One of the main reasons that people cheat on their diets or just give up altogether is that frankly, they get hungry.
And being hungry all the time is difficult to live with for a single day, much less for weeks or a few months.
Here are some tips to make sure that hunger pains don’t derail all of your hard work.
Don’t skip breakfast, or you will be starving and cranky by mid-morning.
A breakfast with complex carbs and low fat protein will help stave off snack attacks.
Plan your day in advance.
Make sure that you have some low calorie snacks and drinks with you. Drink plenty of water and eat snacks like celery, carrots or apple slices.
Make sure that you have some fat included in your diet - you need it.
Choose healthy fats, like olive oil.
Take note of what times of day you become hungry and plan your meals and snacks accordingly.
If you always cave in around 3 p.m., schedule a snack for 2:30 and drink a big glass of water too.
Don’t cut your calories too drastically. It will make your metabolism slow down and cause you to be plagued with hunger all of the time.
Eat several servings of bulky low calorie foods a day.
Broccoli, cauliflower, salads, most any raw vegetable… these will fill you up and help stave off hunger.
Stay away from sugary snacks and simple carbohydrates like honey buns, cake and donuts.
If you eat these sugary snacks your blood sugar will soar, and then it will crash and you will find yourself irritable, jittery and famished.
Eat sufficient protein.
Scientific studies show that proteins leave people feeling full longer than carbohydrates.
Eat complex carbohydrates half an hour to an hour before exercising to fuel your workout session and also so you don’t end up feeling absolutely ravenous afterwards.
It may be a challenge at first going through those “hunger pains”, but it will be worth it in the long run once you have lost the weight and look great.
So hang tough!
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