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How to suppress your appetite?
BillieTheBot
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I seriously am eating like a horse at the moment.
I tend to miss breakfast so I know that I should start eating that but is there anything I can take/or do to stop being so hungry throughout the day?
I mean, yesterday, I had a sandwich and packet of crisps for lunch (about 1pm), I found myself hungry again at 4pm so had a mini fudge bar thing (the 15p ones! haha) then I made a stuffed pepper with some potato wedges at tea time (about 6.30pm). I then had some ice cream about 9pm whilst watching telly. What is wrong with me?! I'm just hungry all the time and its not normal!
(I do realise that I ate rather unhealthy food yesterday. I usually eat much better)
I need something to stop me eating so much because otherwise I'm gonna end up putting on weight!
I tend to miss breakfast so I know that I should start eating that but is there anything I can take/or do to stop being so hungry throughout the day?
I mean, yesterday, I had a sandwich and packet of crisps for lunch (about 1pm), I found myself hungry again at 4pm so had a mini fudge bar thing (the 15p ones! haha) then I made a stuffed pepper with some potato wedges at tea time (about 6.30pm). I then had some ice cream about 9pm whilst watching telly. What is wrong with me?! I'm just hungry all the time and its not normal!
(I do realise that I ate rather unhealthy food yesterday. I usually eat much better)
I need something to stop me eating so much because otherwise I'm gonna end up putting on weight!
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Maybe swap the icecream for a yoghurt, and the other snacky things for something slightly more fulfilling to keep you going longer.
I wouldnt say that was compulsive overeating or anything though.
In an average day I have:
2 pieces of toast
apple
banana
sandwich
Either another half of a sandwich or a cereal bar
Maybe a yoghurt
Then have my dinner which is a very nice portion size.
If you want to know what eating loads is...
For breakfast:
2 Arabic breads with melted cheese
orange juice
and a cup of chai
Midday snack
Either a small meal (consisting of rice and meat) or more commonly a roast beef bagette sandwich
strawberry smoothie
Chai
arabic stuffed vine leave/dolma's
Lunch
Whatever my mum cooked or rice and curry (at omars)
Dinner
a starter
salad
A big huge meal, or two small meals
And if i didnt eat this much i would be starving to death! And even when i did eat....garauntteed within three hours i would be raiding the fridge for snacks i left out (including full 1 pint tubs of ice cream)
So yes...v unhealthy....but think breakfast is the key really!!:yes:
That's what I was thinking! I'd say it's less that a normal person, if anything.
I must eat twice as much as that (I am a bit greedy though). When I was hungry all the time and a bit worried about eating myself to death, I was eating this kind of amount in a day:
9am - 2 bowls of cereal
11am - 3 slices of toast
12pm - chocolate bar
1pm - sandwich, crisps
3pm - snack (whatever I could find - toast, sandwich, cakes, biscuits)
5pm - another snack (again whatever I could find)
7pm - normal sized evening meal
8pm til bedtime - constantly grazing on anything and everything
To be honest I don't see the problem?
Seriously, that is not enough food.
A typical day for me is (this is yesterday):
Porridge, dried fruit, Actimel thing and some smoothie for breakfast.
Morning snack of fruit and protein shake.
Lunch, sandwich (smoked salmon, extra light cream cheese and sun dried tomatoes), fruit and some other stuff.
Afternoon snack of sandwich (Chicken salad) protein shake and fruit.
Dinner, couple of jacket potatoes, steak, salad.
Then more stuff later in the evening.
... and no, I'm not working out at the moment, that's just how much I eat (approx 11 stones in weight and very little body fat) or I am hungry all the time.
You're not even CLOSE to the 'recommended' 3 square meals a day, and miles from the true recommendation of 6 small meals through the day.
If you're not eating enough, your body starts storing more as fat, as it goes into a form of starvation mode...............
2 slices of fruit bread toasted with butter
Apple
Yoghurt
2x Doritos
Pasta for tea
ohh dear
Erm - no, that would be LOW GI...
A low GI diet is far healthier, and porridge etc etc fall into this, not high
Actually, I think I am going to be shocked to hear what you eat on a normal day if you think that is a lot...???
Oh yeah dats what I meant.
thats what im like at the moment :no: i dont want to be eating that much, but just cant help it! after christmas i dieted and i lost 11lbs, but in the last 5 weeks ive been eating complete and utter crap and have no doubt put it all back on. every single pair of trousers i own are getting too snug (and condsidering a few pairs of them were practically falling off me before the 5 weeks, this is BAD!!)
i think starting from tomorrow im going to HAVE to get myself back on track. im not even going to bother what ive been eating on a daily basis because its so awful
I tend to avoid eating the junk side of food, although am enjoying one of those 8 chunk Dairy Milk thangs right now. Gotta have a treat now and again!
Eat breakfast. Seriously. Look in the name, it's a break from fasting overnight, you need something in your stomach in the morning, and a small snack at around 11am to keep you going until lunch. You shouldn't even be thinking about trying to suppress your appetite, your body is telling you to eat for a reason.
Ok, sandwich and packet of crisps for lunch - you're blood sugar would already be very low by then. If the bread in the sandwich is white + crisps will cause your insulin to spike - then slump, so obviously you'll be craving more at 4pm, in which you had a sugary snack - again, spike and slump. A stuffed pepper is good, if you want to have something with potato, try to make it yourself i.e. your own wedges with spices as opposed to shop bought things with hidden additives. Ice cream so late in the day would again cause a spike and slump, are you sleeping ok? And then I'm assuming no breakfast again, so you wouldn't have had anything to eat for at least 12 hours? I'm not suprised you're hungry all the time.
What really scares me is that with all that info, you're concerned about putting on weight - you will put on weight this way as you're not eating enough, and you're not eating enough of the right things - your body isn't silly, and it will cause any energy to be stored as fat. Vicious cycle.
I tend to eat around 6 times a day, 3 small meals and snacks in between. I never feel hungry throughout the day, and have enough energy to work out and do my daily tasks. I've been doing this since Jan, and trust me, it's such a better way to live your life, rather than focusing on '3 square meals'
Have a read through these articles, there's some very good info
Basic nutrition
Why diets don't work
Some info on carbs
Thanks for backing me up here
I didn't have enough time to go into as much detail, but you're spot on.
Smaller meals means you're less bloated, and your body receives nourishment throughout the day, as opposed to in chunks.
I used skip breakfast and graze on junk throughout the day but I have now got a little routine and it works. Never skip breakfast!!
A normal day for me is
Weetabix at about 7am
Fruit or yogurt at about 10am
Lunch at 1pm. Normally a salad or wholemeal sandwich. I love crisps so I make my own veggie crisps with beetroot, parsnips and carrots and have them instead. (I just make a big batch at the weekend and they stay fresh if stored right)
Fruit or yogurt at about 4pm
Normal portion of dinner at about 7pm
And then maybe some dried fruit or a naughty snack like chocolate in the evening.
However, drinking water is always a good one but i find eating like every 3 hrs works well too even if you are not starving, you should eat something small though, not huge meals. Keeps your metabolism ticking over.
Also, i found that if you put a lot of effort into exericse for a long period of time, that you can stop, and keep a high metabolism up just by eating healthly and regularly. Plus, if you eat, your concentration increases because you aint thinking about food. Hope it helps
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