This is how you know you're spending too much time in the gym.

[Salty]

hahaha good one Donny, never heard anyone say that before. Got to say I get quite grumpy when I'm hungry as well, or when lazy people don't work as hard as they should and have huge ques lining up.

[donnydarkoIRL]

I don't really get grumpy that I'm hungry, but I am trying to keep my meals and training times standardised and she was messing my day up!!!

[Sharla]

I get grumpy - anyone between me and my food needs to be very careful!

Honestly - you train - you get hungry - you need to eat within a certain amount of time!

If I take to long to get food when i'm hungry I'll get stomach cramps for hours becuase my stomach doesn't want to wait anymore and just starts digesting itself!

[donnydarkoIRL]

I get grumpy - anyone between me and my food needs to be very careful!

Honestly - you train - you get hungry - you need to eat within a certain amount of time!

If I take to long to get food when i'm hungry I'll get stomach cramps for hours becuase my stomach doesn't want to wait anymore and just starts digesting itself!

Yeah I need to eat shortly after training.

I've come up with a new theory on appetitie now, so I'm experimenting on that.

[Sharla]

What's your theory?

[donnydarkoIRL]

What's your theory?

I was just experimenting the past few days.

I had heard a theory before that there was a diet that relied on the smell of food to satisfy cravings.

My theory is that if you spend the time to prepare food, cooking or whatever, sit down to enjoy the meal and have a little repose time after, your hunger will be satisfied so much more than grabbing food, and eating it on the fly.

The prepartion will allow you to savour the texture and aroma of the food - both are helpful in quenching appetite.
Food is the eaten slowly in comfort, allowing mechanical and chemical digestion to work, but not as quickly as if the food was eaten quickly and shortly before or after exertion.
Some time afterward is allowed for slow digestion.


Theoretically this seems to quench hunger for a longer duration than pre-prepared food.
I think it really works and although it seems basic, I neglect it everyday.

[Sharla]

I've read that smelling sweet foods can help seet tooths loose weight because they don't need to eat them as much.

I think for me it'd only work if I still ate at the same time - so would have to be able to prepare it earlier - which would be hard because I wouldnt' usually be home.

If I postpone eating when I'm hungry I just get hungrier and then want to eat more - with a sort of tragic, frantic desperation especially with specific cravings oddly enough!

Just recently though i've noticed I don't get chocolate cravings on days when i eat mixed nuts at some stage in the morning.

I'm thinking either the nuts are low GI and have an ability to stop the sugar cravings associated with higher GI intake or there's something in them somewhere I'm lacking that I crave in chocolate.