All the science and advice, special diet strategies and weight loss programs, take dead aim at having you eat less. They just have different ways to get you to do that. Most fail.
So, if you are already surrounded with that key “eat less” information, why don’t you do it? Why can’t you control your appetite. Why are you frequently giving in to your cravings?
It’s not that you lack self control. You are a responsible adult – of course you have self control. So, why can’t you control your appetite?
Because what you are already eating compels you to eat more. And what you are not eating creates strong cravings.
Your diet, especially restricted calorie diets like Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, and NutriSystem, all set you up for failure, even if some give you short term results. Long term, after being on a diet, you not only regain your lost weight, if you are like most people you add an additional 10 pounds within a year.
Controlling your appetite is where successful weight loss begins. Cutting your cravings is how you keep in control of your life.
So, how do you control your appetite and cut your cravings?
Rule 1: Eat BEFORE you are hungry
Rule 1A: Always follow Rule 1
Once you are hungry you will do two things, and you won’t be able to stop yourself. First, you’ll eat more – probably about 300 calories more. Second, you’ll store those extra calories as fat. (Of course there is science that amply prove that, but we are just giving you the shorthand version here).
At that point, forget your will power. Your body is on remote control. YOU WILL EAT NOW. YOU WILL EAT FAST. YOU WILL OVER EAT. AND YOU WILL STORE THOSE EXTRA CALORIES AS FAT.
How do you control your appetite and cut your cravings?
Conclusion 1:Eat BEFORE you get hungry
Next to come…
How do you control your appetite?
Rule 2: Don’t Eat Appetizers
3 thoughts on “Eat Less: Rule 1 to Control Your Appetite”
I have NEVER heard that before but it makes complete sense!! WOW!! It’s almost like one of those things where you hear it and a light bulb goes off! So simple but something you never heard of…
I’m guilty. I rarely take time to eat right, or eat at all. Then I totally pig out when I eat 🙂
How true that all is!! Although I don’t really want to say this I think getting diabetes which forces me to eat properly and when I’m hungry (actually before) and much healthier then I had been, was what has caused me to lose weight FINALLY! I have the diabetes under control now but I can testify that low blood sugar is possibly the worst feeling in the world—–