6 Ways Your Weight Loss Goals Get Gobbled By Hunger (Part 2)
August 8, 2018 Ashley 0 Comments
So we’ve already established at least three reasons you’re so hungry on your new diet.
But if you’ve already tweaked them, three reasons remain that may explain your ravenous nature:
4. Starchy carbs
The flip side to this is you’re eating simple – not complex – carbs. That’s right. You can’t just balance your macros and then eat crappy as a reward. That’s not how any of this works. Because, when you do, there’s this hateful cascade of events that unfolds inside you: blood glucose rises, insulin comes to save the day and take it away, insulin’s a li’l too extra with its well meaning attempts – sending the jettisoned sugar to fattening exile, regular blood sugar levels dip too much, and, voila: you’re left hungry all over again. All while you’ve got more than enough calories and fat amassed and hidden away from the sanguine general body population. Yet, you wanna munch more. Evil, right? Yeah. That’s what simple, starchy carbs do. So, maybe avoid em if you’re hungry all the time. They’re probably to blame.
5. You’re not sleeping enough
The yes-and to the simple carb issue above is that that when that blood gluc drops like a sweet EDM beat, it leaves you super sleepy. I’m talking “who gorilla glued my lids together?” level lethargic. Ever notice that? After an amazing pile’ve pasta, it’s like someone siphoned the vitality out’ve you. And we all do the same thing. Sure, it’s 2 P.M. by now. We know it’s too late for a double tall mocha. But we give in anyway. Cut to 10 P.M. tonight and not only has the sugar from the mocha caused the same snack-mode inducing issue our lunch linguine did (meaning we ate even more fat and calories), but we also can’t sleep. And that means, tomorrow, our hunger hormone (called grehlin) will be wreaking gastric havoc, demanding snack-rifices to our visceral volcano. But don’t believe me. Believe science. Studies show that less than 7 to 8 hours put you into zombie level hanger mode. In fact, subjects tended to ingest as much as 600 extra calories after a night of deprived sleep. So maybe start with the problem. Eat the complex carbs that don’t make you require late-day caffeine, have that caffeine before 2, and get to bed early(ish… like before 10…). Still doing the mattress mambo and failing to nod off? There’s a blog for that: try my Tyrd page for a plethora of rest time pointers.
6. Dining distracted
Can I get an emoji of the guilty girl raising her hand? I mean, who doesn’t come home and enjoy reruns of Shamelss while sucking down spiralized zucchini spaghetti noodles? After a long day, I truly struggle with this. And I’m not just saying that to relate to my readers. I wish I was one’ve those hippie chicks who can cast blessings over her IG worthy looking prepared suppers, revel in every bite, and let the sensation and aroma and mouthfeel and all those mindful components wash over her. I am not. I dump my frozen veggies, zook pasta, and vegan broth in the microwave – haphazardly. I listen to the poorly placed plate clunk around as it labors to rotate my bowl of food. I do not bother to fix it. And then, once the beeping dinner bell sounds, I unlatch the door – whereupon copious steam escapes like an ancient warlock is about to emerge – to reveal half my dinner has exploded across the walls of my nuke box. Ignoring the mess, I abscond with my meal to the sofa, where I enjoy a digital puppet show featuring mythical characters in which I’ve become well invested. And, all the while, I’m missing something very important that my skinny hippie chick friends are not: that satiation signal. When we eat mindlessly and have distractions, we miss the awareness regarding our bodies’ red flags. Especially if we’re enjoying a show. We tend to want to augment the experience with something savory. (Even after dinner’s done.) Or, if there’s a lot of drama, the stress may drive us to want to comfort munch.
Seriously, I got so fat during “The Walking Dead”, it’s not even comical.
(Actual photo of me going for my third plate of takeaway on season number Neegan)
And it’s all without us even realizing it.
Now, as you go down the list, you may realize you’re missing the mark on a handful of these things. And that’s great news. Because that means your random ravenousness isn’t some mystery affliction that can’t be fixed. All you’ve gotta do is up the water sipping and snooze time, balance a few macros, and maybe scale back on the starchy carbs, long jogs, and mindless munching. And, as ever, if none of this sounds like you (or you make the changes and you’re still perma-peckish), then go get checked by your local white coated drug dealer who takes your insurance.
Because the only thing you should be hungry for on your weight loss path is your next goal.