What are some tricks that you have to ward off hunger?

[drdmike]

I will eat a small serving of vegetables and then chew gum. That makes me fill full for hours.

 

[flyhighk]

Lots of coffee in the morning, diet pepsi, gum, and just trying not to think about food.

 

[Foreigner]

Eating a balanced meal.

 

[deaf eye]

bee pollen ifn i get hungry at work, like a little bit fills me up , to get me thru till when i can eat

 

[llama112]

Eat healthy meals and drink tea / water during the day.

 

[ilikestims]

I have been juicing fresh fruits and veggies every day (about 35 oz) and, along with consuming apple cider vinegar, has done so much to balance hunger it is mind-blowing!

I exercise about 60-90 minutes a day, including yoga, weight training, biking and running. You'd think I'd need a ton more calories than I usually consume, but the amount of food I need has not changed from when I barely started working out again 3 months ago.

 

[plmar]

Don't eat anything and eventually after about 15-20 hours the feeling of hunger goes away.

 

[Tryptamino]

^lol

like foreigner said, eating a balanced meal keeps your body satisfied enough so that it doesn't crave food all day. If i have a poper balanced breakfast i don't get hungry again for like 6 hours.

 

[Maya]

Eating a balanced meal.

best answer imo

Although granola bars had been my go to food recently to ward off hunger.

 

[PriestTheyCalledHim]

This is a very unhealthy thing to do to yourself and your body if you do skip meals or intentionally do not eat but at least you are eating vegetables. Or do you just want to know what to eat so you do not stay hungry and eat too much when it's time to eat a meal?

If you want to try fasting do it safely, and as other people wrote eating balanced small meals, drinking coffee, tea, and water, and eating fruit and whole grains also works.

 

[Engage]

Hot baths or showers, drinking warm lemon water (to 'fool' the stomach), Apple Cider Vinegar as someone mentioned.
Smashing ma fingers with a ball peen hammer every time I take a bite of food or think of it. (Pavlov's dogs...)

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Stimulants

If I can keep myself busy, I'm much less susceptible to caving into my stomach's demands. When I'm bored, however, I just want to eat & eat & eat.

 

[Foreigner]

Don't eat anything and eventually after about 15-20 hours the feeling of hunger goes away.

The hunger going away is your metabolism slowing down and your digestive organs losing vitality. When you eventually eat again you'll be a lot more prone to unhealthy weight gain because your body will say, "Hey look, food! We never get this! Better store all those calories as fat because you never know when we'll get fed again."

Your body will also start breaking down muscle tissue to meet its protein needs, which means there are less muscle cells burning fat.

 

[ilikestims]

The hunger going away is your ... digestive organs losing vitality.

Citation needed.

When you eventually eat again you'll be a lot more prone to unhealthy weight gain because your body will say, "Hey look, food! We never get this! Better store all those calories as fat because you never know when we'll get fed again."

Not necessarily. Fasting is simply rebooting. You can reboot healthfully or unhealthfully.

Digestive system has memory. Fasting helps erase the old memory; whatever you eat after the fast will imprint itself much more heavily than normal.

This is how fasting can be used to eliminate cravings to unhealthful foods and substances such as sugar.

My source is Goldhamer and Lisle's The Pleasure Trap.

Your body will also start breaking down muscle tissue to meet its protein needs, which means there are less muscle cells burning fat.

I've read this enough to not necessarily doubt this -- muscle loss is a problem wrt fasts -- but I suspect it's greatly overstated. I am quite muscular yet fast more often than anyone I know.

I do not cease my workouts while fasting, either. And I can say from experience that it eliminates stubborn belly, hip and chest fat more effectively than anything else I've experimented with, and by a significant margin.

I am genetically blessed in many aspects, though (for example, I've never had trouble putting on and keeping muscle, despite a thin frame).