Satiety and hunger work closely together to regulate food intake. Through various hormonal processes, hunger occurs when the body is lacking energy.

Satiety triggers when enough food has been absorbed. This sensation can be translated into a complete absence of hunger: it is the signal that tells us that we must stop eating.

Satiety and satiation: what difference?

Being satiated means that you do not want to eat a meal while still being hungry.

For example, one can be satisfied by eating a very hearty meal, but still "still have a small place" for dessert.

Waiting to be hungry to eat, the key to satiety

By habit or by obligation, it is common to eat every day at the same time without even waiting to be hungry. Now, without hunger, no satiety.

Paradoxically, the first step to feeling satiety is to listen to your hunger. Ideally, we do not start eating without feeling it.

It is not easy to apply this advice when you have to respect a lunch break schedule at work, but you can try to respect it at home.

The importance of being attentive to your desires

The mechanisms of hunger are very sophisticated: they direct our desires to the nutrients that our body needs.

For example, if our body is in great need of protein, we must crave foods that are high in protein such as meat. But if instead of protein, we eat rather a large dish of vegetables, satiety is difficult to manifest because the needs of our body are not filled.

Being attentive to our food cravings is therefore very important.

It is also very important to take the time to eat well and savor each bite slowly. Thus, satiety is manifested more quickly.

On the contrary, if you eat quickly, the process of satiety does not have time to trigger and the risk is to absorb more food than necessary.