Diets fail for a lot of reasons but one of the primary ones is simply hunger. During a diet, hunger invariably goes up. Some of this is for purely physiological reasons, some of it is for psychological reasons. Not that there is really a difference in the two. And along with all of the other difficulties, this can derail the diet. So let’s look at hunger. What it is, what it represents. And more importantly let me provide 9 ways to handle hunger on a diet.
What is Hunger?
To say that human hunger is complicated is a vast understatement. To cover it in detail would require a series of articles or perhaps an entire book. Research continues to uncover numerous interacting and overlapping hormones (such as leptin, ghrelin, peptide YY, GLP-1 and others) that monitor how much and what someone is eating (along with their body weight) and those all send a signal to the brain that drives a number of processes, not the least of which is hunger.… Keep Reading