Food for many people is one of the most vivid pleasures. And the pleasure is for that and enjoyment, in order to want to receive it again and again. This is what causes people to eat often and a lot, which leads in the future to a constant feeling of hunger. Most have long forgotten that such a true hunger, we just became emotionally dependent on food, so the question of how to deal with a constant sense of hunger and emotional overeating is actual today.
Secrets of combating obsessive hunger
- Learn to recognize your physiological hunger.
- You can start a food diary in which to record the time and amount of food eaten.
- In a fight with a constant hunger will help a clear diet and strict adherence to it. It is necessary to ruthlessly suppress all attempts to eat outside the timetable.
- Walking, chatting with friends, going to the movies, cleaning the apartment in full, listening to your favorite music, watching old photos - all this and much more will distract from the constant thoughts about food.
- With a desire to pounce on food, you can resolve this, but only after 3 "healthy" products. For example, before the coveted chocolate eat yogurt, apple and carrots. As a rule, these "healthy helpers" are enough to satisfy a real sense of hunger.
- A healthy sleep is a prerequisite for fighting the frequent bouts of hunger. It has long been proven that sleep disorders can increase the feeling of hunger due to a decrease in the body's level of leptin (leptin is a hormone regulating appetite and signaling to the brain for satiety).
- In order to fight the feeling of unquenchable hunger it was easier, it is necessary to overcome stress, because in a state of stress, control over food is often lost. Under stress conditions, the amount of cortisol (stress hormone) increases. The increased amount of this hormone in the blood activates the physiological need for sweet and salty foods.
- Every person has an innate system that controls the feeling of satiety. But it happens that in the body there are genetic disorders, in which the brain stops receiving signals about satiety and a person suffers from a constant feeling of hunger. If you are traced this rare genetic disorder, do not despair - today, medicine is working on a drug based on enzymes that will help to cope with this problem.
The constant feeling of hunger will be easier to overcome if you use some tricks:
- Rinse your mouth with water as often as possible and preferably if it is a mint;
- You can chew a spoonful of skimmed milk powder;
- between the lip and the nose there is an acupuncture point, when pressing on with the middle finger for a few minutes the feeling of hunger is dull;
- in the morning it is recommended to take a cool shower, and after rubbing yourself with a hard towel,
- you can make an approximate diet for a day, preferably not exceeding 1000 calories, which must include carbohydrates of plant origin;
- It is necessary to include fish dishes in the diet twice or thrice a week;
- food intake should be 5-6 times a day during the day;
- it is necessary to try to use salads from vegetables with the addition of legumes, which contribute to the rapid saturation and improvement of digestion;
- try to walk after eating, not before eating.