Why You Feel Full After Some Meals but Hungry Again Soon After

You can eat a large bowl of crisps and feel ready for another snack soon afterwards, yet a meal containing eggs, lentils or yoghurt can keep hunger away for hours. The difference is not simply how much food is sitting in your stomach. Fullness is the result of a complicated conversation between your stomach, intestines, hormones and brain. The type of nutrients you eat, how quickly the food is digested and even how much you chew can influence how long that feeling lasts. This is why two meals with similar calorie counts can leave you with completely different experiences of hunger and satisfaction.