Spokane Fitness Tips: Don’t Let Hunger Strike

You are on your way home from work/school and it has been at least 4-5 hours since your last meal. You are completely starved and you can’t wait to get home and see what you have in your kitchen to eat. You get into the kitchen and your stomach is aching with hunger, so you open the fridge to see what is handy.

The first thing that you see on a shelf is a chocolate pudding snack that look so good and ready to eat. You quickly scan for a healthier substitution but all you see are raw chicken breasts. You think would I rather spend 10-15 minutes while my hunger continues and cook up a healthy meal with chicken breasts or would I like to grab that snack pack and devour it’s deliciousness right now.

You eat the pudding and now you feel a little bit weaker in your will power so next you go for the sweet role sitting on the counter. When you’re through with that you decide oh well and continue on your all out binge all because you let hunger strike.

The Solution

Keeping a satisfied stomach throughout the day can work wonders for your will power and ultimately your whole diet and fitness goals. This involves 5-7 meals spread throughout the day to keep your hunger at bay without any long stretches of hunger. Always plan ahead and don’t skip any of your meals, which could lead to a binging episode caused by severe hunger and cravings.

So simply put don’t let yourself get hungry. Eat your meals even if you are not hungry. This will guarantee that you won’t even be tempted to deviate from your planned diet. Another note to take in here is to go shopping on a completely full stomach. When you are full you will shop with your brain not with your stomach. Logically your brain will pick out all of the fitness friendly & healthy foods at the store. While if you shopped with your stomach you would end up with….well, you know.

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