Why Am I Hungry Three Hours After Eating?

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Why am I hungry three hours after eating?

This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times bestselling author, celebrity celebrity nutrition expert and fitness hall of famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert.

Linda Adams from my Facebook community asks, I have a shake with your paleo protein in the morning and I'm hungry within three hours.

I usually add coconut milk, fruit, veggies.

Avocado or nut butter. And your fiber. What else should I add? All right, I've definitely got the answer.

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All right, so I want you to look at a couple of things here that are going on. First thing that I'd love you to do is when you're hungry, have some water and wait 30 minutes. And then next time, have some water and wait an hour. What I found is I, I am naturally more hungry in the morning and not hungry in the afternoon and evening. And I'll have breakfast and I have a late breakfast. I intermittent fast. So I generally have breakfast more around 9 or 10 o'. Clock. I sort of delay when I first feel like I'm hungry. I'll have a little bit more coffee or some green tea, or I'm really addicted to this special lemon water with, with cayenne pepper. Shout out to the Suja people. Oh my gosh. Lemon love, love it. And then I'll delay. And so at the first little bit of hunger, I don't eat. I wait until it comes again. And so that's the first thing I, I'd say is, first of all, I love what Dr. Joel Kahn says. He says hunger is younger and you, we've got to get used to a little bit of hunger is not a problem. Back in the day, I'm going to totally date myself. We were taught that if you, you know, you never should let yourself get hungry and even at the slightest hint of hunger, that you should run out and go get, you know, go eat. And I just think that's crazy. So what you want to do is eat, drink a lot of fluids between meals. Super important. Get yourself hydrated. Green tea, black coffee. I use bulletproof beans, water. But then, you know, your first, first bit of hunger, drink, drink some fluids instead, and then wait till you're really hungry and push it through a bit.

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