How Not to be Hungry While Dieting

Eat ALL You Want During A Diet?

Google anything about weight loss and you can easily find the “simple” method to weight loss. This is simple short phrase is repeated so many times it has become a meme all on its own. If I tell you “Eat Less and You’ll Lose Weight” I would probably get is a simple “duh”. Let’s go over why eating less just really isn’t the answer. We will also go over ways that it can become nearly impossible to eat enough calories. You will actually need to find high calorie foods. Weird right?

Quick Over View

Here we are going to go over how you can eat So Much that you will actually need to find ways to eat more calories. For Real! We are going to approach this in a simple three step approach. You will be able to never feel like your diet is trying to starve you ever agin.

Before We Begin ( “Safety Foods”)

Let’s just define a term that we are going to be using here in this article. We are going to consider a Safety Food an item that you can eat nearly eat unlimited amounts of. The Chart below will prove this.

The Steps

Learn Quality Vs Quantity
Finding Safety Foods
How To Eat More

1 Spotting Quality

Just about everywhere you search online will tell you that you should eat healthy quality foods. But many fail to explain how certain foods can effect your hunger and the actual quantity you can eat. There are more, but we are going to focus on three main points on how to spot Quality

First

This is the really Simple one, just about anyone can do this one. Simply compare something to a Known Healthy Food (ie: Broccoli Vs Donut). This can cover the majorly of foods out there.

Second

This one goes a little more in depth than number one, but I promise I will still keep it short. One of the easiest ways to know if something is healthy is simply but knowing what in the food. We may be simplifying this too far, but simply look at the calories. This is usually (not always) a dead giveaway on how much is truly added to your food. Just because something may say that it is healthy, all natural, or even low calories, these terms can be very vague in definition. “Healthy” may be that it contains no preservatives but has a 1,000 calories. “All natural? may mean that they simply used real sugar instead or artificial. And “Low Calories” can simply mean it’s lower than something else that contains more.

Side note about counting calories high calorie items tend to be on the unhealthy side. But, things like nuts can contain a lot of calories but are healthy in just about any diet.

Example – A banana smoothie can vary drastically depending on where you get it. A prepared banana smoothie can have nearly 600 calories, while one you make at home can have just 83 calories. They both maybe called a smoothie but it is a good idea to look at label. You will soon be able to spot these items easy.

If you would like to know how to make a super easy and healthy Banana Smoothie that you can enjoy at anytime just click below.

The Best Banana Smoothie

Third

This one can sort of complicate number 2 above. But we have to cover Artificial Sweeteners. Even though artificial sweeteners contain zero calories they can still have tremendous effects on our bodies. Let’s just go over a few benefits to cutting artificial sweeteners.

1 – Our bodies can actually treat sugar as a drug and this can have huge effects on out body. As we ingest sugar we actually effect or tolerance to sweetness every time. This basically means the amount of sugar you need next time will need to be higher to have the same sense of sweetness. This then compounds over the years.

2 – Ingesting something sweet can actually make us crave even more sweets later, throwing off our weight loss plan. Studies show that regularly ingesting Artificial sweeteners has been linked to weight gain. Weird right…

3 – Artificial sweeteners have been linked to increase your risks to disease like type to diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

Here is a link to some of this information

A good way to limiting your Artificial Sweeteners intake is to simply count them as their “real” sugar counter part, ie diet soda can be counted simply as a soda.

2 – Finding Safety Foods

This is actually much simpler than you may think. After learning from above on how to spot quality and healthy foods, this will be much easier. Here we are going to begin looking for foods that we can really enjoy. For ease we are going to split this in two categories. First the “Obvious” healthy foods, then the “Tasty Foods”.

Healthy Foods

This firs part about “Healthy Foods” is sort of a repeat from step one. But these foods will find their way into just about every single diet out there.

Veggies – Just about everyone can agree that veggies are considered a healthy food. This is for a few reasons. First they contains tons of healthy nutrients and vitamins. Second, vegetable contain a high amount of fiber which allows your body to feel the sense of fullness longer. Thirdly, vegetables can be extremely low in calories, you can eat enormous amounts of them with out even getting close to your daily calorie allowance. I will Place a table below to show you how much you can really eat on 1,900 calories per day diet.

Tasty Foods

Truthfully the definition of Tasty foods is really vague. I personally think some vegetables and quite tasty while others probably can barely touch them. But here in this section we are going to cover the foods that may fall in the gray areas of being a healthy food. We are going to break this categories. First being the dreaded Carbs that are talked about in every healthy website and the Carb Diet. Secondly the Hearty Stuff that some people may think are unhealthy.

Carbs!!

