Quick Fixes to Quiet Hunger Pains

It has been discovered that one of the many reasons that people always cheat on their diets or just give up altogether is because, quite frankly, they’re always in a hurry. the truth about being hungry is that it is difficult to live with for a day, much less for weeks on end.

Here are some tips to make sure that hunger pains don’t derail all of your hard work.

Don’t skip breakfast
don't do this or you’ll be starving and cranky by mid-morning. A breakfast with complex carbs and low fat protein will help stave off snack attacks.

Plan ahead
Make sure that you have low calories snacks and drinks with you. Drink plenty of water and eat snacks like celery with low fat cream cheese or apple slices with a slice of low fat cheese.

Make sure that you have some fat included in your diet – you need some
Choose healthy fats, like olive oil. Mediterranean people include a lot of olive oil in their cooking and they have famously low rates of obesity and heart disease.

Eat sufficient protein.
Scientific studies show that protein leaves people feeling full longer than carbohydrates does.

Don’t cut your calories too drastically
It will make your metabolism slow down and cause you to be plagued with hunger all of the time.

Eat several servings of bulky low calorie foods a day. Broccoli, cauliflower, salads, most vegetables…these will fill you up and help stave off hunger.

Take note of what times of day you become hungry and plan your meals and snacks accordingly. If you always cave in around 4 p.m., schedule a snack for 3:30 and drink a big glass of water, too.

Stay away from sugary snacks and simple carbohydrates like sticky buns, cake and donuts. If you eat them your blood sugar will soar, and then it will crash and you’ll find yourself irritable, jittery and famished.


Eat complex carbohydrates half an hour to an hour before exercising to fuel your workout session and also so you don’t end up feeling absolutely ravenous afterwards.

The bottom line here is that, because you are dieting doesn’t mean that you should go hungry. It’s all about eating healthy and eating a bit less than you need each day, so that your body uses your excess body fat for fuel.