Dieting is hard. We need food to live, so it is not like you can just stop eating completely when you want to lose weight. You can live without cigarettes if you want to quit smoking, but food is a must each and every day. One of the biggest problems those have on a diet is figuring out how to stop over eating. You have to make good food choices, but you have to also think hard about what each food is before you eat it. Low fat and low calorie foods can actually make things worse for you. If you seem to be hungry all of the time, some simple changes can make a huge difference.
There is more to over eating than just hunger pains. You need food to live, but you probably don't need as much as you eat every day. What you do not use is put into storage by your body in the form of fat. That fat is for a day when you do not eat as much, but most of us live in a world where that is not an issue. Anything above what you burn each day is considered over eating. Couple that with a world that is more convenient each day, and we burn less calories than ever before. If you have a job sitting behind a computer, you know what that means to you.
Hunger comes from the brain telling the body that more food is needed. When these signals are mixed up, over eating occurs. There are some that believe the low fat and low calorie craze is actually what has made us fatter as a nation. Those high processed carbs are causing blood sugar spikes. When those spikes subside, our body wants more carbs. That leads to a vicious cycle of hunger and eating again before more food is needed. Most low fat foods have these blood sugar spiking carbs included in them. These foods are also high in preservatives, which are not good for the body either.
In order to stop this cycle of sugar spikes and over eating episodes, all you have to do is to change the types of food that you eat. Forget those low fat diet foods, as they are not doing you any good. You may be okay for a few weeks, but there are few people who can resist those hunger pangs for more than a week or two. Instead, focus on the carbs that will not cause such a spike in your sugar levels. Think vegetables, fruits and whole grains. You still get carbs, but you get the good ones.
Eat a dose of protein with every single meal. Proteins are more filling and they do not digest as fast. They have little to no impact on your blood sugar, at least in comparison to those processed carbs. Fats are good for you, and even essential for brain function, and you should include them as well, as long as they are good fats. If you pair these items with low impact carbs, your sessions of over eating should go away. You may crave the bad carbs for a week, but those cravings will go away before you know it. Once you have a new eating plan in place, painful hunger pangs and over eating can be a thing of the past.
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