If you're hungry, you may simply be thirsty. Drinking water can often satisfy your hunger, and this is a great way to keep you from gaining weight.
Instead of grabbing a soda or diet cola, pour yourself a tall glass of Spring water instead. The diet colas will keep you hungry, and the sugary colas will pack on the weight even faster.
According to Dr. F. Batmanghelidj, M.D., he writes in his book “Your Body’s Many Cries for Water,”
“Many persons confuse their thirst as hunger. Thinking they have consumed enough "water" from their soda, they assume they are hungry and begin to eat more than their body needs for food. In due time, dehydration will cause a gradual gain in weight from overeating as a direct result of confusion of thirst and hunger sensations.
“It is primitive and simplistic thinking that one could easily lace water with all sorts of pleasure-enhancing chemicals and substitute these fluids for the natural and clean water that the human body needs. Some of these chemicals, caffeine, aspartame, saccharin and alcohol, through their constant lopsided effect on the brain … [program] the body chemistry with results opposite to the body’s natural design.”
Ellington Darden, PhD, states in his book, “A Flat Stomach ASAP,” that super hydration, sipping large amounts of water each day, is an important dietary guideline.
So, the next time you think you want a snack and you think that a “sugar-free snack” will keep you from gaining weight, drink a glass of water — not a diet cola — and see if your hunger goes away!
Something so simple and so natural keeps you from gaining weight when you're hungry.
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