Tamannaah Bhatia’s Fitness Coach Recommends 3 Ways To Curb Evening Hunger Pangs

It is during evening hours that a strong desire for snacks frequently strikes, and these cravings can be insatiable as one quickly overindulges in unhealthy junk foods for the sole purpose of taming their appetite. However, giving in to such overwhelming desires may completely sabotage your weight loss efforts or knock you off track if you are striving for a calorie-deficit diet.

Taking on this common challenge, celebrity fitness instructor Siddhartha Singh, who trains celebrities such as Tamannaah Bhatia, showed three easy ways to successfully deal with or reduce annoying evening hunger pangs.

 

 

 

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Here are three expert strategies from the fitness coach on how to dial down those food cravings effectively:

1. Power Your Diet with Protein and Fibre

The first important step involves checking for nutritional gaps in your daily intake of food. The two most important powerhouse nutrients that you need to deliberately add to your diet to feel fuller longer are protein and fibre.

As the fitness coach noted, "Increase protein and fibre intake in your nutrition. Have more protein, have more fibre. This is going to keep you fuller for longer." Meeting your daily intake helps to avoid that dramatic, sudden drop in satiety that many times leads to evening snacking.

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2. Distinguish True Hunger from Emotional Eating

Next, you need to understand the root of your urge to eat—is it real hunger or is your brain playing a trick on you? The coach suggests you stop and do something around that time to break the cycle of craving.

"Ask yourself, are you having cravings because you are hungry? Or are your cravings because you are just bored or stressed? In those cases, think about standing up and walking around for ten minutes," he advises. He also says that 99.9% of the time, this simple break and movement is enough to make the craving disappear.

Most individuals mistake psychological hunger, which is driven by stress or boredom, for physiological hunger, or actual and physical need. A short walk helps minimise stress and provides clarity to overcome emotional eating.

3. Take Control with Pre-Planning

When hunger strikes, you often lose all capacity for logic and impulsively reach for the nearest item, healthy or not. The final method involves pre-empting the cravings so you're in control.

The coach suggests establishing a time when your cravings usually get to you and setting a trap that is healthy. Using his own habits as an example, he now explains: "If you know, like me, that you're going to crave something at around 5:30 PM in the evening, my cravings are usually crunchy and sweet, so I plan my snacks around something like a Greek Yoghurt bowl with some berries and maybe some granola in it."

By having a snack pre-planned that is high in protein and on plan, you satisfy your specific craving, while simultaneously avoiding the impulsive consumption of an unwanted alternative. This pre-planning keeps you accountable to the goals set for yourself.

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