How do you not feel hungry when your hungry?

Answer 1

Drink a lot of water.

Alternate Answer

I am not a physician and I am not an expert in diet or human physiology. The following is for information and entertainment. Do some research and review anything you want to try with your primary care physicians.

This is a wonderful question. If feelings of hunger are troubling you because you are trying, as the question seems to suggest, to lose weight, then the very best thing you can do when you feel hungry is to eat something. Our bodies can't tolerate feelings of hunger for very long, and well meant attempts to lose weight result in our gaining more weight than we already lost. When we make our bodies feel hungry for long periods, our bodies trick us by kicking in some physiology that helps us NOT to lose! The body is reacting to what it senses is a period when food is scarce. When you think about it, this makes perfect sense!

The following ideas are paraphrased from a television program I saw several years ago featuring Paul McKenna PhD, a British author on diet and weight loss. The basic concept is correct but there may be errors in my recall of specifics after several years.

The idea is to learn how to eat the way that healthy and slim people eat. That involves learning what if feels like for the body to be hungry, and also learning what it feels like when the body is no longer hungry.

1. When you feel hungry, eat.
2. Eat what you want to eat, and eat as much as you want...
3. But, stop eating when you are no longer hungry. That's the tricky part.
4. When you eat, eat slowly. enjoy every bite and chew until you have gotten all the pleasure and goodness out of it.
5. It's better not to be doing anything else while eating, like watching television. Those things distract us and we continue eating well after we no longer feel hungry.
6. When you sense that you are no longer hungry, stop eating. You clearly know that you will eat again when you feel hungry. Don't force yourself to feel or to remain hungry or deprived.
7. When you are hungry again, go back to number one and eat.

The above could be broadly summarized this way. Healthyweight loss is not about learning how to starve. It is about learning how to eat.

Answer 2

To suppress hunger when you feel hungry, try drinking water, as dehydration can sometimes mask itself as hunger. You can also have a small, protein-rich snack to keep yourself satiated for longer. Distraction by engaging in activities or hobbies can also help take your mind off hunger.