Hunger is, first of all, a signal of a body of the physiological processes and biochemical reactions happening in it. You feel hungry when sugar level in blood falls also in the center of a brain, the managing director of appetite, arrives information on it. When during a rigid diet you too limit yourself, hunger becomes your faithful companion.
Instruction
1. Usually during tight restrictions there is a substitution of the correct physiological hunger on the wrong psychological hunger. From a diet wrong hunger is always the cornerstone of failure. Later, at regular failures, it becomes the reason of systematic overeating and a bigger set of weight. When psychological hunger begins to operate your food behavior, you lose physical contact with the body. For example, you cease to distinguish hunger and thirst. It seems to you that you want to eat, and actually you are thirsty.
2. How to fight against overeating and psychological hunger.
3. It is necessary to distinguish the correct hunger from wrong. The correct (physiological) hunger is followed by unpleasant feelings in a stomach. If in time didn't eat, the weakness because of falling of level of sugar in blood can appear. Psychological hunger arises in response to your some emotion. For example, you were upset because of a remark of the chief concerning your work and you suddenly wanted to have a bite something tasty. Most likely, you don't want to eat, you just want to jam unpleasant emotion. In this case it is possible to recommend to drink a cup of fragrant tea without sweeties. Mint tea well kills desire to eat sweet, camomile tea calms nerves, lime tea has sweetish taste and pleasant aroma. It is important to accustom itself to monitor negative reactions and to leave gradually from the habitual scenario ""I took offense - I ate"".
4. At eksternalny type of food behavior the wrong hunger is provoked by external irritants, for example, advertizing of tasty products, beautiful show-windows with cakes. The most important recommendation in this case - you go to shops full. If sugar level in blood is increased (after a meal), you won't want to buy and eat superfluous.
5. It is always desirable to have at itself a small container with useful having a snack - cherry tomatoes, vegetable cutting, apples, carrot straws. Such having a snack will allow you not to reach a condition of strong physiological hunger at which there is a wish to buy more ""harmful"" food in shop.
6. Physiological hunger passes through half an hour after a meal (just then sugar level in blood reaches the necessary point and the brain gives a signal of saturation). Therefore, having had a bite something noncaloric, wait half an hour, you don't hurry to muffle quicker feeling of hunger, give to an organism time for assimilation of eaten. If in half an hour all of you still want to eat cakes, then think what pain you try ""jam"" what emotion discomposed you. Psychological hunger can't be satisfied with the ""correct"" food, it doesn't depend on sense of fulness, such hunger wants to be satisfied with something sweet and fat, for example, cake or chocolate. The fact is that from the very beginning of life the taste of breast milk is for the baby a signal of comfort and safety, and taste at it just sweet and fat. Therefore at psychological discomfort the person instinctively wants to stay in safety - to feel taste of cake. It is important to monitor your reactions to negative irritants and to look for alternative ways of restoration of comfort.
7. And, at last, the simplest rule which will help you to reestablish communication with the body. If you wanted to eat, drink a glass of water and wait a little. Perhaps, through feeling of hunger your thirst is shown. So happens, when there is no habit to listen to the organism and to react adequately to its signals and requirements. At the correct drinking mode you will drink about 6 - 7 glasses of water a day. Water should be drunk for half an hour before the planned meal. Distribute this norm for all day and you will see that the feeling of hunger strongly decreased.