Why You Feel Hungry All The Time

Episode 123: Always hungry, even when you swear you’ve eaten “properly”? That nagging appetite can feel like your body is working against you, but it’s often doing the opposite: sending signals that something is missing. We get honest about how easy it is to fall into the constant-snacking loop, especially when life is busy, stress is high, and the cupboard is calling during boring admin.

We break down the most common causes of constant hunger through a practical wellbeing lens: metabolism types, blood sugar dips, and what happens when you do a lot but don’t fuel to match the demand. We talk about why ultra-processed foods keep you coming back for more, why protein makes such a difference to satiety, and how a simple food diary can reveal the gaps fast. You’ll also hear why “hunger” can actually be thirst, why eating too quickly backfires, and how the 20-minute satiety delay catches so many of us out.

Then we widen the lens: sleep debt and sugar cravings, alcohol and the next-day ravenous feeling, perimenopause appetite shifts, stress and cortisol, medication side effects, and even gut microbiome imbalances like Candida that can drive intense sugar cravings. We finish with realistic first steps for better appetite control and steadier energy, including aiming for 20 to 30 grams of protein at breakfast and building meals that support blood sugar balance.

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Welcome And Far Too Fabulous

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Welcome to Forty Fabulous. Fabulousness and redefined wellness. Get ready for some quickliness, inspiration, candy chat, and humour as we journey together towards empowered well-being. Let's dive in! Hello, hello, and welcome to this week's episode of the Far Too Fabulous Podcast. Do you know why it ends up why I end up singing like that? It's because I want to be very clear that I'm saying far too fabulous rather than farti fabulous, which I'm.

SPEAKER_02 0:36

I did notice that a farti fabulous uh slipped into one of the descriptions recently.

SPEAKER_01 0:42

Yeah, it does make me laugh every time. Yeah, we were not thinking that when we thought about this name. Does it does it sound like we're saying farti fabulous?

SPEAKER_02 0:51

Anyway, we could be farti fabulous because you know a lot of women I'm quite vegetarian.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Vegetarian. Fully vegetarian. Pretty much vegetarian.

SPEAKER_01 1:08

What are we talking about today? I don't know. Do you know what I was doing? But as I was watching, so we may have told you this before, but at the very beginning, we have to stay silent for 10 seconds, and it's something to do with um editing, but we pretend we know what we're doing and we've got no idea what we do, really. So I was sat there watching the timer go down and I completely forgot what we were doing. I was like, I'm just watching the timer going. It was like when I was driving to your house today, and I was just driving down the road. I forgot where I was going. It's just drivers having a lovely time in the car, it was quiet, it was warm. I was having a nice time. But I thought maybe I could use that for my um for my one minute sitting and doing nothing for my do nothing challenge.

SPEAKER_02 1:51

I've got I've got to do my minutes today. I don't know when this episode's going out, but we're in the middle of our challenge at the moment when we're recording this, aren't we?

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Yeah, yeah. So if you don't know what we're talking about, come into the far too fabulous Facebook group and there is a do nothing challenge in there. It's totally for free. You get to

The Do Nothing Challenge

SPEAKER_01 2:10

just work from day one to day seven, increasing the amount of time that you do nothing, quite frankly. So, yeah, it's always gonna be there. So do come and enjoy it. However, what we are talking about today is something that I say very regularly, and I think now that we're speaking about it, I'm gonna be a bit more conscious and a bit more intentional about it. However, how many times do you hear yourself say I'm always hungry?

SPEAKER_02 2:38

Or why am I always hungry?

SPEAKER_01 2:40

Yes, another one is hungry. Why am I always hungry?

Constant Hunger And What It Means

SPEAKER_01 2:43

What is wrong with me? Yeah, yeah. It's so interesting. I hear it so regularly, I say it quite regularly, and I just thought it would be really interesting to just talk around the subject because there are so many, there are there is a lot we can do about it, isn't there?

