Not Hungry but that smells awfully good

[GeraldParticipant 3621]

This is kind of a rant, but why does food still smell so damn good and make you hungry when you know you are full and just finished eating? I know it is the fat content, the way it is prepared, etc. that makes it smell so good, especially with the processed crap that is so bad for you.. but why can’t my body get it together and go its own way on eating, letting me ignore the smells from the guy’s cubicle next door, since I just ate…

Now I need a cheeseburger.

No longer can we walk away, we must run. Remove the motive power.

[KeymasterKeymaster]

Gerald wrote:

why does food still smell so damn good and make you hungry when you know you are full and just finished eating?

It takes your body 20 minutes to tell your brain you’re “full”. TWENTY MINUTES.

When you stub your toe, the message goes to your brain before your toe knows, but a full stomach takes 20 minutes to register. You can overeat a lot in those 20 minutes.

Also it depends on what you ate. When your body really needed an apple but you fed it 2 bacon & egg sandwiches…… it will still tell you that you’re “hungry” because you didn’t give it the apple it needs. So now you will say “f~~~ it” and eat a donut someone brought to the office, when you should have just eaten an apple.

And after all that eating, your body STILL needs an apple.
So you’re gonna eat AGAIN.

That’s why there is an obesity epidemic.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[HitmanParticipant]

drink lots of water .
and use that 20 minute guideline key master spoke about.
keep healthy snacks around.
make it a routine to get bananas and almonds etc ,
that you can grab as a quick fix for the hunger.
pumpkin seeds are terrific for men.

[Mr. ManParticipant 2916]

Gerald, I’m experiencing this very food dilemma right now.

At the moment, I’m spending a few vacation days in a small town on the shores of Lake Superior. And whenever I come up to this part of the country, I make sure to order fresh-caught whitefish for dinner. But the whitefish I had last night was so superior to anything I’d ever had before, that I was fantasizing about eating more WHILE I was still eating it. I was thinking how I could plan all of my vacations around being able to eat this mind-blowing delicacy morning, noon and night. Yeah, it was that good.

It wasn’t just the way it was prepared that made it so damned good (parmesan crusted and baked), but it was the quality of the fish itself. I’m wondering if all of the other whitefish I’ve ever had was caught from the shallower and warmer, lakes Michigan or Huron, rather than the deep and cold Lake Superior.

I’m ready to head out the door of my cheap motel and go for a hike in the nearby National Park. By the time I come out the smoked fish stores should be open, which means I can buy smoked whitefish!

Food, it’s what’s for dinner!

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