Any Suggestions for Curbing Appetite and Cravings?

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For curbing appetite and cravings?

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Sobia from Facebook asks the one and only.

Cause of my being overweight is my late night cravings.

I eat non stop.

Any suggestions for curbing appetite and cravings?

Oh, this is a good one.

Thank you Sovia.

I will be right back with the answer.

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Ooh, this is a good one. And I have an easy answer. Padlocks and an armed guard. That's all you do. You just get a guard standing in the kitchen and you padlock all the doors and you're solved. Okay, obviously that is not going to work, is it? But gosh, sometimes I really wish it could because you're not alone, right? I mean, I think most people wake up in the morning with all the best intentions. They're super virtuous throughout the day, and then late night hits, their evil twin comes out and bam. Things happen. So how do we solve this? Well, there's a couple different things that I can recommend. Number one is get the enemy out of house. So probably at late night you're not sitting munching down on salmon and broccoli. I'm just guessing. Guessing. So the first thing I would tell you is get those trigger foods out of your house. Now. We all have them. I could tell you, you know, one of the seven foods I pull out in, in both the virgin diet and I pull out in sugar impact diet is popcorn. And if I had popcorn in the house, I'd be in deep trouble because salty and crunchy is my jam. So think about the things that are creating the problems that you're, you're having the cravings for and get those out. If it's a sugar thing, go through the Sugar impact diet. I teach you how to retrain your taste bud to appreciate savory and spicy and get rid of your sweet tooth forever. So that's the first thing, because I always want to look at why are you having appetite and cravings? Is it a food intolerance? Is there a hidden food intolerance that's causing cravings? That's a clear sign of one. Is it sugar? That's the first thing, number one. Number two, are you tired? Because as you start to get tired, you start as your. Then your body can start to crave sugar to give you a little serotonin hit. So what I'd love to do is let's reframe your evening and start a new routine. So here's what it's gonna look like. Cause this happens at late night, right? First of all, don't stay up late. So that will solve one thing. We shouldn't be up late, right? One of the Things that starts to happen. There is ghrelin, as it gets later, starts to come back up. It's the hunger hormone that will tell you you're hungry and your resolve's going down cause you're tired. So what I want you to do is make sure you're getting eight to nine hours of quality sleep. So let's dial back your sleep a bit. Then let's add in an evening routine that gets you out of the kitchen and nowhere near it. One of the greatest evening routines that can solve this problem for you is to go get in the bathtub. You can't be in the refrigerator if you're in the bathtub. So get in the bathtub with a great hot Epsom salts bath with a little lavender sniff some peppermint, which can also help you with cutting the cravings and cutting the hunger. Have a little bit of a no caffeine. Yummy tea. I stayed recently at Calabi, which is this amazing resort, and at night they gave us these dessert teas. They didn't have any calories, didn't have any sugar, but they were just absolutely amazing for you. So try one of those. I mean, they had like caramel cream and they were just tea bags. So try that and start a rule with yourself that you do not eat after dinner, that you eat a high quality dinner. You eat from the virgin diet sugar impact diet plate, right? So you're getting in your clean protein, healthy fats and fiber from non starchy veggies and slow low carbs. That's going to give you the satiety that you need, the blood sugar balance that you need. Super duper important. So make sure that you do that and shut that kitchen down. And then make sure you're eating those good meals throughout the day. Because there is that second meal phenomenon. You start out with a, with a bad breakfast, say a high carb breakfast that will start your blood sugar and insulin going and that will set you up for being hungry at your next meal. And then you're like the whole day is shot, right? So I want you to get it back together again. Shut the kitchen after your last meal. If you're hungry, have those, try those desserty types of tea or a glass of water, which shut down evening pangs. Expect it to be a little challenging for a couple of days. Do that other routine and get a friend or accountability partner on speed dial to help you. All right? Hope that helps. If you've got questions, I've got answers. Bounce on over to Instagram. And that is where I pick up my questions on my DMs. So go on over to my DMs and leave me a message and I will be sure to grab those and hopefully you will be next in my Ask the Health Expert questions. All right, see you next time. Remember to subscribe to JJ.com Bye.

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