Foods to feel full when breastfeeding

I have a 4 week old little girl and am currently soley breastfeeding and have never felt more hungry, constantly in my life! Am finding I have to be continually eating and fear I will gain weight. Are there any foods that anyone can recommend to stay fuller, longer? 

I don't think you should be thinking about eating less as this will affect your milk production and you definitely do not want that. I find porridge for breakfast keeps me full, but I cannot emphasize enough that as you are nursing you really should be looking at over all increasing your maintenance calories by between 500 and 800 per day to hav enough to make millk. So you should be having Breakfast, Lunch, Supper plus mid morning, mid afternoon and pre bed time snacks! ALso it's really important to sip plenty of fluids all day.

Heres hoping oyu and your new baby thrive, remember you have plenty of time in the future to dedicate to your weight :o)

I had similar post the other day, and receive very similar answer. And it calmed me down. I am breastfeeding and I do have increased appetite. I enjoy eating tangerine oranges, and this helps. But be careful, as it some babies get colic if you eat too much of citrus fruits.

I am breastfeeding a 3 week old, and im not terribly hungry, but I allow myself all the steamed veggies I can eat, so I have a little bit of my high cal stuff, and lots of veggies, so i stay full without getting crazy, also I find taking a vitamin helps.

For snacks i have rice cakes with hummus, low in calories, but a nice savoury hit for me, if i want sweet, I have one of those little fruit snakcs, with the pears and peaches.

But then again I have a lot of weight to lose, so if you only have a little, you may like to indulge a bit more, but this works for me!

I was always super hungry when breastfeeding. I had to eat every couple hours in order to keep the hunger pangs away. I gained 40 pound during my pregnancy, ate 1900-2100 calories while breastfeeding and lost the baby weight by 4-5 months postpartum.

Some things that really kept me full between meals:

• Reduced Fat Wheat Thins with Light Laughing Cow cheese and an apple
• whole wheat toast with 2T peanut butter (I like Smucker's Natural because no oils or sugars are added to it) and a glass of soy milk
• a bowl of Fiber One with sliced bananas and soy milk
• an apple with cream cheese
• carrots with hummus
• chopped carrots, apples and raisins covered in yogurt
• plain yogurt with granola and a drizzle of honey
• cottage cheese with pears or pineapple

I also drink insane amounts of water. Like, 500+ ounces a day. The breastfeeding really kicked up my water intake, too. I think that really helped me figure out if I was hungry or just craving food. The trick to feeling full is combining protein with something high in fiber (preferably nothing too refined).

If you're feeling constant hunger, you're probably not eating enough. I tried restricting too much while nursing and really wrecked my milk supply.

Good luck!

whoah, you drink 60 cups of water a day??

Heh. At least! I have a 34 ounce cup at my desk that I empty every 30 minutes for the duration of my work day (8 hours). It's a good thing I have a big bladder!

WOW, I didn't even know that was possible.  I was drinking 15 per day and thought THAT was a ton.  Then I read a website that said to drink 32 cups of water a day during pregnancy, and that blew my mind.....  Just, wow.