, it tastes really

> good, I feel full - but I'm not really satisfied and want something

> else. Or more of it even though I'm full.

>

> Regards

> s.

>

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[Guest guest]

Katcha wrote:

> What flashed in my mind was perhaps your body is trying to tell you

> that pasta or rice is an 'incomplete' (protein component) and to

> continue so that you can get the 'other' part?

That was my idea, too. It's only interesting that I have that effect

only from time to time. Besides I ate the pasta with pesto (fat) and

parmesan (protein). I think it might have to do with what July said as

well.

Maybe I just had the drive to overeat because after eating pasta so

often during my stay in Switzerland I didn't have it for several weeks.

Now that I was really drooling about it again after not wanting to have

it for a while, maybe I overate because of this.

Regards

s.

[Guest guest]

july651 wrote:

> I think it's easier to

> overeat too when you don't have much variety to the dish. I find I

> eat less macaroni and cheese when I put some slivers of canadian

> bacon or ham in it.

Didn't some diet gurus say that an abundance of variety makes us eat

more and that a lack of variety makes food " boring " ? Lol.

However, I think that this might be the reason. A bowl of some mix

doesn't seem to be as satisfying as a plate with several foods on it.

I usually mix rucola into the pasta but couldn't get it this time. Maybe

the pasta dish just seemed too... plain? I don't know.

Regards

s.

[Guest guest]

That sounds quite realistic to me. I know I have mini-binge type of

reactions to something that I haven't eaten in some time. It just

tastes SO GOOD, I don't want to stop eating (tasting really) it!! Yes

I know I can have it another time, but at that moment its WONDERFUL so

why not enjoy it totally? :)

ehugs, Katcha

IEing since March 2007

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> Maybe I just had the drive to overeat because after eating pasta so

> often during my stay in Switzerland I didn't have it for several weeks.

> Now that I was really drooling about it again after not wanting to have

> it for a while, maybe I overate because of this.

>

> Regards

> s.

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