I don't really know much about points plus, but I know that it isn't all that different from calorie counting. While you can spend all of your points on whatever you want, you need to choose wisely to make sure that you are eating meals that fill you up and keep you feeling full.
Like I said I don't know much about points plus, but let's look at meals with relatively the same volume of food, from the same place.
The Cheesecake Factory has some wild portions, so let's use them especially since they have their new lower calorie menu with equally delicious food.
This is my favorite meal: The Tuscan Chicken. It's a lot of food and the menu lists it at
590 calories, MyFitnessPal says 585. Either way it's not that much and it's all chicken and veggies pretty much. Yum!
Here's another meal that I've seen brought out on the same plate as the above so it's probably around the same amount of food, maybe just a little more. The Fettucini With Chicken and Sun-Dried Tomatoes has
1,830 calories according to MyFitnessPal.
Same amount of food, VERY DIFFERENT in terms of calories. I would also bet that the Tuscan Chicken would keep you fuller longer than the Fettucini. WHAT you eat is sometimes very important when it comes to hunger. I can eat 1200 calories and be satisfied for the day if they're made up of things like the Tuscan Chicken.
Explore WHAT you're eating and see if you are spending your points on things that are leaving you hungry.