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by cj 133 days ago
> It just makes me eat less. I enjoy food every bit as much as I did before

Why are you eating less, if you enjoy eating just as much as before?

Is it that you feel physically full (would be uncomfortable to eat more)? Or is it that you aren't hungry (but you're also not particularly "full")?

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Why don't you eat 5 entire pizzas instead of 5 slices? It's like that. One pizza seems like a LOT of food now. Three slices seems like too much. Before I could eat a whole pizza without even thinking twice. I look forward to it just as much, if not more. The first bite is just as good, but honestly seems better since I didn't just have a snack an hour ago. I ate like 5 Takis for a snack the other day and they were delicious and I really enjoyed it, but before I would have eaten the entire bag and not really even taken the time to taste them.

I would say it takes longer to get hungry even though I eat maybe 1/3 to 1/2 as many calories as I did before (that is to say 2/3 less than before). If I ate this little before GLP-1 I would have felt like I was dying and would have been thinking about food and hunger all day and night.

Yes you do fill up faster, and your stomach empties slower, so there is actually a physical 'being full' that happens with less food than previously.