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What to eat to lose weight?
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Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
In constant pursuit of the ideal, which especially concerns women, they can make a lot of efforts to lose weight and reach the weight that is seen as optimal. Many, choosing for themselves the method by which it becomes possible to achieve the desired result, opt for all sorts of diets. Thus, it becomes relevant to determine which of the dietary prescriptions and recommendations are the most acceptable and are distinguished by the highest efficiency, in other words - what to eat to lose weight?
Gherelin, also known as the hunger hormone, is responsible for the feeling of hunger. Its discovery occurred relatively recently, and it is present in the body to an extremely high degree in such a psychosomatic disease as anorexia.
You can overcome hunger and the resulting need to constantly “eat away” food, which leads to the accumulation of excess body weight, by following these principles.
Protein foods are the first to help you achieve satiety and maintain this feeling for a long time.
It is also important to avoid overeating and to eat only at that stage of hunger which is in the interval closer to the middle of an imaginary scale, on one end of which is acute hunger, and on the other side is absolute satiety.
A wonderful way to bring your diet to the optimum is the fractional nutrition system. Its essence is that the total daily amount of food is divided into 5 meals, between which there should be no more than 3 hours. It is necessary that the body receives 400 kcal three times a day, each time, and 200 kcal during two snacks, respectively.
Thus, it can be argued that what is of particular importance is not so much what to eat in order to lose weight, but the organization of a proper diet and the choice of dishes and products that are well balanced in terms of satisfying hunger without having excess calories.