SPEAKER_02 3:00

Yeah, there is, and there are lots of reasons why we feel hungry all the time. So I think the first one is that if you're somebody that naturally has that fast metabolism, and so you do like your blood sugars are more likely to drop more quickly, and you do burn through your energy and nutrients, and there are actually the percentage of people in a fast metabolism, because I cover this on the hair test, is really low. Children tend to be in a fast metabolism in their first few years, up to about age seven or a bit older. They're in a fast metabol metabolism because they are growing and developing, there's a faster rate of turnover through everything nutrients, the cell, turnover, etc. But as adults, we should actually be naturally in a slower metabolism because we should be into conserving energy and regeneration. That's and there's reasons for that. Oh, interesting.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

Yeah. So when we're doing things like building muscle and eating higher protein, all that sort of thing, maybe with a view to boosting our metabolism, could that sometimes be detrimental?

SPEAKER_02 4:14

No, not necessarily. It's slightly different. So within so we're talking about how the cell is working with regards to the usage of nutrients and making energy rather than that metabolism that people tend to think about, oh, how easy it is for me to gain or lose weight. Yeah. It's it's slightly different. So within the slow metabolic type, if you build muscle and you're working on those things, you can lift yourself up to the top of the slow metabolic type rather than be at the bottom where you are in that everything's just really slow, detox is slow, digestion is slow, cellular repair is slow, energy is is not being produced as much as you as you would like. So the people that are naturally in the fast metabolic type tend to be the ones that are very slight, they are very slim. Just naturally. Yeah, yeah. And they tend to have this situation where because they do rev at a slightly higher rate, yeah, that they use up their nutrients and energy more quickly. Therefore, they often are hungry all the time because they need that top-up, otherwise, their blood sugars drop too low. Yeah. Having said that, you've got to eat properly, otherwise, especially if you're in that fast metabolic type, if you don't give yourself the right nutrition, it will keep signalling you to be hungry to go and eat something because it's looking for the gaps. Yeah. And it doesn't expect you to go and get a packet of crisps or a couple of biscuits, just thinking that you're gonna go and get something that's gonna give it its the nutrition it's the energy, yeah, that it's after.

SPEAKER_01 5:50

Oh, that's that's really interesting. And so, what about for people that are not naturally built that way?

SPEAKER_02 5:57

Yeah, so so if you are what I would term pretty normal, yeah, like the normal rate at which we make energy, etc., the most important thing is that we have given our body the right nutrition to make our energy, and to make energy, we don't just need sugar, we need the cofactors, remember, to make enough energy to do the things that we want to do. So if we're doing a lot but we're not fueling ourselves properly, we're gonna be more hungry. That makes sense, right? Yeah, because the body's gonna be, oh, I'm in a bit of a deficit here. Signal, signal to the being, please go and top up because I've just done a 5k run and then I've got Zumba later or whatever it is, and

Fuel Quality Protein And Snack Traps

SPEAKER_02 6:45

I've not got enough fuel. That kind of makes sense from that perspective. That I think that's quite a key one, actually. I think there is a tendency to not give your body the right ingredients for energy production whilst doing a lot. So if you are doing a lot but you're not fueling to meet the demands, then your body's gonna signal for you to eat. So you're gonna feel hungry. If you are doing a lot, yeah, and you've got high demands on your energy and your body, yeah, but you're not fueling, what do you think your body's gonna do? You're gonna be constantly want you to eat, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

Yeah, because it's looking for those ingredients, yeah. And so that's interesting also because I guess if you are so you're active, you're you're craving sort of fuel, you're then grabbing the wrong fuel, so you're constantly going, I'm hungry, I'm hungry, because you're not getting the right nutrition in. It's gonna keep that cycle going, isn't it? Because you're not you're just not fulfilling those needs, and you're also then eating, maybe we so we're gonna assume you're eating things like ultra-processed foods that have got all the sugars, all the salts, all the horrible fats in, which are then going to make you even hungrier. Yeah, because they've got all that technology. We've talked about this before, haven't we?

SPEAKER_02 8:08

Yeah, that will definitely put you in a state of feeling more hungry because your body's literally looking for that nutrition. Yeah, but you could also be eating fairly healthy, but you've got something missing. Say you've got a high demand on a nutrient for another reason, yeah. You're in perimenopause, yeah, and your body's just diverted that nutrient because it needs it to make some progesterone because there's not enough there. And you need more of that, and you might need that to make energy in your cell, then maybe it's looking for an additional something, yeah. But the body only knows to signal your hungry and sugar cravings, salt sometimes, but mostly sugar. Yeah. Because again, it don't expect you to go down the shop or in your in your cupboard with the packed lunch stuff in it. You know that one.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

Expect you to take a chunk out of a sweet potato or something.

