Since I started drinking more soups and smoothies and less solid foods, I have dropped a bit of weight. Not a lot, just a few pounds. In addition, I feel less ‘full’ after having liquid meals.
Why is this? Shouldn’t calories be the same, regardless of whether something is in solid or liquid form?
For example, I had a smoothie with two bananas, a cup of blueberries, and two cups of oat milk today. I could never bring myself to actually eat two bananas, a cup of blueberries, and two cups of oat milk *separately,* but blended together I can consume all of that, no problem. Why?
In: Biology
In the span of human evolution, there has only been a very short time when people ate very calorie dense food. It’s very labor intensive to refine sugar or even just gather many berries and nuts and put them in one food if you are doing it by hand. Our body has hormones for satiety and hunger, but it’s mostly adapted to “make sure you get enough of that sweet (high calorie) thing”, completely unprepared for the floodgates to open so wide and get so many calories from small sources.
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