How to deal with overeating: useful tips
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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No matter how we try to pacify our appetite, sometimes it can be very difficult, and such weaknesses lead us to overeating and heaviness in the stomach. We have several tips to help control food intake and prevent appetite racing.
Less snacks
Do not try to satisfy your hunger with raids on the refrigerator, grabbing a cake or ice cream. It is best to eat normally than to grab one or the other. This will only lead to the fact that you swallow a little bit of everything, and in the end - a full stomach and no good.
How not to break the diet
If you stick to a certain diet and, for example, do not allow yourself to eat fried or flour, which has already begun to dream at night, then you are at risk. One day you can just break yourself and frighten your stomach, which from such a surprise will only be "upset". So do not expose yourself to such torments, but still occasionally satisfy your desires, allowing yourself to eat a bun or a juicy steak.
Ask yourself questions
Find out once and for all why, when you realize that it's time to stop, and push aside a plate of food, this can not be done. Before you take on the fork again, tune in to the fact that you are stronger than your stomach and your desires.
Eat slowly
Enjoy every bit of it and chew it carefully, unlearn the habit of throwing all the food for yourself, as if you are late for the train. Slow absorption of food and pleasure in taste will enable the brain to understand what are you doing at the moment and it will send a signal of saturation.
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Know the size of your portions
Get yourself a separate plate, in which will be placed as much food as you can eat without being obovshis. And in the event that you bought a pack of crackers or chips, do not eat directly from the package, pour everything into the plate, so you can control the process of eating.
Do not eat in front of the TV screen
The most unfavorable trio that can affect the size of your waist is a TV, sofa and food. When viewing an interesting program, we rarely look at the plate and do not even feel the taste of food.
Do not make outings to the kitchen
Forbid yourself to sneak into the kitchen, knowing that there remained the remains of a delicious dinner. Involve all the willpower, but in the kitchen - no foot.
Brush your teeth after eating
The taste of a peppermint paste will perish the aftertaste of the breakfast, lunch or dinner, and will not allow the desire to eat another piece of something to do your black business.