So, I've always heard the conventional wisdom for losing weight is to fill up on low calorie food, so that you can eat more and still be in a deficit. But I was thinking about it today (day 2 of my journey) and I was wondering if maybe that's a mistake.
Hear me out:
Your stomach is essentially a muscle sack. It can stretch and expand to a point to accommodate food when you eat and eventually gets full, signalling you to stop. If you habitually overeat, it can stretch out permanently which makes it easier to eat more and more and may have to be reversed with surgery (for example, the people on My 600lb Life).
But your stomach can also shrink. If you eat less food, it doesn't habitually stretch out and loses some of its ability to do this over time, so you get full faster.
So, my question is: is it better to eat larger volumes of low cal food, keeping the stomach big but satisfied in the moment, or is it better to eat smaller quantities of calorie dense (but not necessarily unhealthy!) foods, allowing the stomach to shrink and being slightly under satisfied in the short term until it adjusts?
I'm just thinking that the second way would be more beneficial long term, because you dont constantly have this large hole to fill, so even if you indulge in something naughty (like cake or take out or whatever) you would naturally have a system to keep that portion smaller than if youre used to getting big portions of veggies, say, and can eat a lot more volume.
Very interested to hear peoples thoughts! Im not a doctor or very experienced with successful weight loss so I'm still figuring this out. Hopefully we can have an interesting chat in the comments :)
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