Menopause and Hunger

I have heard of people writhing on the floor for a piece of bread.

My clients will call me and tell me how they are light-headed, shaky, and sweating because they are hungry.

I’ll ask them when they ate their last meal.

They will tell me ‘at lunchtime.’

I look at my watch and it’s 4 PM.

They ate at 1 PM.

So, what is this feeling they are having?

IT’S NOT TRUE HUNGER!

IT’S FALSE HUNGER!

In most cases, it’s withdrawals from a food addiction or worse from an overeating addiction.

Then why am I trembling, light headed and sweating? She asks.

Have you ever seen someone kick heroin or alcohol? They are trembling, light headed and sweating. Yes, I know that those addictions can be a lot worse than these symptoms.

You get the point.

I can hear many of you say, I know that I am not eating enough food. I have low blood sugar.

In 35 years of practice, I have heard this weekly.

I would tell my client to go purchase a glucometer from the local pharmacy.

(I think every American should check their blood sugar at least weekly.)

They cost around $15.

I would have them check their blood sugar. Remember they are trembling, light headed and sweating. Glucometer from Amazon

I HAVE NEVER HAD ONE OF THOSE CLIENTS REGISTER A LOW BLOOD SUGAR READING!

[The only time I have seen low blood sugar readings are in diabetic clients who are eating clean and have lost weight. Their medication needs to be adjusted. It is important for every diabetic who is on medication to check their blood sugar often when eating healthy and losing weight and then with their doctor adjust their medication appropriately.]

If you are not on diabetic medication, there is a 99.9% chance that you are not suffering from low blood sugar.

YOU ARE HAVING WITHDRAWALS!

One day I was walking through the living room and our teenage son was watching a television show called Naked and Afraid.

Have you ever watched it?

It has nothing to do with nudity or sex.

It has to do with surviving in treacherous lands with nothing, no clothes, no food and only one tool.

I sat intrigued and watched it.

They take 2 strangers, one a woman and the other a man, and place them in the jungles of South America or somewhere similar to mosquitos and animals that want to eat you.

This couple has to survive for 21 days.

Most of these couples are in pretty good shape, meaning they are rarely overweight.

In fact, they are usually on the skinny side for being Americans.

On this particular show, they ate 3 meager protein meals in 21 days.

They survived.

Yes! They both lost 20 to 25 pounds.

They also could not sleep well, they had to work hard to make shelter, and they had to hunt and gather all in the scorching heat.

Not one of these contestants has ever died.

YOU CAN GO 5 HOURS WITHOUT HAVING A MEAL, I PROMISE!

Once you get through these withdrawals, I am going to teach you even more about hunger.

In fact, the primary way you are going to keep your weight off is through a process called mindful eating.

That is down the road.

If you are hungry during The Mac Vegetein Diet, there is a possibility that you are spiking your insulin.

Please contact me.

Let me explain.

Let’s say that I decided to not eat lunch, but instead, I had a pastry.

The sugar in the pastry will cause blood sugar to rise; therefore, insulin will be released.

Insulin will remove the sugar from my blood and store it in my cells.

My blood sugar becomes lower than it usually is, NOT LOW, just lower than it usually is.

This will cause me to feel hungry.

Diabetics understand what I mean.

Let’s say a diabetic averages a blood sugar level of 250, quite common.

Normal is around 80.

When that diabetic starts taking medication and his blood sugar dips to 200, she will feel like she has low blood sugar and actually has the symptoms related to low blood sugar.

That is what many of you will feel like you have low blood sugar.

I promise you are not going to die!

You are going to live longer and with a higher quality of life.

YOUR BODY IS TRYING TO GAIN A NORMAL HEALTHIER STATE.

DON’T FALL FOR ITS PLEAS.

YOUR BODY IS ADDICTED TO EXCESSIVE FOOD CONSUMPTION!

Green Tea Extract and Appetite

Green Tea affects your appetite.

You ask what’s the difference between hunger and appetite?

Hunger is the body telling you it needs fuel.

Appetite is your appetite hormones telling you to eat.

Your appetite hormones tell you it’s noon, it’s time to eat.

Green tea has been found to help regulate our appetite hormones.

One study found that it had a mild but significant impact on weight loss compared to a placebo.

Another study found that the reason why green tea affected weight was that it lowered ghrelin levels.

Ghrelin is the hunger hormone.

I’ll say it again. it’s all about the hormones!

I have never seen a side effect from taking green tea extract, but be on the lookout for mild headaches and increased blood pressure according to some articles.

Green tea extract is our first choice when looking for something to help with appetite induced by false hunger.

And green tea extract will improve your weight loss abilities.

Green Tea Extract From Amazon

Saffron and Emotional Eating

Over the last several years saffron has received a lot of attention for being an appetite suppressant.

There is an extract of saffron called satiereal, which helps with emotional eating.

If you have a difficult time not snacking, we recommend giving this a try.

One of the reasons we snack has to do with the neurotransmitter serotonin.

Snacking affects our pleasure center.

Satiereal within saffron has been shown to help with snacking by increasing our serotonin levels, which inhibits emotional eating.

This supplement needs to be taken for a few weeks before a change will be seen.

If you find snacking to be a comforting action, and you are finding it difficult to give it up, you may want to give Saffron a try.

Saffron Extract

Fiber Supplements and Fullness

Fiber also helps flush yeast and other funguses from your body.

This helps with inflammation. The less inflamed you are the better balanced your hormones will be.

We favor organic whole husk psyllium.

It has both soluble and insoluble fibers within it.

This fiber also works well as a prebiotic for our symbiotic (the good) bacteria.

Make sure to use fiber supplements with no added sugar or other ingredients that can be detrimental to your ketosis.

We recommend taking 2 500 milligram capsules prior to each meal

Organic Psyllium Husk Supplement From Amazon