How do you deal with hunger?

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  • unawind
    unawind Posts: 46 Member
    edited March 2016
    Season and spice your food well. Make and add low calorie sauces. Learning to cook well can make dieting less of a chore. I find I'm more satisfied with smaller portions of more flavorful food, especially spicy food.

    Water-based soups and hot teas are great for hunger satiation. Fills your belly with high volume, low calorie goodness. Something about it being hot makes it more satisfying than just cold water.
  • KatherinePM
    KatherinePM Posts: 22 Member
    Not sure if I'm right but compulsive overeating may be a lot to do with habit and phsycology. Kind of like giving up smoking without the physical addiction part (the physiological barrier is the hardest to break). A lot of it is your WILL power and breaking down the psychological barriers and habitual routine. Like smoking (which I haven't yet mastered), it takes time and discipline and an element of mindfulness to cease. Plus you will always be susceptible to again overeating or smoking so just be mindful of that too. Again I don't have any evidence to support this theory, it's just a bit of self analysis.
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,032 Member
    MsPinkyButtercup wrote: »
    kristieshannon wrote: »
    For me, it took a shift in thinking. I spent so many years NEVER feeling physical hunger pangs because I was eating so much, all the time. Then my hunger was all based in my head and what the latest thing I was craving. Now I realize that the physical feeling of hunger is normal. I eat my meals as planned, and by the time the next meal time rolls around my body tells me, through that grumbly tummy feeling, that it's time to eat. It took me a couple weeks to realize it's ok to feel a little hungry as I approach the next meal time. I know intellectually that I'm fueling my body properly, and I'm losing at a healthy rate. This is the new normal for me and I'm feeling at peace with it.

    That is an amazing perspective. I actually have the same issue as the person who started this thread and what you said makes perfect sense. Thank you for sharing.

    :)
  • bellabonbons
    bellabonbons Posts: 705 Member
    You could be eating too many refined carbohydrates.
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