Learning how to deal with hunger is important to ensure weight control. Hunger is a normal thing for someone who is trying to limit food intake. However, you are advised to know the real causes of hunger, whether caused physical or psychological factors, and know how to overcome them.Many of us eat when hungry. Although it was not really hungry, but they still tend to eat a meal schedule have been conditioned since childhood. Eating caused by psychological factors is another disease. Did you know, hungry due to psychological factors are very dangerous because it has influence and power your appetite!Here are tips to keep that food intake is not excessive.
Make sure all your daily meals are rich in protein and low fat foods. Propagation of a light snack such as ‘popcorn’, raisins or nuts while waiting for the actual meal. These foods help you feel full without increasing the caloric content in the body overboard.
In addition, you can also increase the intake of vegetables and fresh fruits that are rich in fiber and high water content. If possible, make these foods as snacks daily, especially when your stomach feels hungry.
Extreme hunger will makes you tend to eat more than the quantity needed. So to avoid this, you are advised to eat before the stomach is really hungry. Most of us believe that women tend to eat too much on the return of their work. Appetite will be increased when preparing food for the family, let alone your really really hungry at that time. So, as a measure to control yourself, you are advised to fill the stomach prior to taking a low-fat yogurt or fruit before leaving home.
Here is the scale of ‘The Hunger, Satiety Rating Scale’, an excerpt from the book ‘Why Weight? A Guide to Ending Compulsive Eating (author: G. Roth, New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1989) “may give an explanation of the famine.
Full
10 = maximum satiety most outrageous, you are exposed to the disease
9 = maximum satiety extreme, you have to unscrew the stud pants
8 = extreme fullness, feeling of tightness and indigestion
7 = Very satisfied seems to overeat
6 = satisfied, you feel comfortable
Neutral
5 = Comfortable, you’re not hungry
4 = Pain has begun to show signs of hunger
3 = Hungry, ready to eat
2 = Very hungry you can not afford to focus
Hungry
1 = Hunger, you’ll feel dizzy
Note the scale on the top and know where your everyday eating habits. You should eat when you feel that the scale of 4, when the hunger started to show signs and stopped to eat at a numeric scale of 6. Remember, do not hold or let the hungry stomach to wait long.
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