Weight loss advice for overweight women is usually the main topic I spend time on each day with people who take part in my Skinny Asian Diet classes. It's a battle you CAN win, as Asian women have perfected a ton of easy techniques over the generations to lose weight and get a flat stomach...even after giving birth!
Weight Loss Advice for Overweight Women
Today we're going to talk about just one of the many problems that overweight women face when trying to slim down: Hunger. And then we're also going to discuss one of the ways that Asian women use to keep feeling full all day long...even when on a calorie-restricted diet.
Hunger - The Deadly Enemy
Hunger is a brutal predator that stalks its prey like a cheetah, leaping out of nowhere and making us eat things we ordinarily would have the willpower to avoid.
Ever notice how when you're hungry you tend to gravitate towards carbohydrate-loaded foods like sugary sweets, or bread?
The reason for this is that the brain sends signals out to your body commanding it to eat when it senses you need food, and those signals are designed to make you want immediate satisfaction. To drive you to do what the brain wants, it lures you with visions and images of what would you should eat...even if it's bad for you...which why we're so compelled to stop whatever you're doing and go stuff our face!
The problem with this lies in the fact that those foods we crave most tend to be easily absorbed, digested, and moved through our body much faster than the most ideal food choice available. Which means you'll be hungry again much sooner than you would be if you had chosen a different type of food or snack.
The Solution - Feel Full All Day
Just one of many things Asian women do to fight off hunger all day is through eating the right high-fiber, high-protein food that makes your body slow down the digestion process and keep you full, longer.
These foods are all around us, there are dozens of examples, but for the purpose of this quick article I'll give you two of my favorites: Nuts and Tuna.
Nuts, particularly almonds, provide extremely high levels of both fiber and protein. The effect this has is that just a handful of them can actually keep you more full, for longer, than a giant piece of super-high-calorie cake or a bowl of pasta.
It's amazing how long I can go from just say 15-20 almonds, which can easily be kept in my purse in a small zip lock bag for the perfect in-between meal snack.
Tuna is another great solution, I've found I won't feel hungry after eating a can of tuna for hours, despite the actual calorie amount being quite low. All the protein in fish tends to really slow your body's cravings down, to the point where you'll nearly double the amount of time it takes you to get hungry again after eating it versus a bread or sugary food.
Another Trick To Getting The Body you Want
Everyone I talk to lately is sick of the latest diet programs, where you're either STARVING or trying to live through BRUTAL workouts to drop weight. Instead...
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