>>80470014Feeling full is entirely psychological and 'studies' on it are bunk. But you WILL crave food when your nutritional needs are unmet, even if you have enough (or too many) calories. This is why you might get weirdly specific cravings between meals or just generally need to snack through the day--it's not a sign that your carbs were "the bad kind" but that your diet isn't fulfilling all of your bodies needs and it's looking for what it's lacking. The dangers of a lot of processed food isn't that they lack nutrition, but that the ratio of calorie to other things is so extreme you would need to eat an absolutely excessive amount to fulfill your needs--or alternatively that your diet is too narrow and you eat too much of specific things and exhaust your body's ability to metabolize it (ie Kyoto Sickness/Beriberi).
If you want to stay full just make sure you're eating balanced meals and covering your bases. Take hunger between meals as a sign that your body is missing something, and search for what that something is.
For anybody that doesn't have some extreme psychological eating disorder, it's always better to increase your activity level to burn more calories than to decrease your food intake. Change your diet to better food, yes. But the idea that you can just 'eat less' or trick your body into eating less until you lose weight is silly--you're just starving yourself, and doing more harm in denying your body all the things it needs than you're gaining by shedding a couple of pounds off your gut.
