"When do you usually want to eat?"
"Of course I want to eat when I'm hungry!"
No, no, young man, you're still too naïve!
In fact, the reality is-
I want to eat when I work overtime
I want to eat it when I chase dramas
I want to eat when I'm angry
I still want to eat when I'm bored
......
Are you starting to doubt life, obviously not hungry, but why do you always want to eat something?
Sometimes even after eating, your stomach is still full, but you still can't control the mouth that wants to eat, which is actually your brain playing tricks.
In the brain's view, eating is not necessarily for the sake of filling, but for mental enjoyment, and in psychology, we call it "emotional eating", which is what we usually call - craving.
And "gluttony" is physiological, that is, the body is telling us that it really needs dopamine!
The main role of dopamine is to affect our mood and feelings, if the dopamine concentration is too low, it is likely to cause depression, obesity, etc., and when you are emotional and comfortable, it means that the dopamine concentration is increasing.
So when you are depressed, stressed, and tired, your body will automatically take on the responsibility of "happy guardian" and find ways to increase the concentration of dopamine, and eating is the fastest and most effective way, so "gluttony" is born!
So how do we distinguish between real hunger and simple hunger? Especially for those who want to lose weight, this is too important.
If it is simple hunger, it must not appear suddenly, but you feel it slowly over a period of time, and the time is generally relatively fixed, such as the timing of three meals a day.
When you feel hungry, you don't necessarily have to eat right away, and it's okay to postpone it a little.
But craving is different, it's just like inspiration, it's just a momentary thing, and suddenly I want to eat, and the mood of wanting to eat is very urgent, and I have to eat it immediately.
There is also an obvious difference between picking and not picking, when you are hungry, you don't care about whether you like to eat or not, and you will have an appetite when you see any food.
Gluttony, on the other hand, is picky about food, and is often the result of fried foods and sugary drinks, such as burgers, potato chips, barbecue, cola, etc.
There is no standard for fixing a template, and it is mainly based on your own feelings. However, there is a lot of room for "cheating" in this, for example, even if you are hungry, you can feel hungry and eat with peace of mind.
While it's not a bad thing to treat yourself to the occasional pick-me-up with food, it's easy to fall into a vicious cycle if you turn eating into a way to deal with negative emotions.
Because when eating emotionally (craving), we often eat unhealthy things, and in the long run, obesity, lipid metabolism and other diseases will occur.
Therefore, this vigorous appetite is something we should suppress when we need to do it.
The most intuitive way to control is to give "stimulus" visually. The junk food we love to eat is often brightly colored and highly saturated, such as red and yellow, which makes people's appetite rise after watching it, such as the representative certain Deji and a certain Danglao (no connotation meaning).
On the contrary, blue can reduce people's appetite, Xiaobian has been intimately prepared for everyone, the next time you want to eat, you can take a look at the following picture.
High energy warning ahead!!
If you're still hungry, watch it a few more times.
At the same time, we can also eat more foods that are easy to make people feel full, such as water, and green vegetables with more water can also produce a sense of satiety.
The second is that it contains more fiber, such as nuts, oats, etc., and you can "last" all day long by eating a little.
In addition, there are elders who always say that "eat carefully and slowly", and some studies have pointed out that people who eat quickly and are full are 3 times more likely to gain weight than others.
Sure enough, there is always some truth in this sentence that I heard from a young age.
In short, "want to eat" is really wanting, but not necessarily really eating, it's just a feeling, when you watch food bloggers salivating in the middle of the night, admit it, you are gluttonous~