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Understanding the Hunger

 

When it comes to losing weight we all know that one of the hardest things about it is when we feel hungry. Our first instinct is to feed it – feed the hunger. We believe that if we feed the hunger we will actually “feel better” but what happens most of the time is we feel worse. You see there is a line and depending on how much weight you need to lose you have to decide where that line is. The object is for you to eat healthy and clean foods but also to still be a little hungry. Why do you need to be hungry? The answer is simple and sometimes when we understand it, that’s what helps us “Embrace it” instead of “Hate it.”
In order to lose weight you need to take in less food than your body needs. There is no way around it – you have to eat less than your body needs and the weight will come off. Depending on how much less and how clean the food you are eating will determine how much weight comes off and how fast. What I think so many of you have the hardest time with is that you just don’t want to be hungry. Why? Because it’s uncomfortable! And whether you are busy or bored uncomfortable just plain “stinks!” So what happens when you are hungry? This is the part I want you to understand and think about:
—When you are hungry it’s because your body has less food at that moment than it is used to. It’s also good to understand this is a cumulative action. So in the beginning you feel like okay I can do this and that’s only because your body has so much extra in it -whether it’s because you are just starting or if it’s after a Cheat Day. But after a couple of days on program and eating less – your body has used everything extra. Now the body starts to begin to realize that your intake is lower than it has been and lower than it’s used to and it wants more than your are giving it. It has enough food but not as much as it is used to having and it is telling you “I want more!” It wants what you used to give it so it can stay the same and run the same as it used to. So if you feed it you stay the same. Your body is happy and you are all satisfied (for the moment) and nothing changes – including the scale.
Now let’s talk about when you don’t feed into it. When you get to that point of being a little hungry and a little uncomfortable because you know you ate your meals and snacks but you still feel hungry. That is because your body is used to having more and it’s telling you “feed me! I’m not satisfied because it’s less than what you normally give me.”  But if you don’t feed it then it has to use “stored fat.” Ahhhhh now it all makes a little more sense. When it uses “stored fat”  I want you to think of it like a vacuum sucking fat from the cells.  When it uses this fat the cells close – resulting in a smaller you – less body fat. When you use enough of the stored fat and get enough of these cells closing each day/week – that is what results in the scale moving each week.
In case you missed it you can read our article on “Fat Cells”
Being a little hungry is never easy. But when you have gotten to the point that you have over-eaten and you have gained weight – you have to look at it like you got yourself here now you have to get yourself out. You have been there and done that, and quite honestly for most of you you can’t even remember what was good enough to get you to where you are. The only way to get back to the “old you” or “the new you”  is to feed your body healthy, clean and less than what it is used to 6 days a week. It may not be exciting but that’s what cheat day is for. 6 days healthy, clean fuel your body and 1 day exciting.
“Embrace It”
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin”
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