Stomach, as in the muscular organ where your masticated food goes for further digestion, not the midsection.

I googled up this question, and got some conflicting info. Some said the stomach doesn't shrink, and others that said it did. I always heard that if you ate less, eventually your stomach would shrink. Since its a muscle that extends when you eat, I suppose it is involved to some degree in satiation or at least the feeling of being full. I don't envision it becoming physically smaller, but maybe it becomes used to not being distended as far when you portion control, and eventually sends those "full" signals at a smaller degree is distension?

Anybody got any references on this topic? Thanks in advance.

I don't know if your stomach actually physically shrink, but I know for a fact that when you eat less, you become fuller on less. This happens pretty quickly too. Eat small portions for a few weeks and you will feel the effect. The effect is that you feel "stuffed" trying to eat a portion size that you could previously handle comfortably. Unfortunately the reverse is also true. It takes very little time till you can handle bigger portions with ease.

So in my experience it happens exactly as you describe: "I don't envision it becoming physically smaller, but maybe it becomes used to not being distended as far when you portion control, and eventually sends those "full" signals at a smaller degree is distension?


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The stomach STRETCHES when you overeat. It will stay this way until you let it relax by NOT overeating. When you do this, it "shrinks" back to it's "actual" size. So it's more of a "restoration to the original condition" than "shrinking". Once it's at its proper size, it won't continue to "shrink".

Make sense?