SPEAKER_02 9:03

Yeah. Especially to go forage for some berries, right?

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Yeah, no, absolutely. That's really interesting, isn't it? And I mean, so there are so many other reasons. A really simple one. So, as a solution, if you like, to that, is that if somebody's experiencing that is maybe to just have a play around with the different types of foods that they are having to be able to provide what the body is after, if if that is you, if you keep feeling like you are hungry and you're sat there going, but I've got you know a healthy dose of protein, I've got my fibre, I've got my vegetables, what the heck is going on? Maybe you need to just move that around around just a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 9:48

Yeah, yeah. Although I think that scenario is probably more rare than any of the other scenarios. So most of the time, if somebody says that, I had this with a lady recently, got her to do the food diary, you know how the food diary is really telling. Yeah, and then she could literally see herself where the gaps were. Yeah. And she said, I didn't even comment on it. I just said, What has this writing this food diary shown you? And she said, I'm not eating enough protein. Brilliant. And I said, No, you're not, and that's gonna have an impact on your energy and your hunger and all of that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

It a protein, I even though I know this, I am still surprised at what an impact it has on that I'm always hungry. It really, really does make my like create that space between my meals and stop me from snacking to the point that I don't even think about it. Like, even if I'm bored, which bored for me is sat on my desk doing boring shit like emails, I mean I would rather stick pins in my eyes, and it sends me running to the cupboard because I am so bored. And if I have had my like my sweet potato and egg meal thing that I've made for you, if I've had my like my homemade granola that I might, if I had if I've had something like that, it doesn't even enter my mind, and that's when you know you've kind of hit the sweet spot, right?

SPEAKER_02 11:21

Yeah, yeah, literally, but also don't forget that when you're bored or you're looking for some relief from something, food is such a draw, isn't it? So you might actually you might not be hungry, it might just be a a habit or a boredom thing or a stress relief or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 11:41

Yeah, that's really interesting. I mean, like it's

Boredom Stress And Habit Eating

SPEAKER_01 11:44

really difficult, isn't it? Because if you have like hit all your nutrition goals in the morning, for instance, then you are doing your boring admin stuff. The fact that that is it's such a strong pull to you is just but I mean I guess it's an awareness thing, isn't it, as well? And then you've got to be aware as you as you find yourself sauntering off to the cupboard. You're like, what am I doing?

SPEAKER_02 12:08

Yeah, get back there, yeah, go and have a walk or do something else, yeah. If it's a habit or something, or you're looking for I I have to work on that myself actually. I do struggle with that. Like if I'm in a day where I'm seeing lots of clients and I am set up my computer, I do make sure that I I always do my downward dog thing before I go down for lunch, things like that. Yeah, but when I'm looking for that break from what I'm doing, I could easily, easily go eat something. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:41

Or just or there's something you don't want to do, or it's hard, like like I don't know, it's some sort of technology thing, and you're like, I don't know how to do this. I just eat something. I'm gonna eat something, yeah. And even it's I mean, like, I don't because I don't trust myself, I don't have terrible things in the house most of the time, but even like you know, grabbing more than a couple of handfuls of of nuts each time you go down there and things, it just it it all adds to it.

SPEAKER_02 13:06

It melts up, yeah, it does. I'm terrible for doing that, grabbing handfuls of walnuts or pecan nuts or cashew nuts or whatever is. Yeah, because they're good for you, right? But they are also they are they are a little bit filling, so they do kind of eke it out a little bit, but yeah, better than going and eating a couple of biscuits, but still a lot of the time if I do that grabbing thing, if I actually put my paws in, do I actually need those? Yeah, no, I don't no, no, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

Another really, really simple thing is are you thirsty?

SPEAKER_02 13:42

Yes, again, the body gets confused, it doesn't know, it sends the wrong signal. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:49

So that I think that's a really good first line of defence. If you're like, I feel hungry, I don't think I've it it wasn't very long ago that I've eaten.

SPEAKER_02 14:00

Perhaps

Thirst Slow Eating Sleep Debt

SPEAKER_02 14:01

you just need a big glass of water, yeah, and then you have to wait a certain amount of time for the brain to catch up. And this is the other thing, you know, that signal from the stomach to the brain takes 20 minutes because actually your body thinks that you were gonna take that long over eating. But how many people hoover their food in within a matter of minutes?

