Turn Off your Appetite the Easy Way
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One of the newest entries in the seemingly overcrowded weight loss field is the hoodia gordonii plant. It has been used for generations by bushmen in Africa to suppress hunger and appetite on long hunting trips.
By turning off your appetite, hoodia allows you to curb the amounts of food you are eating without making a great effort. You don’t think about eating, so you don’t eat. And as a nice side benefit, you lose weight.
Your late night cravings disappear. Your constant junk food snacking decreases. It’s almost as if someone magically gave you a will power transplant to monitor your food intake.
Hoodia has become so popular that you can find many brands selling in your neighborhood stores today. The theory is that Hoodia works by fooling your brain into believing that you are full. Some have found that using it decreased their caloric intake by as much as 1,000 calories a day.
But even though the Hoodia Gordonii plant has been proven to suppress the appetite, there are some caveats that you should be aware of before you try it yourself.
One is that it’s the plant itself that has been proven to suppress the appetite, not diet supplements developed from the plants. So although many people swear that Hoodia Gordonii has helped them to lose weight, there has yet to be an independent double blind study that will verify it’s weight loss prowess.
Two, scientists have been researching the Hoodia plant for almost a decade and so far have found that it doesn’t cause any harmful side effects. This is much more than can be said of fat burners such as ephedra which can be very dangerous, especially if you have any kind of heart condition.
Three, hoodia in its pure form has no stimulants. It will not make your heart race or cause other known side-effects. It will not give you the shakes, make your heart race or raise your body temperature
Four, the only hoodia that has been shown to suppress the appetite has been hoodia that is grown in the soils of Africa. If the company you are considering purchasing hoodia from does not certify that its hoodia originates from South Africa, you will not be getting what is considered “real” hoodia.
Will hoodia work for you? We don’t know. Our bodies all respond differently. We all have different experiences with foods, supplements, and drugs. Pure hoodia supplements are expensive. Fortunately, the better companies offer money back guarantees so you can try it and if it doesn’t work for you, simple send it back.
Janice Kaszursky
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/turn-off-your-appetite-the-easy-way-98142.html
5 Comments
April 3rd, 2010 at 12:16 am
No appetite while pregnant; what's an easy way to still consume healthy calories?
I’m 20 weeks’ pregnant, and just found out at my OB appointment this morning that I’m LOSING weight. My doctor wasn’t terribly worried; I’ve been great about taking prenatal vitamins (even months before we conceived), and the baby is SUPER active lately. She just said to make sure I eat about 6 mini meals per day from this point forward. Thing is, I just haven’t been hungry, and nothing really appeals to me. I’ve been making myself eat (pretty darn healthy meals to boot), but I just fill up pretty fast, or when I sit down to eat, the food suddenly turns me off. I’ve heard that Ensure is a good way to up the calories, but I also know it contains a lot of sugar, which I really don’t want. I know the obvious answer is to "just eat more, and more often," but if the appetite is not there, it’s not that easy. Have any of you ladies out there experienced this at this point in your pregnancy? (BTW, this is not related to morning sickness in any way…been there, done that. I’m not nauseated by food; just not interested in it.) Is there something out there that’s easily accessible, tasty, and relatively good for me that I can drink without having to consume tons of sugar with it? I’m going to try my hardest to eat larger quantities more often, but I feel that I should also have the option of a supplement of some sort. Any ideas?
Thanks!
April 3rd, 2010 at 5:18 am
For me, it’s only been the last 6 weeks that I have actually started to gain weight (I am 26w4d). The time I was 20 weeks I had lost 15 pounds, which is normal. I also had a hard time eating and getting food in because I would get full super fast.
As long as you are trying to get something into you every 3 hours, the baby will be fine and will get enough nutrients. What I did was made sure I always had a bowl of cereal and a banana in the morning, then for a snack I would have some sort of fruit and yogurt. Then for lunch I would try and get in a sandwich (like tuna) or soup with crackers. Then for an afternoon snack I would have a granola bar and yogurt. For supper, chicken, rice and veggies (you know, that kind of thing).
I found that if I ate foods that don’t fill you up as fast I could get more in. Hopefully for you, this should end soon and then it’s the opposite problem, hungry pretty much all of the time lol.
Good Luck
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April 3rd, 2010 at 5:20 am
I was the same way as you. I didn’t get my appetite back until I was four weeks away from my due date and by that point there was seriously just no room in there for as much food as I wanted to consume. I also lost weight during my first two trimesters, finally my doctor told me if I didn’t start gaining some he’d put me on bed rest and force feed me himself.
I tried ensure, but honestly the stuff is nasty! Next I went with making my own smoothies, lots of fruit (even a few veggies mixed in so I couldn’t taste them as much, but still got the nutrients). I used, whole milk (about a cup) some yoplait yogurt (your choice on plain or flavored), and then I added things like bananas, oranges, grapes, and peaches (not all at the same time, different ones each time). Try to avoid things like raspberries that have a lot of hard little seeds (strawberries are fine though).
However, even with this, you still need to find a way to get protein into your diet. Even if it just forcing yourself to eat a couple eggs in the morning.
For me, whenever I sat down to eat, I’d take a bite or two then everything just tasted like cardboard for me. I’d try the smoothie idea if I were you.
I ended up gaining 15 pounds in the last five weeks of my pregnancy, which made my doctor absurdly happy. Good luck, hon!
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April 3rd, 2010 at 5:22 am
smoothies and fresh squeezed juices are keeping me going at the moment, along with small meals of plain pasta and mashed potatoes. Thoroughly boring, but I just can’t stomach much else. I have been drinking the Ensure extra protein for breakfast when I could face it, but it really is incredibly sweet and does nothing to help with nausea. I’ve also been trying to eat soups whenever I can as well. Easier to go down than full meals… just choose ones with lean protein and lots of veggies in it.
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April 3rd, 2010 at 5:24 am
I am 16 weeks, and have lost 4-5 lbs. Of course, that is a lot to do with nausea and vomiting, but now I am starting to feel better but the appetite is not back. I just don’t feel like eating any meat, or any whole meals.
So, I’ve been drinking a lot of fluids…milkshakes (home-made), V8 (low sodium), Gatorade–diluted, and so on.
I have a hard-boiled egg 3 times a week, and crackers and cheese.
I am afraid I am not getting enough protein because I can’t stand meat right now, but the doc. says I should be fine.
At this point, I am not concerned about the weight but the kind of nutrients I am getting into my body. There is only so much I can worry about.
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