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silkyuk9
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Need a bit of help,
ive always been i bit of a binger with food, nothing drastic. but after meals i find im wanting a few biscuits or some chocolate. on an evening want a bag of crisps, the usual stuff. well, i want to try a appetite suppresent, but can someone reccomend one.
i do excercise and walk miles so i dont want some one suggesting that.
this is nothing heavy but i thought i might try something like this.
ive always been i bit of a binger with food, nothing drastic. but after meals i find im wanting a few biscuits or some chocolate. on an evening want a bag of crisps, the usual stuff. well, i want to try a appetite suppresent, but can someone reccomend one.
i do excercise and walk miles so i dont want some one suggesting that.
this is nothing heavy but i thought i might try something like this.
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You are not really snacking in the evening because of appetite though are you. If you were full up and the biscuits and crisps were in the cupboard you would still want them because you have got into a habit of snacking on them, and they taste good, you need a treat after a hard day, etc. First of all don't buy biscuits and crisps at all. If your kids need it for a lunchbox then buy them on the way to school daily. Make sure you have no rubbish like that in the house. Snacks can be strawberries, grapes, other nice fruits, perhaps nuts and raisins.
Make sure you eat a good breakfast - protein based. Eat protein at every meal as a solely carbohydrate meal will leave you hungry. A very large grilled chicken, fish or meat dinner with jacket potato and microwaved or steamed veg - such as those lovely sweet button brussel sprouts, baby carrrots or cauli, will leave you feeling full. Some sugar-free jelly to finish off perhaps. I make mine topping up with milk instead of water once it is dissolved and cool.
Try the above for a month and see how things are. Also often thirst is mistaken for hunger so drink lots.
Believe me you want to avoid medication for appetite. You simply need to eat properly and train your brain to eat nutritious, colourful, healthy food - three meals a day with healthy snacks.0 -
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Its all very well taking an appetite suppressant but you really need to work out why your eating as much as you feel you are.
If it were purely because you were hungry then fine. But its rarely that way for anyone. For most people it can be a sort of chemical dependency (on the sugar or the refined foods or certain fats or a mixture of those). Its well known that its easy to become addicted to refined foods as the energy is easy for out bodies to obtain. This gives us a sugar rush as well as a mood boost, but after 20 mins its over. The its all too common to eat more of the same to get the same boost, we are searching for a sugar boost but the additional calories from the fats and sugars in those foods we already ate are surplus to requirements and just get stored as body fat.
It can also be psychological: certain foods raise out endorphins more then other foods. This makes us feel better--but only for a little while. The 'feel better' feeling wears off and we feel our moods drop subtly. This then boosts another hormone: Dopamine(sp!) which has us go out and search for a replacement of this food. Its a vicious cycle as no one wants to feel low and the more we eat, the more we want to eat, it becomes a comfort cycle.
Neither of the two explanations above are due to feeling hungry. An appetite suppressant will not help those types of cravings.
The best thing you can do is try to rethink how you eat: food is fuel not a support measure. Learn to keep yourself in check but not shoot yourself down if you go off once in a while (as this will make you feel low...will make you want to eat). Its often the case that a good chat/discussion/cry with a mate can really help things and work much better then food can.
Exercise is a great for helping regulate your appetite due to the endorphins a good workout (30 mins plus) can bring. But you don't have to go all out at a circuit class or sign up to Army training (unless you want to!) even a brisk walk can help. Try adding an additional walk in to your day, added at key moments like after dinner where you may have wanted to have seconds, go out for a walk, can really help you out and best thing? no fears of messing with your brain chemistry!0 -
I think you have summed it up nicely there jenniewb!
I kind of have the opposite problem, but the same result. I seem to have no appetite, and my metabolism isn't great, so I tend to have to remind myself to eat!
As I'm not often home with much spare time, when I do remember to eat, it can often be on-the-go, so something not v healthy.0 -
piratefairy wrote: »I think you have summed it up nicely there jenniewb!
I kind of have the opposite problem, but the same result. I seem to have no appetite, and my metabolism isn't great, so I tend to have to remind myself to eat!
As I'm not often home with much spare time, when I do remember to eat, it can often be on-the-go, so something not v healthy.
You need to preplan everything with food- make time for it and eat with consideration in moderation. Its easy to take your eye off the ball and eat too much or the wrong things.
I watched a documentary a few months back which said that as humans, we are all built to overeat- its in our genes. Why? because 10000s of years ago we had no other option then to binge-starve as food was scarce and if we did not binge and eat everything, we'd die as our next meal was not always around the corner.
Hence its like an uphill battle for many people to rely on how their appetite feels and eat accordingly- its hard to stop! Its better to try to consider how your body feels and try to understand it. Doing that does not come overnight, it can take years of good practice and falling on your @ss once in a while before obtaining a good pattern -thats in the face of life and all the parties, job losses and crazy family things which make it even harder!
If you set out a plan to work out what you NEED to eat rather then purely going on appetite or time schedual, you stand a better chance of getting a healthy pattern going. Its then important to stick with it and make time for it rather then eating without fully being aware- its when we are not fully aware that we can slide back into hold (and 10000s of years old I might add!) eating habits.0 -
haha, i don't find that i eat too much, just when i do it's often the wrong things - ie. a prepacked sandwich, or a pack of carrot sticks, whcih aren't exactly great for me...the one thing i do manage to eat ewnough of is fruit, as i have implemented a fruit bowl at work, mainly to remind me to eat something at least.0
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piratefairy wrote: »haha, i don't find that i eat too much, just when i do it's often the wrong things - ie. a prepacked sandwich, or a pack of carrot sticks, whcih aren't exactly great for me...the one thing i do manage to eat ewnough of is fruit, as i have implemented a fruit bowl at work, mainly to remind me to eat something at least.
But thats exactly the same thing- its about not listening to our brains and going on a biological urge to eat-eat-eat when we are actually full. Its alot easier to over step that mark with the prepacked sort of foods as they are normally high in things like refined sugars. This adds another complication to the battle as sugar drops can make us crave eating what we just stopped eating and often to a greater degree. (Think: Pringles 'once you pop, you can't stop'). Whilst I am not saying never eat any prepackaged foods again, be aware that its not so easy to ignore the cravings for more. Bit of a battle!
Good luck with the fruit bowl idea- I love fruit! (I eat too much of it though...) the more you decide to eat fruit, the more of a habit it becomes and it can really become a part of your daily eating habits.0 -
Yes, it works really well Jennie, I often find that all I eat is fruit during the day,a nd then just have to remember to eat some dinner when I get home.
My problem is that I feel full all the time, even if I havn't eaten anything all day, hence not having that "hungry" feeling to remind me to eat at sensible times.0
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