SPEAKER_01 14:26

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:27

And then they're on to the next thing, aren't they? Yeah, it's like, oh, what's for dessert?

SPEAKER_01 14:30

Eating like someone's gonna take it away from you. But that's and that's such a mum thing as well, isn't it? Like not giving yourself enough time to sit there and eat.

SPEAKER_02 14:42

Yeah, we definitely learn that when we have the young kids, and we do have like you've got 30 seconds now to eat this meal before you've got to do something else.

SPEAKER_01 14:50

Yeah, yeah, before they get bored and they're throwing food around or something like that. Yeah, yeah, it's a real learned behaviour, and I so I think that's another awareness thing is to notice your and again we've done a podcast around how you eat and notice how it is and take that time to eat slowly to to feel full up, because yeah, that's the danger, isn't it? That you've thrown this food down your neck and you're like, I'm still hungry, I need to eat something else, and within that 20-minute window, and then you shoved another load of food in your face, yeah, and then you're like, Okay, now I feel sick.

SPEAKER_02 15:32

Yeah, now I feel sick, that's not good, is it? And don't forget if you haven't slept very well, oh my god, that's terrible hungry the next day. Why do we think that is? It's really obvious if we think about it.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

It's really obvious if we think about it really hard. Really hard. I'm thinking really, really hard, Julie. When I'll give you the answer now, you'll be like, oh, yeah, of course. I don't know. I mean, like you're all your defences are down, aren't they, at that point?

SPEAKER_02 16:01

Well, there is that side of it, but if you haven't slept very well, your energy is low, how does your body make energy? Okay, so it wants your energy, it wants to nutrients again up. Yes. And what nutrient does it need? What's the main ingredient for energy? Pringles.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

Not in my house. No, not in my house either way, because I would I would eat them will eat them.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

Oh, you know, there's certain foods that I'm sure we've had this conversation before. There's certain foods or certain things that I will just not have.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

Yeah, I like refuse.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

I refuse to go there. It's a good rule. Pringles is one of them. And I tell you why, because it so pisses me off that they are telling you in their marketing slogan what they've done to that product to get you to eat it. Yeah, all that stuff that they've done on the brain, I'm not even available for it. I'm like, no.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

It's not yet, it's not fair. You can't do that to me.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

No, yeah. No, so that's one of one of my things on my list.

SPEAKER_01 17:07

Probably adopt that rule.

SPEAKER_02 17:09

I will not eat under any circumstances. Like it could be, I could be really hungry and it's the only food. I'm still not eating it. No, because I've got my principles and my values, and I will not eat that.

SPEAKER_00 17:20

No, I agree. It's a it's a good, it's a good rule. All right, so other than Pringles, what glucose is sugar?

SPEAKER_02 17:28

Speaking for sugar, right? It is, yeah. Because glucose is the main ingredient, then you need the cofactors to actually convert it into ATP energy. But when you're tired, your poor body's just going, oh, what I need now is to make some quick energy.

SPEAKER_01 17:44

And that's the I think that's the key thing, isn't it? It's the quick energy. That's what you're and that's why you end up looking for looking for the snacks, looking for generally the quote unquote naughty snacks, because that is your quick energy, isn't it? It's a massive boost.

SPEAKER_02 18:00

Exactly. And I'll tell you something shocking. With my clients, I always go through sleep stuff with them, and I would say that easily more than half of my clients are in a deficit of sleep to the tune of one day a week. So if you look over a week, yeah, they're basically getting six nights sleep out of seven.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

Seven, yeah, yeah. No, I can totally, you know, I'm I'm I am better than I used to be, but I am still fairly shocking at getting my butt in bed, and I can completely understand that yeah, for it you'd lose at least seven hours sleep.

SPEAKER_02 18:43

I had a client recently who her bedtime was midnight if if we were lucky, like if that was a good night, or got to bed at midnight, but then wait for this, got up at 5 a.m. to do her exercise before the kids got up. Now, the fact that she'd made that habit and she was disciplined enough to do it, to do her exercise, that's the only time she could get it in with her young kids. But I just said to her, You are on five hours sleep a night at best, because you're going to bed at 12 at best, you're not falling asleep straight away, although I think she was because she was exhausted, then getting up at five to do exercise, and then come to me because the first complaint was my energy's low, she's burnt out, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That's and even like I don't know when you throw yourself in bed and like go quick, close your eyes, go to sleep. I've got I've only got like five hours to to do this in. There's no way that's a good quality of sleep.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

No, no, but there are many people that that losing a a night's sleep a week is the norm, yeah, but from your body's perspective, it's that's not normal for your body. So therefore, on a daily basis, it's making you overeat because it's looking for energy just for the time.

