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[mollz23]

Which of the JC meals fill you up the most? I find that, unfortunately, a lot of my favorite meals I eat too quickly, and then I am still hungry. I'll mention a few that I have in mind that I LOVE but seem to eat too quickly. Maybe you have some suggestions on ways to "volumize" these meals.

Breakfast: French Toast, Pancakes
Lunch: personal pizza
Dinner: rising crust pizza, pesto pizza, ziti, mac and cheese (can you tell I love carbs? lol)

[Blessed4Life2]

mollz23, on 23 October 2011 - 12:10 PM, said:

Which of the JC meals fill you up the most? I find that, unfortunately, a lot of my favorite meals I eat too quickly, and then I am still hungry. I'll mention a few that I have in mind that I LOVE but seem to eat too quickly. Maybe you have some suggestions on ways to "volumize" these meals.

Breakfast: French Toast, Pancakes
Lunch: personal pizza
Dinner: rising crust pizza, pesto pizza, ziti, mac and cheese (can you tell I love carbs? lol)

I add extra berries to my french toast....usually blueberries. I add them BEFORE i put it into the microwave, that way they warm up and make their very own juicy syrup.

You can add extra veggies to your pizza's, like bell peppers, tomato, onion, mushrooms etc to volumize it.

I have added tuna to my mac/cheese to volumize it.

[I Called Jenny]

mollz23, on 23 October 2011 - 12:10 PM, said:

Which of the JC meals fill you up the most? I find that, unfortunately, a lot of my favorite meals I eat too quickly, and then I am still hungry. I'll mention a few that I have in mind that I LOVE but seem to eat too quickly. Maybe you have some suggestions on ways to "volumize" these meals.

Breakfast: French Toast, Pancakes
Lunch: personal pizza
Dinner: rising crust pizza, pesto pizza, ziti, mac and cheese (can you tell I love carbs? lol)

Like Melissa, I also add tuna to the mac and cheese (kind of like a tuna/noodle casserole) and veggies to the pizza.

I have made some sliced apples and added some Splenda and cinnamon, microwaved them and added them to the French toast and waffles. I think I even added them to the pancakes once. If I have berries, I add those.

I also add cooked mushrooms and onions to the ziti and fettucine and a handful of peas to the carbonara.

You can, of course, eat a salad with any meal.

But the thing you have to remember is that it takes your brain between 20-30 minutes to recognize that you've eaten so it's not unusual for you to feel hungry right after a meal.

In fact, today, AS I was eating my lunch, my stomach was still growling and I was wondering if I should eat something else. Then the phone rang and by the time I got off the phone, the growling had stopped because my brain realized that my stomach was full.

So by all means feel free to "volumize" your meals but also understand that if you wait a little while after you've eaten, chances are good that you won't be as "physically" (as opposed to "mentally") hungry as you think you are.

Phyllis

[southerngirl48]

At lunch I will often eat most of my salad first and that fills me up. I like to add green peppers to the pizza. I find the Chinese type dishes work well with adding broccoli to them. I'm not as hungry in the am so space things out so I have food throughout the day. I have breakfast in the am, yogurt around 10, drink my one diet coke in the am, have a salad with my JC lunch around noon, fruit around 3, dinner with veggies around 6 and then a snack around 7 or 8. You could also do a soup type broth I think that might be free. Carrots and celery helped volumize also. I think you can also have low sodium v-8 juice that's free.

[jenrdn69]

A few things (ok more than a few)

(1) Eat veggies or a salad before the meal as an 'appetizer"

(2) Volumize the heck out of everything -- The sandwiches are the hardest to do that with, if you eat them as a sandwich, but I make fun dishes from the burgers and the chicken sandwich. If I have it 'as is' as a sandwich, always with a heap of veggies. I don't do the stuffed sandwiches, as it is just not filling to me at all, for that reason.

(3) New studies are out showing that people who drink a glass of water (full glass, like 8-16 oz) before a meal eat less --- it just fills up the stomach.

(4) After I eat my meal, I have a BIG cup of tea --- that helps me wait until my brain registers that it has eaten and also adds the last volume to the top!

[I Called Jenny]

jenrdn69, on 24 October 2011 - 10:13 AM, said:

(4) After I eat my meal, I have a BIG cup of tea --- that helps me wait until my brain registers that it has eaten and also adds the last volume to the top!

That's a GREAT tip, Jen! Thanks! And with the flavored teas so readily available, it can even "feel" like you've had dessert!

