3 Tips To Control Your Appetite And Lose Weight

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The greatest enemy of losing weight, APPETITE. We have 3 tips to control your appetite while you’re on diet.

It is common to suffer from an intolerable appetite when you start losing weight. At first you try to suppress the appetite with your sheer force of will. But appetite doesn’t go away that easily. The more you fight your appetite, the more it will frustrate your efforts. When you can’t stand it any longer, it will explode and force you to binge eat. As a result, you will gain even more weight, and your diet plan will eventually fail.

Have you ever had a similar experience? Many try to skip breakfast and avoid eating altogether until lunch time, just to succeed in dieting. It’s easier to find motivation in the morning. However our willpower is depleted through the day, and as hunger grows stronger, will grows weaker. Exacerbated hunger and tiredness set the table for overeating and binge eating as hunger leads to loss of control. Binging on food, especially late at night, can make you waste a full day of sacrifices and send you spiraling with guilt. I know this cycle all too well.

So, how can we win this battle against appetite? How can we control hunger?

Don’t try to suppress your appetite! The best way to curb your appetite is learning how to control it.

Let’s find out about this 3 ways of controlling your appetite.

Tip1. Keep tabs about your appetite

To control your appetite, you first need to observe it. Pay close attention to when your appetite surges, what kind of food you want to eat at that moment, why you want to eat it, and how you react to your appetite.

Then take a look at how often you eat food, and even how you feel after eating. If you keep tracking this long enough, appetite patterns will start surfacing .

Step 1. Observe your appetite

For example, an entry in such a journal could look something like this:

“When I get angry and stressed at work, I eat a whole burger >>I love French fries with a burger! >> of course I wash it all down with a bottle of Coke”

Step 2. Identify Your Appetite Pattern

“I usually order spicy food when I’m not in a good mood!”

“If I eat without planning, I end up devouring way more than 1000 kcal per meal without realizing it!”

It’s common to feel guilty or remorse after overeating. This feeling of failure can lead you to abandon your diet or can suck the joy out of your day and replace it with self-blame!

Rather than blaming yourself for not controlling your appetite, write everything down in your journal. Try and be objective with your entries, it will help you better understand yourself and your appetite. Once you recognize repeating patterns, it will be much easier to tackle the issue and change your behavior.

Tip2. Make a list of food you want to eat

When your appetite grows unbearable, write down the food your heart desires the most. Just writing down the food you want to eat can surprisingly calm your appetite.

The food you want to eat right now may be a temporary urge deriving from your certain mood or stress, so you don’t have to appease every appetite that arises.

Make a list of food you want to eat. If you manage to keep a list of this most desirable foods of yours, you might find out that more often than not they were just transitory urges and you no longer feel the need to eat them.

If you no longer want to eat a specific food, you can delete it from the list. This usually is a big helper, so if you are having trouble with sudden urges to binge, give this a try!

Another trick that might help you squash your appetite:

Let’s say it’s the evening and you start craving Hazelnut spread on croissant, what can you do? Well you could try indulging in fantasies about binging on it as much as you want but exert yourself to only eat it on the next day. You might just find out that your unhealthy craving is already gone and there is a good chance it won’t be coming back.

Tip3. Eat slowly and truly savor your food

If there is something you want to eat, you should not go completely against it. holding your appetite, will eventually cause a binge-plosion. So, try to consume reasonable amounts of it and do it slowly. If you eat it in a hurry, it will be difficult to fully enjoy the food, which in turn makes it difficult to feel satiated even after feasting on large amounts.

Satisfaction with your meals improves your quality of life and gives you a better shot at reaching your diet goals. So let’s eat slowly while savoring our food! Just try it. You may find out how much easier it is to control your appetite when you give your stomach enough time to communicate with your brain and tell you how full you really are.

There is no way to completely suppress appetite. Taking appetite suppressant pills might not be good for your long term health. It may not be easy to control your appetite at first, but if you stick to these tips, you can reach full control of your mind and, as a result, achieve your target weight.

I support your efforts for a healthy body and mind!