How to Manage Overeating & Cravings!

Before reading this blog I want you to ask yourself a few simple questions…

1. Are you struggling to stick to your diet?

2. Are you trying to eat well and avoid snacking, but you don’t seem to have much ‘self-control’.

3. Do you frequently get high cravings that always ends up with you overeating? This then leads to those negative feelings of guilt.

4. You can’t seem to shift that unwanted body fat?

5. You are unhappy with your body and you want to change?

If you answered ‘YES’to some of these questions, then this is the blog for you and I am here to help!

In this blog post I am going to give you 4 simple tips that will help you:

• Manage cravings and overeating.

• Develop more self-control around food.

• Lose weight and unwanted body fat.

• Feel a lot more comfortable in your body.

1) AVOID RESTRICTIVE OR LOW CALORIE DIETS:

If you want to be successful in losing weight and body fat you need to have a good understanding and relationship with food. Crazy low calorie diets are one of the worst things you can do if you want to be successful in achieving your weight loss goal.

Some of the only times you want to be avoiding certain foods is when:

• You have an allergy or intolerance.

• You dislike them.

• You have been advised to by a professional.

Apart from the above, your diet should allow you to eat pretty much any food. If you restrict or cut out all foods you enjoy then you’re going to find it super boring and will struggle sticking to the diet.

2) HAVE STRUCTURE WITH YOUR DIET:

A really common mistake I see all the time and one I will hold my hand up to is ‘winging it’. Having little or no structure throughout the day is not a good idea.

Does that sound like you?

I don’t necessarily mean having a super rigid meal plan with no ‘flexibility’, that is unnecessary. But having some structure to your meals and snacks throughout the day is going to be really beneficial.

Simply by having an idea of what and when you are eating throughout the day in advance can massively increase the likelihood of you sticking to your diet. It will help reduce the chances of you mindlessly snacking and making poorer food choices. It will also save you more time and more money! (Win, Win).

3) AIM FOR 3-4 PROTEIN SERVINGS PER DAY:

Not only is protein important from a recovery perspective, protein is also satiating, so it will help with your hunger and appetite which is also going to play an important role in your diet.

You will need a certain amount of protein per day which depends on a number of different factors such as your body weight, gender, training sessions and age etc.

By simply increasing the amount of protein you eat per day to 3-4 servings you will be able to hit around the right amount of protein for your body. (If you require help on this, please just reach out and I will be more than happy to help).

4) AIM FOR A MINIMUM OF 7 HOURS SLEEP PER NIGHT:

I go through and talk about sleep a lot with clients. Apart from feeling tired, there is a host of negative effects that poor sleep has on you.

Poor sleep will massively affect your health, well-being, mood, motivation, energy levels, productivity etc (all things that play a role in your quality of life).

Poor sleep will also affect your hunger, appetite and cravings which will make reaching your fat loss goals a lot harder.

Prioritise your sleep and see how much better you feel, how much more energised you are, and how much easier your goals are to reach.

I hope that you found this blog valuable and helpful. Below are some of the main takeaways and some simple tips that will help you so feel free to take them down in the notes section of your phone, screenshot them or else revisit this blog post whenever you need.

· Focus on eating a diet that is flexible, has variety, and involves foods you enjoy.

· Have some structure with your diet and plan your meals / snacks ahead of time.

· Aim for eating a minimum of 3-4 servings of protein throughout day (using your hands as portion sizes).

Prioritise your sleep and aim for 7+ hours per night.