Do you know temperature will increase your hunger?
- Temperature plays an important role in how much hungry we are at a given point in time.
- To make matters worse, it is absolutely harder to go to the gymnasium or to travel around outside when you are freezing, so winter makes you feel hungrier.
- Salty foods- These increase your cravings by dehydrating you.“No one can eat just one”.
- Fatty foods- These make you lose your control over your taste buds. The sad part is you cant even enjoy it as you are feeling guilty.
- Cold temperatures- Your body needs fuel to generate heat hence food becomes fuel and you end up getting eating more.
- Winter season is the time you need to exercise more. Hence indoor gyms will come to your rescue.
- Artificial sweeteners- Boon or bane!!! Never use these to lose weight.These sweeteners find their way in all the food that are high in fat and in refined sugars.
- They trick you into eating more as you feel its safe to gobble more as it has no sugar. Take for eg, a piece of cake which contains refined flour and artificial sweetener. Refined flour is nothing but carbs and has no other nutrients.
- Caffeine- This is a feel good stimulant, hence food with caffeine can make you eat more as you feel “happy”. Now you why you crave for that lattes and cappuccinos of Cafe Coffee Day.
- Alcohol- Alcohol can really increase your cravings for all that tidbits kept in front of you while you are out drinking with your friends and you get mentally weaker to make healthy choices.
- Not drinking enough water- Dehydration can make you very hungry. Plus you mistake thirst for hunger pangs. So start drinking up water.
- Refined foods with no fiber- These foods enter into your blood sugars really fast and you start feeling hungry again after the meal. You can do a self check after you have eaten white rice or refined pasta.
- Sugar- The most common culprit which you can never add a full stop to it.
- Swimming-This is very good form of exercise but can make you really ravenous. This is because of the temperature differences as you are in cool water so your body demands for fuel and you push it further with exercise. Now you know why you feel so hungry after swimming. Now this does not mean you should not swim. You just need to keep your food intake in check.