How do you curb your appetite? I'm trying to lose weight and sometimes I get the munchies :|?
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I am on the apple diet... it seems to help with this kinda thing check it out http://applepatchdiet.com/a/jc47443/... other than that if you get a craving at night, fight it... drink water instead... it will fill your stomach and trick your body into thinking that you are full! Or, eat a sweet fruit like strawberries or mango... something that will fill you up and is healthy for you!
Your appetite is your body's way of telling you it's time to eat. If you listen to your body, you will achieve your healthy, maintainable, natural weight.
The only variable you can really control is exercise. Find a method exercise that you enjoy and do it every day. Build muscle. Eat what you want when you are actually hungry and stop before you are stuffed full. Try to eat a balanced diet, but don't limit yourself with a bunch or rules and diets. Diets don't work and are unhealthy in the long run. Only do things that are healthy and that you can do forever, for the rest of your life, like cutting fast food forever. 95 percent of dieters gain it all back in one year and 99 percent do in two years. Dieting is associated with weight gain over a long period of time. You need at least 1200 to 1600 calories every day just to perform basic bodily functions.
If women like you learned to love their bodies, a billion dollar industry that cashes in on insecurities and making people feel like they are not good enough would collapse. Quite frankly, being a little fat isn't as unhealthy as being thin. Anybody who thinks diets or restricting food types is a good idea is uneducated about the human body. Short cuts do not work. Most of the weight you lose is water weight. For health, eat a balanced diet and exercise for the health and endorphins and forget about an ideal shape. The average age a girl starts dieting is 8. 1/3 women are on a diet at any given time. 4/5 US women are unsatisfied with their appearance.
Your body has a set point weight that it wants to be. If you starve yourself, the body will fight back by lowering the metabolism to maintain it's ideal weight.
Limit your tv viewing. 1/4 TV commercials send out a message about attractiveness in this brainwashed society that has been seeing images of beautiful skinny women and mocking chubby people. It's worse for women: look at the number of average or uglier guys on tv and in movies versus the number of women. 30 percent of women in a study rated their ideal shape and it turned out to be 20 percent underweight. Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz meet the clinical requirements for anorexia, and so do 25% of playboy centerfolds. If the flippin mannequins became real women, they wouln't be able to menstruate. Women finally get some rights, but we limit ourselves like this and our bodies are reduced to objects we inspect and criticise. Men decide to only value women for their looks and a thin, attractive wife symbolizes social status for them. Girls call each other fat as the greatest insult they can muster. When did fat become worse than cruel, stupid, dishonest, lazy or cowardly. When did "chubby" start to mean the last four of those things?
We are killing our daughters and wasting our lives trying to meet an ideal that blows. I wish women would get together and fight it instead of letting others control us like this. Unless you are considered obese, or have a BMI of over 25, don't worry about it. Love your body and your confidence will light up the room and give other women permission to love themselves too.
Or you can fight your body and hate it for the rest of your life.
I try to solve this by eating healthy things instead of junk.
Your body will want more you don't the right vitamins. Take a womans multivitamin every day at the same time. Eat 3 or 4 small meals per day. That will increase your metabolism and shrink your stomache. Of coarse, doing push ups in the morning and some situps. Just do as many as you can. This works.
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Well i drink diet soda (2 cals), water (0 cals) and green tea. Green tea is very low cal and curbs appetite. Or i eat low cal foods like carrot.
Hi there. I have to agree with some of the other people - regular exercise is really important in addition to what you eat. The ONLY way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume. Logically, you need to up your activity level to achieve this.
Now, having said that, there are many things to consider when talking about weight gain and loss... There are things that could be contributing to your weight gain that have nothing to do with food.
Do you have a thyroid condition? This could make weight loss difficult as it can lead to lethargy and weight gain (among other things). A simple test can determine this and there are medications to control levels.
Are you on the pill? Many women report weight gain as a side effect of taking birth control and many lose a significant amout of weight after going off. This isn't to say you should go off the pill (yikes!) but you may want to consider a different one.
Do you eat breakfast? If so you are much less likely to binge eat later on. Try to make breakfast your healthiest meal by eating fruit, low fat dairy and whole grains.
Try eating proactively rather than waiting until you are starving. I find that eating something small every 2-3 hours really helps to control calories over the course of a day.
Really take a look at your habits, your daily schedule and what is leading to overeating. You can probably make a few small changes and see results over time.
Hope that helps!
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