Lots of advice about diet, however, one undeniable fact, we always eat too much. Now, at least two-thirds of American adults have the obesity. In average, the weight of men and women body now increasing about 8 kg (18 pounds) than the average man in the 1970s. In the meantime, part of the brain that regulates hunger, the hypothalamus has not evolved since 30 years ago. So, it was clear that this related to our intake. In order not to increase again, you can try to do the following things to control your appetite.
1. Give hunger “rating”
Before you chew or put something in his mouth, gave ratings of how you feel in your stomach on a scale of 1 to 5. Score 1 for very hungry and score 5 for satiety. When you reach the score rating 4-5, that’s mean it doesn’t came from physical and you don’t need to eat. So you need to find out more what makes you want to eat. The most common reasons for eating while on the score rating 4-5 because of boredom or stress. Way to overcome such as by conducting activities that don’t relate to the activities of eating, for example, mingle with friends, a walk, or reading.
2. Think about what you eat
External stimuli are often disturbing when we were eating. These disturbances often make us eat without thinking how much we eat. An experiment had been done that subjects eat soup from a bowl that was given filler pipe on the bottom. During their dinner, keep the bowl filled with soup from the bottom without their knowledge. The result, they are able to eat foods 73 percent more than those who ate from regular bowls. This means: eating enough needed attention, planning, and the ability to hold back.
3. Alert triggers
The End of overeating, theorized that we eat when not hungry because the combination of fat, sugar, and salt contained in the snack is difficult for us to reject. The more food we eat, the more dopamine (the neurotransmitter associated with pleasure) that produced our brains, the more we consume. Over time, the mere sight or smell of certain foods, it is enough to make your brain active part of our satisfaction.
For that, it suggested to choose snacks that don’t pass processing and not much fat, sugar, and salt. Plan to eat meals and snacks away from time. Avoid trigger situations (if your home is through the bakery, choose another route), or imagine the actual food is not good for you with the unpleasant images (eg, associate ice cream with a fat stack).
4. Foods with content
People are not too BASED on the number of calories / create to indicate they are full. In contrast, humans are more often stuffed with a view indicating the number or amount of food in front of them, do some tricks to your body. Choose foods that contain lots of water, such as vegetables, fruits, and clear soup.
Protein and fiber can also help a person achieve satiety without overeating. Foods such as salmon, chicken breast, nonfat yogurt, low-fat cheese, vegetables, oatmeal, peas, and chicken-vegetable soup can be an option.
