Why do I crave carbs after I eat a big bowl of oatmeal in the morning?

Have you tried eating more carbs?

Insulin. Get your medication.

No it's rolled oats. And I'm not diabetic just predisposed to it.

Oatmeal is a carb breakfast and the ingestion of carbs first thing in the morning would trigger hunger soon after....try eating eggs, either boiled or fried. The protein levels me out for a few hours --no hunger or craving if you include small amount of protein at every meal.

does the oatmeal give you lots of gas? I used to eat oatmeal for breakfast but finally connected the massive farting activity I had to live with...to the oatmeal.

I gave up the oatmeal and am less farty.

Not sure if I crave carbs less, but it is conceivable you just aren't digesting the oatmeal correctly and therefore hungry soon after.

The only gas I get is in the evening. So unless there's a 12 hour lag, then I think I'm digesting the oatmeal ok. Ill try adding some protein in the morning. Do you think a scoop of protein powder to the oatmeal would suffice?

Have you tried giving in to your cravings and eating more carbs?

Interesting how everybody with diabetes is predisposed. It is a genetic issue beyond their control. Somehow, the diabetics that actually change their diet and lose all the carbs are miraculously cured of their diabetes. There is an entire industry of physicians and nutritionists treating diabetes and the rare few will actually ask people to change their diet corrctly. Most have their patients eat less fat and more whole grains...exactly what gave them diabetes in the first place. Then they conclude that it is a genetic predisposition that is beyond dietary changes, and just jack up their insulin prescription. What a shame, and an incredible number of runners that appear to be very healthy are beginning to become diabetic due to the insane insistence on a high carb diet.

Oatmeal addict wrote:

My usual breakfast is a bowl of oatmeal with some fruit, peanut butter and a dallop of Greek yogurt. I'm usually satisfied with that but about an hour later I'm craving sweet carbs like a few donuts or something. Can someone explain why this happens? I read somewhere but can't remember where but it has something to do with a certain hormone being released when your body eats a lot of carbs. I think it effects people who have diabetic tendencies like myself. Is there anyway to prevent this from happening?

Your blood sugar is low when you wake up, so you feel hungry. You ingest a lot of carbs. Your blood sugar rises rapidly. Your body produces a lot of insulin in response, to lower your blood sugar. Your blood sugar then crashes. You now feel hungry again.

The way to prevent this is to eat a diet lower in carbohydrates generally, and in smaller amounts, and in a context of (with) fat.

As an experiment, why not try eggs and bacon for breakfast for the next week or so?

Not even close bud wrote:

Interesting how everybody with diabetes is predisposed. It is a genetic issue beyond their control. Somehow, the diabetics that actually change their diet and lose all the carbs are miraculously cured of their diabetes. There is an entire industry of physicians and nutritionists treating diabetes and the rare few will actually ask people to change their diet corrctly. Most have their patients eat less fat and more whole grains...exactly what gave them diabetes in the first place. Then they conclude that it is a genetic predisposition that is beyond dietary changes, and just jack up their insulin prescription. What a shame, and an incredible number of runners that appear to be very healthy are beginning to become diabetic due to the insane insistence on a high carb diet.

All those words and still nothing truthful

Oatmeal addict wrote:

Do you think a scoop of protein powder to the oatmeal would suffice?

Forget the F...ing powder and eat some real food. Throw a chicken breast in that oatmeal with a little honey over it and you'll run 10 seconds/mile faster in no time.

Oatmeal addict wrote:

Do you think a scoop of protein powder to the oatmeal would suffice?

No. Protein is also quite insulinogenic.

If you insist on eating oatmeal in the AM, add some butter to it.

try using the 70-20-5-5 percentge plan?

lol lol lol lol wrote:

No. Protein is also quite insulinogenic.

And too expensive to eat all that much of, compared to carbohydrate. Calorie for calorie, it has a comparable insulin response to starches, but doesn't get pigged out on the way carbs do.

OP eats a big bowl of oatmeal. Nobody eats a big bowl of protein powder. No harm in evening out the nutrient balance.

Eating carbs makes you want to eat more carbs. That's just in the nature of carbs.

Jdk, I would be interested in hearing more about your expertise with diabetes. I work in a diabetes clinic. I see the scenario I mentioned every day. One physician bangs his head on the wall trying to convince his peers not to recommend a low fat, high grain diet to cure diabetes. All of his peers read 20 years ago that fat causes diabetes and every other human malady, so they stick their head in the sand and refuse to change. In the mean time, these people have never improved the life of anybody they treat. All they've done is continue to adjust medication levels because the patients don't improve. Our healthcare system at its best.

ghorxssm wrote:

Oatmeal is a carb breakfast and the ingestion of carbs first thing in the morning would trigger hunger soon after....try eating eggs, either boiled or fried. The protein levels me out for a few hours --no hunger or craving if you include small amount of protein at every meal.

This^

You probably are craving carbs because your body is starving for carbs if all you are eating is oatmeal in the morning. Oatmeal is almost entirely protein and fiber. Try going with something with more carbohydrates for breakfast and see if that helps.