Slimming - how to reduce appetite and hunger?

Hunger and appetite for two different states. Hunger alarms the body that it is running out of nutrients. Appetite is the persistent thought that you want to eat something. Both hunger and appetite are the enemies of effective weight loss, that is, the treatment of overweight and obesity. What is hunger and what is appetite? How to tell them apart? We suggest tricks that will help reduce your appetite and hunger.

Hunger and appetite - these words are often used interchangeably, but wrongly, because they mean two different states. However, both of them are the bane of overweight and obese people who are on a reduction diet, i.e. lose weight .

How to reduce appetite and hunger: what is hunger?

Hunger, otherwise known as craving, is a primary and purely physiological feeling. How is it made? In a part of the brain called the hypothalamus , there are two centers of hunger and satiety. The first is controlled by a hormone called ghrelin, and the second is GLP1.

When the concentration of one of the nutrients in the body decreases, that is:

• proteins
• fats
• carbohydrates
• vitamins
• mineral salts,

the hunger center sends the signal " feed the body, because it needs energy reserves! ". And when you provide all the ingredients in such quantity that it can continue to work properly, the satiety center sounds and orders: " stop, do not eat, the body is already full !"

When hunger occurs, it means that the digestive system (mouth, stomach , pancreas , liver and small intestine ) already has enough enzymes ready to absorb, process and distribute new nutrients to the cells.

It is worth adding here that the body receives the "order" to stop eating thanks to ghrelin. And disruptions in the secretion and work of ghrelin may be the cause of obesity of the third degree, the so-called enormous. Ghrelin can activate the hunger signal continuously. Then the sick person constantly feels hungry, which he must satisfy. And then the most effective method of obesity treatment are bariatric surgeries , which consist in excluding from the activity of the part of the stomach where the cells that produce ghrelin are located. You can find everything about bariatric surgeries on the website : Obesity under a scalpel!

However, starvation is not a weight loss method! Without food, a person can live for about 2-3 weeks, and without water - only 7 days. Starvation leads to weight loss, but also slows down and stops vital functions, i.e. death. The hungry body begins to reach for more energy reserves, and finally uses them to the end. The instinct to satisfy hunger is so strong that depriving a person of food and water has been and is one of the most effective tools of torture, confession and obedience.

How to reduce appetite and hunger: what is an appetite?

An appetite is a sudden urge to eat a product. They say about him: a whim, a taste for something. Although the appetite is also born in the head, it is not related to any physiological mechanisms, but is psychologically conditioned.

It is your appetite that prevents you from eating only when you want to "fuel" your body, but for many other reasons. Most often, to suppress emotions, especially negative ones - sadness, regret, disappointment, loneliness. This type of appetite is also known as emotional hunger .

Your appetite also makes you eat because:

• you have food at hand,
• you are in the company - e.g. with a friend for a coffee with a cookie, with a friend for a beer with peanuts,
• stimulated by a tasty smell or attractive appearance of a given dish,
• when you remember the taste of a product, or even its advertisement.

It happens quite often that the appetite for specific products is a symptom of a deficiency of a very specific ingredient, e.g. the desire to eat a large amount of tomatoes indicates that the body may need more potassium .