I'm hungry! But I'm trying to lose weight. How do I keep from overeating?!?

Answer 1

I'm so proud of you it's a big step to help yourself. :)
I am a personal fitness trainer and enjoy helping people like you every day. :)
Here are basic recommendations that you can start with.

Food as Fuel:

Going without breakfast because you planning a big dinner is as silly as filling up your car's gas tank after you finish the trip. Eat all of the foods that are good for you; all of the grains, vegetables, fruites and lean proteins that you enjoy. Eat 6 small meals a day. Eating smaller meals more often will help to speed up your metabolism. Missing meals slow your metabolism. Also chew your food at least 30-40 times every time you take a bite. This will slow down your meal time and it easier to digest your food.

Hunger can stress the body and trigger the release of cotisol, a hormone that encourages the storage of fat in the abdomen. To keep hunger under control, split your meals and snacks into 5 or 6 minimeals.

Water - Drink TONS of water!

If you add 2-3 liters of water to you diet you will feel better - PROMISE. You will have to use the restroom often, BUT you will loose weight, inches, feel less bloated, and retain less water IF you add water to your diet. Men who are overweight should add up to galon of water a day. Sip throgh out the day for best result.

Your Body Needs Daily Exercise.

The only way to be fit is to exercise on the regular basis: daily if possible. Some benefits of daily exercise are: you don't get sick as often, you have more energy and you sleep better. Exercise doesn't have to be structured.
If it is something you enjoy doing, you'll look forward to it. Walking or riding a bike with your children to school is fun. Even though it may only be a couple of miles, it is something.
If you aren't looking forward to your next workout, do something else. Walking is probably one of the best fat burning exercises you can do - just walk more!

Have Realistic Expectations

You dont get out of shape over night so do not expect to loose weight over night neither. You can loose 10-12 pounds a month just by exercising more - without dieting! I promise you will feel better, get more fit and reach a higher level of satisfaction by starting slowly and expecting moderate weight and measurement losses.
Think within longer time frames, and a pound or two on a scale won't seam so important.

Cross-Training

Every few weeks plan a change in your routine. Note only will your mind be more challenged, your body will have to adapt and the body will benefit from the new stimuli. The body is an amazing adaptable machine. It will begin to burn less fat as an energy source for the same activity if you don't change your programe regularly.

Get 7 to 8 hours of shut-eye a night

Chronic sleep deprivation can raise cortisol levels. It can also drive down levels of the appetite-control hormone leptin, making you feel hungry.

Laugh more

Here's a tactic anyone can stick with! I na stud conducted at Loma Linda University, men and women who watched a humorous video had 30% less cortisol in their blood not only while watching the tape but also up to 24 hours later.

I hope this will help. Email me if you have any questions

Answer 2

Try eating an orange or a granola bar or something healthy, just something small, every two hours. Your less hungry and it does help lose weight since your body can supply nutrients everyhere and your body doesn't need as much food. It's a proven fact. If that doesn't work out, try to work out for a while everyday and your burn calories and your matabolism kick-starts and a bugger matabolism, the more you can eat but still keep the pounds off. I hope this works for you.

Answer 3

Instead of eating three big meals a day, split it into five or six smaller meals throughout the day. This keeps your metabolism up and also curbs your urges to snack between meals.

Also, eat slower. It takes some time for your body to realize it is full. If you eat quickly, it is more likely that you're going to overeat.

If you must snack between meals, grab something healthy like fruit or carrot sticks.

Answer 4

Drink a big glass of water! Wait 5 mins...if you're still hungry, drink another big glass of water.

Answer 5

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I hope this helps! Good Luck!!

Answer 6

Drink a huge glass of water 30-20 minutes till now each and each meal, i opt to advise you to take 3 important foodstuff and 2-3 snack circumstances, consume fuit as snack and fiber, allbran cookies with tips from occasion have fiber and supply you that finished abdomen feeling swifter, additionally attempt to consume your foodstuff very sluggish.

Answer 7

Eat lean protein meats - chicken, turkey, fish, tuna fish things like that. You won't be so hungry.

Answer 8

Instead of eating 3 large meals a day eat 5 very small meals a day. no snacks in between.

Answer 9

Drink water. Go to sleep. eat a carrot. Take a jog. Distract your self some how.

Answer 10

Drink warm glass of water before you eat or a couple cool ones.