Phyllis

[jenrdn69]

Yup Phyllis --- that is one reason I do it. I LOVE sweet flavors --- I save a milk serving a day for my tea and add splenda and a bit of milk to regular (black) tea...at night, I'll add a dash of vanilla extract (pure stuff, not the stuff with added corn syrup = sugar)...its like a liquid cookie with the milk and vanilla.

[I Called Jenny]

jenrdn69, on 24 October 2011 - 03:17 PM, said:

Yup Phyllis --- that is one reason I do it. I LOVE sweet flavors --- I save a milk serving a day for my tea and add splenda and a bit of milk to regular (black) tea...at night, I'll add a dash of vanilla extract (pure stuff, not the stuff with added corn syrup = sugar)...its like a liquid cookie with the milk and vanilla.

...a liquid cookie

I LOVE that description!

Phyllis

[Lindsaygal]

My favorite right now it the Beef chow mein, I add a 1.5 cups of low sodium beef broth and come carrots and green onions and it make a really filling soup. I also put the South West chicken and rice in green peppers and bake them for a really flavorful stuffed pepper dinner.

Hope that helps,

Lindsay

[pray4you]

I also try to eat my salad as more of an appetizer. I also add veggies to most of the dinners. I also have a homemade fruit smoothie in the morning. Just a milk and a fruit but it really seems to fill me up and keep me full. I do make sure to be eating something every couple hours thrughout the day.

Breakfast around 7
snack around 9:30 (I eat my anytime bar then)
salad around 11:30
Lunch around 12
snack around 3
dinner around 6
dessert around 8

Doing that seems to have trained my brain and tummy to not get anxious in between that something else to eat is coming along soon.

It is also true that hunger and thirst are the same reaction in your brain. So sometimes when we think we are hungry it may actually be thirst. And expecially if you are exercising more, our body may be letting you know it needs more water.

Hope this helps!

[pray4you]

I realized that it sounds like all I have for breakfast is the smoothie but I actually have the smootie along with a JC breakfast (Usually the breakfast stuffed sandwich or French Toast because they are my favorites.

[Chrisjon2003]

Wow...I like all of this information. It is going to be useful in the future.

I like the Thai Chicken Curry dinner. I cook it as the package directs and make a bag of steamed cauliflower too. Then I take my potato masher and mash the heck out of the cauliflower. It makes it look like rice...then I pour over all of the curry goodness over the cauliflower 'rice' and enjoy. The curry sauce is fairly abundant so there is more than enough to go around. It is very tasty and very filling.

[reddyrawks]

I am a picky eater...I just eat the meals how they are and fill up on green beans...Sometimes I add a dash of low fat parmesan cheese to the pizza

[roxylove6]

i always have greek yogurt in the morning with berries and a little splenda on the side of my JC meal. that way i feel like i am having a huge breakfast. - at lunch i have a huge garden salad with JC dressing before i eat my meal. apples, to me, are the most filling snack between lunch and dinner.... at dinner i make a huge portion of green veggies. i am usually very full after all of these meals.

good luck!!

[nancy5012]

Breakfast - the french toast is the most filling for me

Lunch - either the chicken sandwich or turkey burger is filling. And I always have small garden salad with it. I drink a glass of water before each meal and that seems to help a lot!

Dinner - the fettucine or carbonara meals - love the pasta!! And I usually volumize these with either grilled zucchini or steamed broccoli, along with some other veggie on the side.

[Jen.M]

Like Jen, I'm also a picky eater and don't do a whole lot of customizing to my foods. However, the dinner that fills me up most by far is the mesquite chicken - I just love that one (and I love potatoes so that helps too!). I'll make a steamed veggie on the side but that and the Chicken Carbonara are usually the ones I turn to if I'm feeling really hungry.

With lunches, usually having a salad first fills me up enough so that I'm not hungry after the JC meal - I sometimes add this stuff called "Salad Pizzazz", it's 30 calories a serving, my favorite is the Cherry Cranberry Pecano with dried cherry cranberries and pecan pieces - adds just enough sweet to the salad and with the balsamic JC dressing it's delish!

With breakfast, I usually stretch it out because I don't find that I get really filled up by the JC breakfasts and with my workouts in the morning, I'm usually starving. So I'll have a yogurt on the train on my way to work (around 7:45) and make my breakfast around 9 - it's spaced out enough that I end up feeling pretty full.