Hunger

Any successful, long term nutrition plan must consider hunger. Most diet pills available are appetite suppressants, for the reason that hunger is the simple, yet powerful driving force behind most diet failure. Hunger is complex; involving psychological factors; nerve firing and brain mapping habits, as well as physiological factors like hormone production and suppression – which can be influenced and even damaged by the quality of foods we eat. Hunger is also influenced by physical factors; the size of an individuals stomach or the amounts of nutrients available either due the quality of foods ingested, or the quantity of nutrients that are able to pass from the stomach and intestines, into the blood where they can then be transported to other body tissues where they are needed. Physical factors too, can be influenced and damaged by the quality and quantity of foods we eat. Read more “Hunger” →

Flexible Dieting

As the name suggest, flexible dieting is the concept of a nutrition program that allows for flexibility above all else. Your diet should conform to your life; your life should not have to conform to your diet. This is all-inclusive of flexible daily food choices while at home, and the meals you consume while eating out or during special occasions, having a flexible mindset, and the flexibility in your overall nutrition plan and goals. Committing to a plan that’s flexible as opposed to being rigid means that falling off track from time to time is part of the plan, and as such, there’s no need to punish oneself for it. This then gives the dieters the flexibility to forgive themselves for going off course, or even better, not to feel guilty about it in the first place, which means picking up where they left off comes quickly and easily. Read more “Flexible Dieting” →

Why do we eat (what we eat)?

There are two reasons we eat: homeostatic eating and hedonic eating.

Homeostatic eating a name derived from the word homeostasis (the tendency toward a stable equilibrium maintained by the body’s physiological processes) is eating for the sake of balancing our biological systems. Simply put, it’s eating to get our body the energy it needs.

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