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Compulsive Eating Can Be Initiated By Hunger
Hunger causes feelings of hunger and prepares the stomach for food intake. Determine if your stomach is famished, sometimes you can mistake the feeling of thirst instead of hunger. Take a glass of warm water next time you are hungry. You feel you should be full, maybe you have eaten a short while ago. A glass of water 15 minutes before you eat can also lead to eating less. Hunger causes discomfort if not properly controlled. Mild forms of binge eating may result, as hunger builds up eagerness for food. This might result to a pattern of overeating.
Here are ways to help you control hunger and avoid the chance of being a compulsive eater.
Quantify and manage hunger.
Hunger has different intensities. The moment you feel hungry, mark the intensity of the hunger in your mind; 1 as a little hungry and 5 as really hungry. Put off hunger if you can. You defeat the hunger, and eating is curbed. Do you feel alright? Relish your success!
Eat mini meals.
Hunger prepares the stomach for food. Eat mini meals, and the taste of the food is better. Eating this way will give you a zing of energy higher than a high from coffee.
Be firm on how much to eat.
Eat measured amounts of food, and ascertain how much is enough. Chew upon your meals well. Relax and take it slowly. Luxuriate and indulge on each bite. Relish each moment as if it was the last meal.
End the meal with a drink.
Herbal tea is soothing, it is a healthy drink after a meal and will take you out of the habit of overeating. This creates in the stomach the feeling of contentment. Do you feel good now? Be pleased you are contented.
When you are hungry again, deal with it and be serene. Hunger can cause the feeling of defeat. Dismiss it. Hunger causes uncomfortable feelings. Forget it. You can achieve it!