The carb diet is probably one of the most popular diets out there for two simple reasons. First, because of how strict it can be, it can be pretty strict. Secondly, the diet actually can work. This is usually because the diet restricts just so much of your diet. We aren’t to going to cover much more about the Carb Diet in this post, if you would like to read more about this kind of diet I will link to that post just below.

Our Diet Vs Other Diets

Now that we got that little bit out of the way, Let’s cover Carbs for this article. When people begin a new weight loss plan, people often believe all carbs must go. This usually includes all of them, healthy as well as the unhealthy ones. But, if weight loss is your goal it is a good practice to limit you intake of carbs for various reason that can go far beyond this post. But the big one is carbs can simply increase your appetite. Of the different types of carbs out there, your really should be focus on mainly avoid refined carbs. These are mainly white breads and sugar. If you are following a diet that doesn’t limit carbs, attempt to limit yourself towards healthier options like vegetables, whole fruit, legumes, potatoes, and whole grains.

The Hearty Stuff!

True Story, when I was younger my family would relate healthy to eating like a rabbit. When I first started my weight loss planning, by father thought that I was basically going to live on lettuce. Technically you couldn’t survive on lettuce for two reasons. First, and it would be nearly impossibly to eat enough to meet you daily calorie goal. Second, you need to get more nutrition that what lettuce can give you alone.

For many people trying to find healthy foods can sometimes become a bit confusing when it refers to these “Hearty Foods”. Foods like fish, beef, pork, chicken, potatoes, rice and pastas. By many diets some of these can sometimes be considered off limits. But when you follow a weight loss plan that focuses on a healthy diet in general. You will find that these items can be easily added to your diet. The main thing to keep in mind of these types of foods are to simply choose the healthiest variations of them. Here I can place a few quick examples.

- - - Chicken breast (white meat) is healthier than dark meat
    - You can choose lean cuts of beef and trim the fat
    - Whole grain pastas can be more beneficial that white/refined pastas.
    - Brown Rice is healthier than refined white rice

Below is a chart of a few popular foods.

How Much Food Is 1,900 Calories

3 – How To Eat More

Let’s finally answer How Do I Eat MORE And Not Feel Hungry Because Of My Diet. I will break this up in to three methods that can and should be combined.

- First – Find a food that you really enjoy that is filling.
  - This can be a healthy salad or even a large bacon omelet (seriously).
- Second – Eat a good breakfast.
- Third – This is important because, just about everyone is going to have a taste for something sweet every now and then. Find a healthy sweet treat.

First

When Starting a weight loss plan it is important to really find a few foods that are healthy and filling. This is important because any diet plan that make you hungry runs a much higher risk of being abandoned. And being hungry will most likely lead you to scavenging for anything that looks tasty that’s probably no the best dieting choice. Simply put make an effort on finding very low calorie foods that you enjoy to fill you up.

Personally the foods that I find the best for me are bacon egg white omelets, salads, and cucumbers.

My current favorite has to be the Bacon Egg White Omelet, it contains a total of 178 calories and very easy to make. Even when you are feeling a little hungier you can simply add more egg. With the bacon at about 45 calories per slice and egg whites only containing 67 calories per half cup. This can be extremely tasty and filling. If your even able to drop the bacon you can have massive omelets for minimal calories. I can almost guarantee that you can not eat more egg white omelets than your calorie allowance. (1,500 calories would be about 11.25 cups of egg whites or nearly 23 good sized omelets)

Second

This sort of ties in with my favorite healthy filling food, but the options here are endless. Having a healthy breakfast is really important. Studies show that having a healthy breakfast can greatly aid in weigh loss (NCBI). With a healthy breakfast you will notice that your appetite though out the day improves drastically.

This can be a simple oat meal, fruit, or an awesome omelet. Just make sure you start your day on a good meal.

Third

This one you should enjoy a bit more. Find a snack that you enjoy and can at least consider semi healthy. But make sure you portion it correctly and account for the calories. Here you can pick anything that you find you can have a good portion for calories. Planning a snack can keep you from scavenging for the brightest wrapped food.

Here are some of my favorites.

- - Banana Smoothie (Only 83 calories)
    - Click Here To Learn How to Make a Good Smoothie
  - Mini M&M’s (120 Calories about 1 calorie each)
    - These are in no way healthy but a snack every now and then
  - Pecans (200 calories per 1/4 cup)
    - Nuts are really healthy and can actually help curb appetite. But they are can pack a ton of calories. So make sure a portion is good for you.
  - Blueberries (85 calories / about 80 berries)
  - Strawberries (38 calories per 1/4 pound)

Conclusion

By seeing our chart you can see that you shouldn’t be starving simply because you are on a diet. The best way to increase the amount you eat is to simply find healthy foods that you enjoy and use these to bulk up your meals.

How Not to be Hungry While Dieting