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Appetite Control And Weight Loss
A key to any successful weight loss plan or management is of course appetite control. Needless to say restraining it is not as simple as flicking a switch. If it were, overeating would be an easily controllable behavior, and weight loss would be straightforward and trouble-free.
However anyone who has unsuccessfully tried to lose a few inches from around their waist can attest that controlling your appetite can be a very challenging endeavor, to say the least. To assist you in this effort, the following are two methods that you can use that can help keep your appetite in check, thus allowing you to eat fewer calories and lose more weight.
Eat every 2 to 3 hours to control hunger hormones One of the biggest reasons that you eat of course has to do with the feeling of being hungry. This is caused by the ghrelin hormone, which is an appetite stimulant that tells your body that it is time to feed. The hormone is at its highest levels before you eat and at its lowest, after you have finished.
The high levels of the hormone have also been shown to increase storage of fat around your belly, which makes it even more imperative that ghrelin be controlled or suppressed.
To accomplish this, eat every 2 to 3 hours. By doing this, you start to eat out of discipline instead of hunger, which allows you to suppress the ghrelin hormone and better control your appetite.
Watch your carb and sugar intake Research from a doctor at Monash University’s Department of Physiology reported that key appetite control cells in the human brain degenerate over time. The findings stated that these cells are attacked by free radicals after eating, with the most damage being done following meals rich in carbohydrates and sugars.
So not only does those extra sweets cause you to gain excess weight, over time they will also decrease your ability to control your appetite. To counter this, cut back on your simple carbs and sugars. This is especially important if you are between the ages of 25 to 50, which according to the study is the group most at risk.
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