i was checking inet when i discovered that...............? please serious replies only?

Question

i was checking internet and i discovered that hunger pangs during deiting can be avioded by taking chromium supplement. i started it on the monday every day 1 chromium polycinate supplement 200 mg ...but now i feel pressure buliding up on the nose ears. It feels as of nose and ears memberanes are going to burst out and would be flowing out with full pressure ..........as if a running water tap.......... THough my hunger is under control but the pressure is hurting me ..........PLease can anybody suggest me an alternative method to control eating desires. Thanx for your serious, sincere and concerned replies..................Meenu

Answer 1

When hunger pangs strike, your body is telling you to eat. Feed it. But be smart in your choices. Non-fat, Lite yogurt packs a wallop in terms of protein and with only 80 calories, how could you go wrong? Drugs will never replace a healthy lifestyle. BTW, I've never heard of chromium causing sinus pressure. Have you checked with the doctor about sinusitis or an ear infection?

Answer 2

For a few days, stop taking the chromium and see what happens. It may be that the effects you describe are only coincidental--that is, they were going to happen anyway--because usually chromium picolinate at those dosages has no side effects. You may be different, however. Stop it for a bit and see if the pressure in your ears goes away. The side effects could be serious. Maybe not, but stopping couldn't hurt. Keeping going could.

As to controlling eating desires, actually (I'm sorry to have to tell you this because it sounds as though you do not want to hear it), the best method is taking your time, struggling through the frustration that changing any habit causes us, and letting yourself get used to eating less. You will do it. I promise.

Our problems come when we think we can or should do it too quickly. These things take time.

You're probably doing this for the wrong reason. I only say that because most of us do. We start trying to control our hunger because we want to lose weight, but that will not work. What will happen is that, we lose the weight (which was our goal), and then we lose the reason and motivation for keeping on the diet, so we go right back to doing what we did that made us want to lose the weight to begin with.

What you really need to do is to realize that you need a change in lifestyle, which includes eating habits. Permanently. After one to three months of changes in your lifestyle and eating habits, you'll begin to get used to them. After a year, they'll be natural to you, and you won't have to worry about them. You'll think about them, because we do tend to feel hunger long before we really are hungry (learn the difference between a hunger pang out of habit and true hunger), but you'll recognize them and have no trouble keeping them under control.

It really depends on what you want to do. If you want to lose weight, that's what you'll do...again and again and again. If you want to live a healthy lifestyle, then that's what you'll do for the rest of your life.

Which do you want?

Answer 3

Caffiene. is one way to control hunger. Most of the expensive diet pills out are mostly caffiene. YOu can buy caffiene pills at Wal-Mart for about 3 dollars a box. But it will mak eyou jumpy.

Eat a dozen little meals a day.

Fill up on green beands, spinach, lettuce, etc.

Stay busy doing things that keep your mind off hunger.

Get a photograph, in color of something really gross, something that make you sick. Take it out and look at it when you get hungry.

Answer 4

Its mind over matter. Increase your water and fiber intake...pills are only a short term solution to the problem..you have to train your body without using drugs. Eat less processed foods and more fresh with low salt.

Answer 5

I hear hoodia is good, but I must say it didn't work for me. However, I think that's because my hunger was actually psychological (boredom, fatigue, etc).

Try adding more fiber into your diet. Fiber expands in your stomach, which keeps you full longer. And of course it helps to clean you out.

Good luck :-}