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magua · 01-12-2004, 07:48 PM

If you have serious hunger control issues, you may have something physically wrong with you. See a doctor.

That aside: your goal here is to eat as much as you can, to feel the fullest, while consuming the least number of calories.

The first thing is, don't have a lot of food around you. Don't keep the pantry well stocked. If you're watching TV or using the computer, leave the food in the kitchen, and everytime you want another handful, go and get it and come back. If the food is easy accessible or nearby, you'll eat more.

Related to this is portion control. Take a little bit of food, go off, and eat it. If you make, for instance, spaghetti, and load your plate up, you make it very easy to eat a lot (or all of it) before your body decides its not hungry. Take a little, leave the area, eat it, and then return. Taking longer will give your body more time to decide its full.

The second point is, don't starve yourself. You'll just gorge more in the end.

The third thing is, drink lots of water. It's cheap -- cheaper than any other liquid. Use Crystal Light if you want a change in taste.

But, anyways, avoid sugar. Don't act like it'll kill you, but avoid it nonetheless. It's empty calories, and it won't make you feel any fuller. A 12 oz can of soda is 140 calories, and you'll feel just as hungry twenty minutes later. Better to sit down and eat a chocolate bar than drink a soda or eat sugar cereal -- both are bad, but at least the chocolate bar will have you feeling fuller longer.

Salads are your friends. Grocery stores sell packaged salads, and it's something like 240 calories if you eat _the entire bag_. Jello-O comes in sugar free pudding varieties -- I believe an entire box is 380 calories -- and 180 of those come from the skim milk that you use. Light popcorn is also pretty nice -- Healthy Pop's light popcorn is something on the order of 250 calories for an entire bag (plus lots of fiber).

In general, no matter what you eat, there's some version of it that's better for you. But if you feel you must eat constantly, and can't stop, you're not going to lose weight -- 3000 calories a day is 3000 calories a day, even if it's all salad and vegetables.

01-12-2004, 07:48 PM	#18 (permalink)
magua Tilted	If you have serious hunger control issues, you may have something physically wrong with you. See a doctor. That aside: your goal here is to eat as much as you can, to feel the fullest, while consuming the least number of calories. The first thing is, don't have a lot of food around you. Don't keep the pantry well stocked. If you're watching TV or using the computer, leave the food in the kitchen, and everytime you want another handful, go and get it and come back. If the food is easy accessible or nearby, you'll eat more. Related to this is portion control. Take a little bit of food, go off, and eat it. If you make, for instance, spaghetti, and load your plate up, you make it very easy to eat a lot (or all of it) before your body decides its not hungry. Take a little, leave the area, eat it, and then return. Taking longer will give your body more time to decide its full. The second point is, don't starve yourself. You'll just gorge more in the end. The third thing is, drink lots of water. It's cheap -- cheaper than any other liquid. Use Crystal Light if you want a change in taste. But, anyways, avoid sugar. Don't act like it'll kill you, but avoid it nonetheless. It's empty calories, and it won't make you feel any fuller. A 12 oz can of soda is 140 calories, and you'll feel just as hungry twenty minutes later. Better to sit down and eat a chocolate bar than drink a soda or eat sugar cereal -- both are bad, but at least the chocolate bar will have you feeling fuller longer. Salads are your friends. Grocery stores sell packaged salads, and it's something like 240 calories if you eat _the entire bag_. Jello-O comes in sugar free pudding varieties -- I believe an entire box is 380 calories -- and 180 of those come from the skim milk that you use. Light popcorn is also pretty nice -- Healthy Pop's light popcorn is something on the order of 250 calories for an entire bag (plus lots of fiber). In general, no matter what you eat, there's some version of it that's better for you. But if you feel you must eat constantly, and can't stop, you're not going to lose weight -- 3000 calories a day is 3000 calories a day, even if it's all salad and vegetables.