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I see a lot of people talking about how hard dieting it and how they eventually give in to cravings. i find it kind of silly considering how easy dieting is for me, but I remember back to when I didn't know what I was doing and dieting was super hard.
I am here to tell you the method that I've figured out for pretty much never getting hungry (at least not hungry enough to give in to food) and having zero cravings for junk food.
The diet:
Intermittent fasting (16/8). You only eat inside of an 8 hour period (I eat two full meals) and fast for 16 hours. At first this might sound terrible, but your body will adapt after a few weeks and it will know that you're not going to be getting any food in the 16 hour period and as a result it will send out less hunger signals. The standard method of dieting with small meals every 2-3 hours will just leave you hungry and unfulfilled after every meal. You'll constantly be in a hungry state. so no wonder people fail dieting like that. Eating 2-3 big meals is much better, as it leaves you full after every meal. You'll also have more energy to spend towards physical activity if you time your meals well.
Intermittent fasting has a bunch of other health and diet benefits, but I am not going to go over them here, as they are not important for this topic, but I recommend reading up on them.
You want to be eating greens with your meals (the more of it you eat, the fuller you'll feel). Greens are important when you want to feel full, especially if your diet is low in calories.
The much important supplement, chromium picolinate:
The main reason so many people give in to hunger and cravings during a diet is because of low blood sugar. When your blood sugar gets low, your body starts sending out signals that it is hungry for carbohydrates (especially fast ones); you end up eating a ton of junk food, and feeling terrible about yourself afterwards. When you're fasting especially, this is even more likely to happen.
We need a way to control our blood sugar and chromium does exactly that, and it does it very well at higher doses (most chromium you'll find is underdosed and thus completely useless). Chromium is what has made the biggest difference for me when dieting. It is the main reason for me not getting any cravings whatsoever. If you don't want to do any of the other things I've mentioned, but still want to reduce hunger and cravings, at least give Chromium a try. It's quite cheap for what it does.
You want to find a supplement with a potent dose of 800-1000mcg, no more, no less.
Cardio:
You don't want to be doing any high intensive cardio (high intensive weight lifting is fine, but not cardio). If you're going to be doing any cardio, you want it to be low intensity (incline walking and cycling is perfect for this). High intensive cardio such as running will have your body sending out signals that it's hungry and we want to avoid that at any cost.
Keep in mind it takes time for your body to adapt. Don't try this for two days and come back to me and tell me you're just as hungry or even more from fasting. You have to give your body at least 2 weeks to adapt.
That's pretty much it. That's how you stay in a calorie deficit without any hunger or cravings (or at least very little).
I am here to tell you the method that I've figured out for pretty much never getting hungry (at least not hungry enough to give in to food) and having zero cravings for junk food.
The diet:
Intermittent fasting (16/8). You only eat inside of an 8 hour period (I eat two full meals) and fast for 16 hours. At first this might sound terrible, but your body will adapt after a few weeks and it will know that you're not going to be getting any food in the 16 hour period and as a result it will send out less hunger signals. The standard method of dieting with small meals every 2-3 hours will just leave you hungry and unfulfilled after every meal. You'll constantly be in a hungry state. so no wonder people fail dieting like that. Eating 2-3 big meals is much better, as it leaves you full after every meal. You'll also have more energy to spend towards physical activity if you time your meals well.
Intermittent fasting has a bunch of other health and diet benefits, but I am not going to go over them here, as they are not important for this topic, but I recommend reading up on them.
You want to be eating greens with your meals (the more of it you eat, the fuller you'll feel). Greens are important when you want to feel full, especially if your diet is low in calories.
The much important supplement, chromium picolinate:
The main reason so many people give in to hunger and cravings during a diet is because of low blood sugar. When your blood sugar gets low, your body starts sending out signals that it is hungry for carbohydrates (especially fast ones); you end up eating a ton of junk food, and feeling terrible about yourself afterwards. When you're fasting especially, this is even more likely to happen.
We need a way to control our blood sugar and chromium does exactly that, and it does it very well at higher doses (most chromium you'll find is underdosed and thus completely useless). Chromium is what has made the biggest difference for me when dieting. It is the main reason for me not getting any cravings whatsoever. If you don't want to do any of the other things I've mentioned, but still want to reduce hunger and cravings, at least give Chromium a try. It's quite cheap for what it does.
You want to find a supplement with a potent dose of 800-1000mcg, no more, no less.
Cardio:
You don't want to be doing any high intensive cardio (high intensive weight lifting is fine, but not cardio). If you're going to be doing any cardio, you want it to be low intensity (incline walking and cycling is perfect for this). High intensive cardio such as running will have your body sending out signals that it's hungry and we want to avoid that at any cost.
Keep in mind it takes time for your body to adapt. Don't try this for two days and come back to me and tell me you're just as hungry or even more from fasting. You have to give your body at least 2 weeks to adapt.
That's pretty much it. That's how you stay in a calorie deficit without any hunger or cravings (or at least very little).
It makes overeating virtually impossible.
