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RISING WOMEN EXPERT
ADVICE...
How can I control my appetite?
The problem with diets is if you go on a diet at some point, you expect to
come off it, and that can create more weight gain because you then give
yourself permission to eat all the things you denied before. Research has
provided evidence that almost no one can stick to any diet because of our
appetite. So to be successful at weight loss, we need to learn more about
controlling our appetites.
Appetite is defined as the natural instinctive and desire for food. Many
people confuse hunger with appetite. Hunger is the body’s need for
nourishment, so when your body needs fuel, you feel hunger. However, we eat
for many reasons besides hunger; we eat for time of day, to celebrate,
commiserate, to socialize, and for reward. Plus a lot of our eating is due
to emotional reasons rather than true hunger.
Be aware that advertising is covert hypnosis, so we are being influenced
through our televisions to want all that extra sugar and trans fat that is
being marketed to us by fast food restaurants, which have billion dollar
budgets to spend on advertising. Know that this affects your appetite as it
works on your desire for the food -- and this happens every day if you are
watching TV, so mute those adverts! According to a study published in the
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, if we ate a diet based on TV
ads, we would eat 2560 percent of the recommended daily servings for sugars,
and 2080 percent of the recommended daily servings of fat.
Some tips to help you address appetite control includes eating slowly and
really chewing your food. This will allow the signal from stomach to brain
to register “I am satisfied” before you have stuffed more in your stomach
than you need. This takes around 20 minutes, so take your time to eat.
Realize that your stomach is the size of your cupped hands (closed), so that
is all you need for a serving of food.
Other tips include avoiding refined carbohydrates, drink plenty of water on
a regular basis, and make sure you have fibre in your diet. As far as
cravings and emotional eating, various hypnotic and NLP techniques help us
to eliminate old conditioned responses, which we have learned from the past.
When your appetite has been addressed and any compulsion to overeat has been
dealt with, you can easily stick to any type of healthy eating so that it
becomes a permanent lifestyle change.
For more advice on appetite or how to address emotional eating,
contact Claire Bramham, Clinical Hypnotherapist at Mind & Body Therapy at
403.397.0011 or through her website at
www.mindandbodytherapy.ca
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