After 12 years in the fitness industry and hundreds of fitness challenges, competitions, clients and study, you can ask any dieter and she will tell you that the hardest part of losing weight is feeling hungry. And that can be a huge monkey wrench in your attempts to manage a healthy weight.
But not only is going hungry no fun, it is also not practical over the long haul. You can only live with hunger pains for so long. After a while, you will likely grow tired of being miserably hungry and just give up altogether. Thankfully, there is another solution. You just need to know which foods to eat when you get hungry.
Choosing the right foods is critical, because you want to fill up your stomach but not with foods that are going to lead to more weight gain. The trick is to eat food that is low calorie but high density. You will be able to eat a lot more food if you eat 400 calories of raw veggies than if you eat 400 calories of steak, for example.
Now of course you will need to eat other things than just raw veggies, but you will still have calories left over in your eating plan to go ahead and eat some other foods like nuts, beans and whole grains. Those high fiber foods are going to take up a lot of room in your stomach and stay there a while too, because your body takes longer to digest fiber than it does some other foods.
The result? More food, less calories, less hunger, more weight loss! You see, the longer you are full and the more satisfied you feel, few instances of 'cheating' you will have to deal with. You will have more will power available if you feel comfortably full.
Keep this tip in mind the next time you feel hungry. Try to find some low calorie, high density foods to fill up on. Keep them in your office, car and kitchen at home. You will find that losing weight gets a whole lot easier as a result!
But not only is going hungry no fun, it is also not practical over the long haul. You can only live with hunger pains for so long. After a while, you will likely grow tired of being miserably hungry and just give up altogether. Thankfully, there is another solution. You just need to know which foods to eat when you get hungry.
Choosing the right foods is critical, because you want to fill up your stomach but not with foods that are going to lead to more weight gain. The trick is to eat food that is low calorie but high density. You will be able to eat a lot more food if you eat 400 calories of raw veggies than if you eat 400 calories of steak, for example.
Now of course you will need to eat other things than just raw veggies, but you will still have calories left over in your eating plan to go ahead and eat some other foods like nuts, beans and whole grains. Those high fiber foods are going to take up a lot of room in your stomach and stay there a while too, because your body takes longer to digest fiber than it does some other foods.
The result? More food, less calories, less hunger, more weight loss! You see, the longer you are full and the more satisfied you feel, few instances of 'cheating' you will have to deal with. You will have more will power available if you feel comfortably full.
Keep this tip in mind the next time you feel hungry. Try to find some low calorie, high density foods to fill up on. Keep them in your office, car and kitchen at home. You will find that losing weight gets a whole lot easier as a result!
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About the author: Vito La Fata is a fitness expert who can give you tips on how to eat to lose weight. Visit his site for more information on getting in shape and on how to reduce calories to lose weight.
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