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Avoid gaining Winter weight
In winter we change the food we eat. Instead of salads and light dishes, we want more warming, comforting food such as soups, pasta, hearty casseroles and creamy mash. And then we add our winter kilos. Sound familiar? The good news is we can learn the tricks to have our comfort food and eat it, too.
Satiety (a feeling of satisfaction or comfortable fullness) is about feeling full, or satisfied. But there’s no rigid line we cross which says, ‘I was hungry at that point and now, after that last bite, I’m full’. It would be helpful if there was! Satiety is much broader; it is somewhere between not feeling hungry any more and that over-stuffed, uncomfortable feeling when you can’t possibly have another bite.
The key to staying satisfied, and not putting on weight, is being able to identify when we’re actually hungry and when we’ve eaten enough.
The best way to get in touch with our bodies’ signals is to rate our hunger. It’s okay to eat at regular times, and we don’t want to wait until we’re ravenous before eating, but it can be helpful to consider how hungry we are before and after we have a meal or snack. Use the scale below to help you out. In an ideal world, we’d always rate our hunger between 3 (before we eat) and 6 (after we’ve eaten).
It takes around 20 minutes for your brain to receive the messages about what’s happening in the stomach, so eat slowly, and stop eating before you’re completely satisfied. Do this and you’ll discover it IS possible to eat the warming winter comfort food we want, without gaining weight.
Article by Tracey Hanify for Healthy Food Guide. For more recipes and great advice head to www.healthyfood.co.nz
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ive been trying to eat peanuts about 30mins before dinner so i dont over eat. thanks for the tips tho! Posted by Xxc0rtxX "on" 08/13 "at"09:56 PM |
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more like the wind in wellington! hard to run anywhere! Posted by Xxc0rtxX "on" 08/13 "at"09:53 PM |
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I love food…will def be taking this advice seriously Posted by tkennard "on" 08/09 "at"02:47 PM |
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hehe i always gain weight over winter. Posted by tkennard "on" 08/09 "at"02:46 PM |
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Fasntastic advice (; Posted by xkikass21x "on" 08/03 "at"10:38 AM |
Best of the rest
