Most snack cravings aren't hunger but blood sugar crashes after eating carbs. A 20-minute brisk walk shifts your body to burn fat and stops the crash, killing the urge to eat more sugar. Eating carbs less often helps too.
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So why do we eat? I mean, why do you eat? Do you eat because you're hungry? I want to suggest that we have a whole lot of reasons for eating and they actually often don't have much to do with hunger at all. The next hunger is low blood sugar. Hungry. Here's how you can tell when somebody has it. They're hangry or fungry. Maybe you've heard this is where somebody's so hungry that they become a different human being. A Jekyll and Hyde experience. This is where temper tantrums can happen. Grumpiness or just low energy. What's happening here is not actually a form of hunger, it's a form of mismanaged. Let me explain. Your body can burn fat, it can burn protein, and it can burn sugar. When it burns sugar or carbohydrate foods, you can feel really, really good. But then when it's all gone, you can feel really, really bad. And so in that moment, what can happen is, is that you feel a crash, maybe you've called it a sugar crash. And in that moment you're experiencing very low blood sugar. And so your body sends out an emergency signal and often that emergency signals for, guess what? More sugar. Because that's what you're burning. Next thing you know, you're having a craving for a chocolate bar or a candy or a donut or maybe if you're really lucky, a. But the point is you're craving a carbohydrate because you have crashed your blood sugar. What you can do about this is first of all make sure that you have a healthy relationship with carbohydrate foods, that they're not something that you necessarily are eating every single day. And the other one is, is undertake gentle cardiovascular movement. It's a truly amazing thing that if you're feeling a little bit of low blood sugar hunger, all you need to do sometimes is go outside, go for a 20 minute brisk walk. Your body will start burning fat and release internal energy and you won't have low blood sugar anymore. And then you won't have to eat garbage. When you feel these hungers, it's almost too late. So if you address them in advance, then they won't have power over you. Neutralize the six hungers and then you'll find yourself eating less, but more importantly eating more good quality food as well.