SPEAKER_01 20:05

Yeah, that's really, really interesting. Um, another thing is alcohol. Yeah. Doesn't that always make you hungry the next day? Hungry that day, in fact, and then it also takes away any of those rules that you ever make for yourself, and then you eat everything.

SPEAKER_02 20:21

Yeah, yeah, and there's lots of reasons for that. It's quite detailed how that mechanism works, but it's helping you to process the alcohol. Your blood sugars

Alcohol Hormones Gut And Medications

SPEAKER_02 20:31

drop really low after you've been drinking because alcohol has a lot of sugar, yeah, and it has to be pushed through the liver because when that enters your bloodstream, it's such an emergency situation for the body because the body literally receives that and says toxin alert, yeah. Toxin alert. Can you imagine? I can imagine going the body, it's coming down, yeah, yeah. Emergency situation. Send out the troops, yeah, yeah. And so that has to be processed through the liver, and in the in the process of doing that, you drop your sugars low, you also drop your electrolytes as well. So, therefore, your body again is trying to help you. I need to replenish my sugars, they are low, uh, my electrolytes are low. Send the signal. Oh, the signal is the sugar again.

SPEAKER_01 21:24

Yeah, I'm hungry, you're hungover, we're gonna eat something crappy.

SPEAKER_02 21:29

Yeah, and it needs the energy because processing anything like alcohol in an emergency situation takes a lot of nutrients.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, what can people take away from this if they are somebody that says, I am always hungry? So, first of all, is there any reason for somebody to be always hungry? Like there's is there always something we can do about it?

SPEAKER_02 21:58

Yeah, I think we've also got to Rule out like medical reasons why you might be hungry, medications, yeah. So, like if you're having to take steroids, that's gonna make you hungry. Absolutely, certain medications will make you hungry, certain medical conditions, like if you've got an overactive thyroid, that's gonna make you want to keep eating.

SPEAKER_01 22:19

When I was I think I talked about this fairly recently, I think it was on the podcast. When I was um trying to find an oral contraceptive pill when I was a lot younger, one of them made me ravenous, like like almost animalistically ravenous. I just couldn't stop eating. Um, and that was yeah, that was that was quite eye-opening actually. What a difference, just that, you know, tiny little tablet made.

SPEAKER_02 22:47

Yeah, and hormones have a huge impact, don't they, on that whole system of glucose, insulin sensitivity, just that it's very common to feel more hungry when you're going through hormonal changes and perimenopause because of that system. So that oral contraceptive is having an impact on that endocrine system again. Yeah, that starts to trigger, like you experience in an extreme way. But most of the time in perimenopause, it's not a massive trigger, but you you are aware that you are more hungry and you tend to eat a bit more and a bit more frequently because of that change in the way that those hormones are communicating with each other, and stress will do it as well. So stress initially, if you have a massive stress, you don't eat, tends to shut down, yeah. Yeah, that's an adrenaline response stress, but if you have that longer ongoing cortisol stress, again, your body's looking for I need the um ingredients to deal with this inflammatory response, to deal with the I've pushed up this mechanism in my body and I need to support it. Yeah, I know what you've got the little fire engines out, yeah. Trying to put out put out those inflammatory. I've got to eat those fire engines in order to make them work. So that is definitely an important one. So anything on the endocrine system, so the endocrine system is the hormonal system, anything medically, anything medication that's targeting the hormone system, yeah, any life changes due to hormones is going to have a have an impact. And the other thing is the gut, the gut microbiome is huge here, so the signal in there is massive. So we know from a nutrition standpoint, we know that if you've got an overgrowth of a bacteria called Candida, which is the one that um is like a yeasty type, and we all we generally all have some of this in our system, but when it gets out of control, it makes you eat sugar like crazy. And when you cut off that sugar, you get the the reaction that your body produces is like you've you're coming off heroin, yeah, it's so strong because you've got this group of bacteria, these these little things in your body that are going, we need to be fed, we need the sugar, we need the sugar, yeah, and you cannot willpower that one. No, that is a tough one. You have to cut off their supply completely. That yeah, so even imbalances in the microbiome can make you eat more, yeah. But that's and that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

You you were talking about the sugar when you do cut it off. So for a again, bunny bunny ears are out, a normal person that eats a relatively normal diet, but there is lots of ultra-processed food in there, so there's lots of lots of sugar added into all of this. When you cut that off, and it's quite tough to do so, yeah, but when you've had that space, everything again quietens down a bit, doesn't it? And you don't have that constant, like your body's not continually shouting for that sugar.

