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How to Control your Metabolism and Stay slim 'naturally'..

Controlling your Food Intake:

  Let's begin with food intake. The simple fact is that one reason for some people eating more than they burn is, strangely enough, and of all things - cultural programming!!...

  Various cultures have programmed us into eating meals at regular times, into eating whether our bodies really require nourishment or not. This results in overeating. People say, oh, it's time for lunch. But what if your body doesn't really WANT to eat - what if it's not hungry?

  The sad fact is most of us have TRAINED our bodies to be hungry at certain times, whether those bodies REALLY require nourishment or not. We have SUPPRESSED the triggers that tell our body that it isn't hungry, instead training it to BE hungry at certain times.

  ANOTHER cause for overeating is that one might eat a lot because one is not giving one's body the RIGHT nourishment. For example, on days on which I do heavy weight training I have an insatiable hunger UNLESS I take in protein - if I eat vegetables, for example, I could eat all day and STILL be hungry.

  You can see here that the causes of overeating might be far more subtle processes than we think.

  Similarly, on days when I do strenuous martial arts workouts, my body hungers for sugars and other energy-giving foods.

  A simple way to handle the tendency to eat too much might be to just look back at your day just before a meal and see exactly what you've done and then eat the RIGHT foods, the foods your body needs, and so satisfy your hunger more quickly and efficiently. Sometimes hunger DOES NOT mean you're not eating enough, but that you're not eating what your body desperately NEEDS.