Hi

I was just wondering if anyone has noticed the same response when eating.

I spent 3 weeks sugar free (before falling .. another story).

I noticed that especially for lunch, I was hungry so would eat.
After eating a "normal" size meal (eg a salad sandwich) even though I had eaten and walked away.
I found that my body and hunger pains actually got worse and "almost unbearable" it has been taking a good 40 minutes to distract my brain to something else to "fight" the hunger. Quite often using a 600ml water to assist.

I have found that once I fight through that feeling and it has gone I do not feel hungry for several hours.

Is there something Im missing in my understanding of what Im eating or is this a normal "stage" of getting rid of the sugar addiction.

Please take into account that yes, breakfast has been eaten in the morning, so I do not feel Im trying to skip meals.

regards
sb

Hello Scott and welcome
It seems to me, that if you are so hungry after lunch, that you are not eating enough saturated fat with your meal. It's the fat that makes for a "full up" feeling. Also, are you doing a lot of exercise?
David says that exercise will make us hungrier............the more we do, the more the body needs to make up for depleted energy.
Make sure you put plenty of butter on your sandwich, have a bit of full fat cheese in there. I keep cartons of full fat cream and whole milk yoghurt in my fridge especially for those 'still hungry' times after a meal. For me, it's the evening meal, I used to have desert afterwards and even after fourteen months fructose free, may still find a little hungering after dinner, so a few mouthfuls of yoghurt or cream will do the trick.
I'm not saying don't exercise, the body likes some exercise, I gardened this evening and lo and behold, a little extra hunger came in.
Also, maybe you simply aren't having enough to eat, I agree with John, that it does take time for the appetite control to come in...............with me, it took six months...........but it does start to work gradually and as long as you don't slip back into fructose eating again, you should be ok.
Best of luck on your journey, there are lots of people here and on the free Sweet Poison forum who will be delighted to share their experiences with you.
cheers
Freda

And another good filler, Scott is nuts, if I feel peckish, mid afternoon, I will have a handful of nuts and maybe an unsweetened organic cocoa with full cream milk. And, of course, nuts are very nice and fatty too.
That little combo will see me over to my dinner.
Mind you, lately, I haven't been needing this snack, tend to find I've forgotten about it and suddenly it's dinner time. So things changed gradually for me, everyone is different and I think that the younger one is, the quicker things will happen. Which is why, I think, it took so long for my appetite control to work for me. ................I am 70.
cheers
Freda