Anyone else like this when they eat soup?

[Formermousemat]

Does anyone find themselves starving hungry on the point of fainting after eating soup?

I had homemade soup for lunch today, with an English muffin. It was a root vegetable soup, so not particularly unsubstantial or thin.

I find that every time I eat soup, I go from feeling normal to feeling so hungry I'm on the point of passing out in about 30 seconds flat. It doesn't happen with any other meal, and if I eat anything else for lunch I feel fine for ages and then I have a slow buildup to feeling hungry about tea-time. With soup, it's like I'm about to die or something if I don't eat.

I don't get why this happens. I'm not diabetic as I've been tested recently. What gives? Does this happen to anyone else?

No, but then I'm anorexic - could you have a cheese roll with it?

How long after?

Are you adding pulses or any other protein source? Root veg is quite carby, that and a muffin together might be the cause. Quick energy spike from the carbs, then a crash causing the sudden hunger.

Thanks for the replies. About 3 hours after I would say. Unfortunately I can't eat pulses so I can't add them. Might have to have a cheese roll as others have suggested, or some ham or something.

Are you eating it chunky or blending it smooth?

How many calories does it contain? About 10?

I make soups with main vegetable + potato and stock, as I don't do dairy. There just aren't enough calories in a couple of carrots and some water to keep you going for a long time, so we have to have something else with it - flatbreads, a roll, that kind of thing, or make soups with a small amount of meat/fish/other protein source in them.

A cheese or cheese & ham toastie with it would be more filling. Can you have pasta - the shells (conchiglione) are really nice in soup, especially the giant ones.

Asian soups are great, as they actually contain food… It doesn’t feel like just liquid… I’m talking about things like Vietnamese pho or banh canh. You eat them a lot for breakfast and to keep you very full.

And I should add that I know your regular soups contain vegetables and things, but when you’re used to the Asian variety, the soups in the UK are very very plain and not as filling.

Yes.

I get it with porridge as well which is supposedly some kind of slower release bullshit.

I also get it with pastA.

I never eat porridge or pasta for those reasons.

I will always eat two bowls of soup to overcome the soul thing because I love soup.
I've typed soup too much.

Soup.

I only tend to eat soup to stave off hunger for a while rather than a meal iyswim.
Unless it's my own leak spud and ham soup which is so thick I can eat it with a fork .

Yes I get this with soups. And porridge as well!

I dunno why but if I have a sandwich for lunch fine. If I have soup, no matter what kind I get really hungry and sick feeling. I feel very very full when I eat soup or porridge initially, then about an hour later really hungry. I just have a roll with it or something.

I have never understood people who can have soup for dinner.

Yep. Except today I had to have it after a painful and still numb visit to the dentist.

I get the same problem with porridge too.

I love porridge and used to have it as my 'treat' supper. Now I eat a ham and cheese slice roll-up and feel full and no longer have a sore tummy.

You def need protein, but skip the bread. Eat a couple of slices of ham or chicken with it. Possibly follow with some full fat Greek yoghurt.

Lentils. Split red lentils added makes it so much more filling.

I have this a bit! I wondered if it's to do with quite a lot of energy used in the physical eating of soup (constantly spooning it up!) combined with sipping and swallowing but not much in the way of chewing and the texture being quite samey so it's not satisfying? Cheese/ham/bread/butter in comparison all have a different texture. I like soup but it can be a bit relentless. And I'm not satisfied by it as a physical sensation!

You could add squash, potato, cheese, ham, chicken etc to up the protein. Or eat a couple of hard boiled eggs with it

tobe i have to tell you i'm actually lol'ing at your description of of eating soup being exhausting, but i LOVE your thought process :)

DH has informed me he's always starving at bed time after i've fed him my home made soup. But he's never admitted it before!

I bung potato, veg, cream, milk and stir stilton cheese in mine. With crusty bread and butter. It's not a healthy meal my any stretch here

I'm another one like this with both soup and porridge.

@Laiste

My soup is really stew, can stand a spoon up in it. Plus lots of fat & carbs with it.