Eat non-stop in winter? Overcome false hunger with 3 secrets of appetite control from a female Chinese doctor!

Can’t control your appetite in winter and want to eat snacks right after dinner? There are many wedding banquets, Spring Festival and year-end dinner parties at the end of the year. Even if you dress up beautifully, you still can't help but feast on food? Be careful, eating too much and causing fat to accumulate in the body will make you fat! What should you do if you want to maintain a good figure but can't control the gluttony in your mouth? A female Chinese medicine practitioner shares 3 secrets to overcome false hunger!

"False hunger" makes people eat non-stop, be careful of gaining weight in winter

The temperature is low in winter, and the human body will automatically increase its "basal metabolic rate", consuming heat in the body and converting it into energy to maintain a proper body temperature and good physiological functions. Logically speaking, under this principle, winter should be a very suitable season for weight loss. However, for many people, winter is a killer for weight loss. Why?

Chinese medicine practitioner Lai Ruixin believes the answer is "false hunger"! Many people have an irregular diet, especially for breakfast, where they often have a sandwich with a cup of milk tea, or a piece of bread with a cup of coffee. Not only does this make the body's nutrition unbalanced and insufficient, it also causes blood sugar to rise and fall rapidly, leading to disordered brain signals, sending out false hunger messages, and making people want to eat at every turn. It’s hard not to gain weight after eating like this in the winter!

Overcoming false hunger ~ A female Chinese medicine practitioner shares 3 tips for controlling appetite

How to overcome the false hunger in winter? Dr. Lai Ruixin shares 3 tips:

Tip 1: Prepare a hearty and nutritious breakfast

If the body does not get enough energy, the degree of hunger and overeating in winter may be more than twice that of summer. Therefore, the first step to control appetite in winter is to eat a hearty and satisfying breakfast. When eating, you need to slow down your eating speed and chew slowly. If you eat a large amount of food in a hurry, it will not only increase the burden on gastrointestinal digestion, but also greatly increase the chance of obesity.

Tip 2: Drink warm water regularly

Water is an indispensable component for the body, and warm water at around 40°C can increase metabolism, eliminate toxins, maintain youthfulness, and increase satiety. Drinking a glass of warm water before meals or when you feel hungry can increase your sense of fullness and prevent overeating caused by false hunger.

Tip 3: Massage the ear acupuncture points more often

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the five internal organs, nine orifices of the skin, limbs and bones are all closely connected with the auricle through meridians. Regular stimulation of the ear acupoints can adjust the body's functions, dredge qi and blood, promote lung function and eliminate turbidity, and promote dampness and reduce fat. From the perspective of Western medicine, ear acupoint massage can stimulate the vagus nerve and adjust the secretion of insulin to achieve the effect of suppressing appetite and assisting weight loss.

Dr. Lai Ruixin, a Chinese medicine practitioner, said that ear acupuncture for weight loss often uses hunger points, endocrine points, stomach points, mouth points, Shenmen points, triple burner points, lung points, heart points, etc. It is sufficient to choose 2 or 3 points to stimulate at a time. However, the ears are small and it is difficult for most people to find the correct acupoints. It is recommended to change to a large-scale ear massage. After rubbing your palms to generate heat, cover the ears, moving back and forth 20 times; then use the thumb and index finger to gently rub the upper part of the ear until the earlobe; finally, flip the outside of the ear and pull the earlobe, which can also help suppress appetite.

Stay away from the weight loss plateau and moderately increase the amount of exercise to help metabolism

Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner Lai Ruixin said that using the above three appetite suppressing methods can help lose weight. As long as you persist, you will usually notice a weight loss in 2 to 3 weeks. However, the most feared thing about weight loss is encountering a plateau period. Don't be discouraged at this time. Adjust your daily diet, adopt a balanced diet with low calories and high protein, increase your exercise to increase your metabolic rate, and use proper Chinese medicine conditioning to help avoid the plateau period and achieve your weight loss goals smoothly and healthily.