It’s a paradox that in some parts of the world, people try to lose some weight, while in other people don’t have enough food.
I’ll mention the “losing weight” people in this blog post because I tend to be more familiar with the situation.
“De ce îi este omului de astăzi foame? De iubire È™i de sens.”
Nicolae Steinhardt în Jurnalul fericirii
While Nicolae Steinhardt might refer to emotional hunger by saying that the modern person wishes for more love and meaning in life, I think that when you are hungry you tend to wish for things like pizza or chocolate, high in calories, and delicious food.
“In conclusion, even short-term fasts can lead people to make more unhealthy food choices, picking a lower quantity of high-calorie, relative to low-calorie, foods.”
What’s the solution? I’ve found two solutions:
- Let’s say it’s 8 in the evening, and you feel hungry. As a preventive measure, you don’t have pizza or chocolate in the house, but there are other temptations. The first solution is to settle for less. OK, perhaps not pizza, but how about some food which you do find very tasty, but is much less taxing? I like some nuts & seeds, fish caviar, eggplant salad, and even combinations of milk/kefir and bread/polenta (some people don’t like this, while I most certainly do). Even if you eat some jam and bread, it’s not like you eat some chocolate in the evening.
- The second solution is not to exaggerate the portions. Do you feel like eating some food? Go ahead, but don’t eat until you are 100% full, leave some food for tomorrow. You’ll surely live to see the new day.
With my solution, even if for the day perhaps you’ll eat more calories than in a typical day with calorie restrictions in place, you will not lose much time.
Second-best solutions can be great, too!
Minimize your losses.