SPEAKER_02 26:05

Yeah, well, it's shouted for a while, and it can really shout loud in those initial periods, can't it? Yeah, and then it starts to realise, oh, I'm not being nothing's happening. Yeah. And then because your body's clever, it says, Oh, we better not shout that anymore, because that wasn't really we weren't getting anywhere with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

But that's I mean, but that's again, that's another cycle that you can get into, isn't it? That when you're eating the sugar and then you're you're hungry, so you're eating the sugar, you're hungry, you're eating your sugar, your blood sugar's going all over the place. And so to be able to create that bit of space, it's yeah, it's another reason why you might be always hungry. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:45

If you've got blood sugar instability, so you're on that roller coaster, that crash that you get will make you eat more and more frequently. So there is that um phrase flattening the curve in terms of blood sugar management, which if you are using a CGM, yeah, that you can see the curve straight away and you can see the impact, you can see things that spike

Blood Sugar Balance And Simple Fixes

SPEAKER_02 27:08

and drop low. It's really interesting.

SPEAKER_01 27:10

Oh, yeah, I'd love to do love to monitor it properly. That would be that would be great fun. So for anybody that's like out of that bracket, that the medications and things like like that are affecting. The baseline is basically to make sure that you're fully hydrated, that you've got enough sleep. I'm sure we've talked about some of these because.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

Seriously, we're going back to the complex of the chair again because even exercise, although I spoke about if you're doing a lot, you need to fuel for it. If you don't do any exercise, this also has an impact of you're not packaging up your energy and transporting it, therefore, your body thinks it's in deficit again.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so you've got to exercise and you've got to make sure that you are actually eating nutritiously dense meals. And I'm not and that's difficult now, especially like even if we think that we're we're eating well, but our fruit and our veg are not as uh nutritionally dense as we would love them to be. So we have to work a little bit harder at that. It's not it's just not as easy as it as it probably once was. And I think also because there's so much choice in the supermarket, I think you know, long ago it was much easier because there wasn't that choice. This is just what you ate because it was natural. That's what you ate, and now you've got all of this choice, and it does make it really, really tough. And I think you've just got to peel it right back and make it super, super simple. Eat your veggies, eat your fibre, eat your protein. I still don't think I mean it's it's you know, it's popular, it's a let's jump on the bandwagon of protein, but I still don't think we are eating as much as we need to be, and that for me makes a massive difference.

SPEAKER_02 29:03

It certainly does, and you can try that on yourself because if you eat if you get up in the morning and you eat 20 to 30 grams of protein at breakfast, it will blunt your appetite and you'll get to lunch and you won't have even thought about food. Yeah, it does do that, so just experiment and see when you're in that perimenopausal menopausal state where your hormones are going astray. The most common reason for that is blood sugar balance issues. Yeah, partly not your fault because that's a natural thing with the hormones, but we tend to fuel it even more because of the fact we don't eat enough protein and we eat it too much sugar and all of that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 29:48

Yeah, or we've got go into that whole fasting thing, like intermittent fasting thing that will absolutely destroy all those signals. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, do all the things that we normally talk about. Yeah, just do it, people. But no, that was I I think it's really, really helpful because I think some people feel like especially when people talk about food noise and and the association with um the like manjaro and all of that lot that take that food noise away that people think that maybe that is the answer, but there is there's lots of stuff that you can do before that point.

SPEAKER_02 30:32

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 30:34

Fab. Oh, I'm hungry now. Should we go and eat no dinner? We just did we have just eaten, we've just eaten a very, very delicious, nutritious lunch, and we are we will be very full until dinner time. We will indeed. Hope you've enjoyed this. Come into the far too fabulous Facebook group and tell us if this if you really identify

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