What are some ways to control my hunger?

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Host: What are some ways to control my hunger?

Jeannette Bessinger: If you have a very strong appetite, there are couple of things that you can do that help to retrain your body to calm it down a little bit. One of the best strategies is to eat in three hour increments, to eat small amounts of food every three hours. By that, I mean if woke up at six in the morning, you would have your breakfast, say at seven O clock in the morning. Small amount of food three hours later within 15 minutes before or afterward, you want to have a snack. You should keep that snack relatively small in terms of number of calories but it's something to at least be chewing on. Three hours after that it should be seven, ten, one O clock you have your lunchtime meal, three hours after that you have another snack, three hours after that you eat your late meal. What this does is it keeps your body from triggering the very intense hunger sensations and very quickly within a day or two or three days you should start to feel those sensations calming down.

Another way to begin to balance your hunger and your eating in general is to use what we call the Prince King Popper Strategy with your meals. By that I mean in the morning you eat a relatively reasonable meal, a midrange sized meal. Lunchtime is your biggest meal. At that time when the Sun is highest in the sky that s actually when your metabolism is at it's peak performance. So, if you eat your largest meal at that time of the day, you will then have energy for the second half of the afternoon that you need to draw on and then have your dinner like a popper. Eat a very small amount of food which will enable you to relax in the evening and when you fall asleep, your body will be able to do with natural digestive cleansing cycle and you might find also that you lose a little bit of weight.

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