Homemade vegetable soup works for me. Basically just a vegetable, chicken or beef stock with canned tomatoes, italian spices and every vegetable cut up I can think of. I sometimes add beans or chick peas for a bit of flavor and extra fiber. Veggies I'll add are: zucchini, green beans, carrots, cauliflower, onions, garlic, spinach, kale, broccoli.

I think the key thing is not to be tricked into thinking that low fat food is 'eating healthier'. It isn't. Fat keeps you full for much longer so you eat less overall. I load up on healthy fats like avocado and nut butters etc whilst cutting down on refined sugars.

My super easy go to lunch is a heap of shredded carrot with an avocado, tomatoes, peppers, and some kind of protein like tuna or chicken. But you need enough carrot to cover the plate. It makes me feel really full but it's also easy to make is ensures i eat my colors….

drink more water, less caffeine and throw in some herbal teas.

soups are also good at "filling you up"

What are you though, an automobile?

Steel cut oatmeal
Avocado slices
Pb and J half or whole sandwich
Pita chips or veggies and hummus

Salad, with fat and protein and a lot of greens. It takes so long to eat it that by the time I've gotten through all of it my hunger has been satisfied. The protein and fat stave off hunger for several hours.

Fage 2% plain Greek yogurt with jam mixed into it.

Anonymous wrote:I am trying to be more mindful of my eating. Nothing seems to fill my stomach. I feel like if I had some go to meals, lunches, snacks, I would be satisfied and lose some weight. Help.

1 or 2 bananas.

Steel cut oatmeal with peanut butter. My work schedule only allows me to eat lunch after 2pm and this keeps me full.

Chicken breast cut up and sauteed in a *small* amount of olive oil and seasonings, served over a bed of spinach.

OP here. I love food. So there. That said I am thin and trying to stay that way. Sometimes I would just love to have a goto meal that is so satisfying. I think I eat too many carbs, no staying power. I'm trying to evolve. Sue me.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to work on decreasing your appetite. Smaller portions... Otherwise you're screwed. How much does it take to fill you up??! You are not a gas tank. Eating is for nutritional purposes, not emotional ones. It sounds like you eat wayyyyy too much.

Does it really sound like all of that? Or are you projecting a bit?

It doesn't sound like that at all. PP is projecting more than a bit.

Milk.

People are so afraid of carbs and fat and anything processed that I feel like a lot of people over eat obsessing about what's healthful and trying to fill up without eating high calorie or high fat or high gluten or whatever foods.

I've always found that a good old fashioned PB and no sugar jelly (not the Splenda kind, just the no sugar added kind) on good quality whole wheat or whole grain bread is the perfect lunch. With maybe an apple or banana or carrot sticks. For some reason people think it's the worst lunch on the planet. But it's fast and easy and fills me up.

Anonymous wrote:You need to work on decreasing your appetite. Smaller portions... Otherwise you're screwed. How much does it take to fill you up??! You are not a gas tank. Eating is for nutritional purposes, not emotional ones. It sounds like you eat wayyyyy too much.

Does it really sound like all of that? Or are you projecting a bit?

Anonymous wrote:You need to work on decreasing your appetite. Smaller portions... Otherwise you're screwed. How much does it take to fill you up??! You are not a gas tank. Eating is for nutritional purposes, not emotional ones. It sounds like you eat wayyyyy too much.

Did you grow up in a box? People eat all the time for emotional reasons. Also, food is representative of culture--the good and the bad from celebrating with a birthday cake to becoming a fast food nation. The OP is trying to eat mindfully so I don't know where you derived that she eats too much.