The hunger sensation is regulated by several hormones and nervous signals from the stomach.

Most of these hormone signals are in fact driven by the types of nutrients you eat and the amount of sugar in your bloodstream. A full or empty stomach actually has limited impact.

Understanding these factors allows you to build a strategy to eat less without going hungry.  

And those strategies go way beyond the typical eat more often or don’t skip breakfast.  

And no matter what people tell you, eating less is absolutely necessary for fat loss.

The fat loss industry is so intent on selling that they will have you believe that they have a solution that will allow you to eat 4000 calories, burn 2000 and still lose fat.

Other offers consist in products designed to boost your metabolism so high it can compensate constant over-eating (by increasing body temperature, which in fact only happens when you have a fever).  You can only increase your metabolism by a couple hundred calories a day at best, which helps a lot but is by no means enough on its own.

You can try losing weight on a high calorie diet all you want:  it won’t work.  Calories are either stored or burned.  If they aren’t, then they are in your blood waiting for one of the two to happen.

There is no other way out.  The day you have glucose in your urine is the day you have diabetes, kidney failure or both.  You don’t want either.

Thankfully, it doesn’t mean you have to eat like a POW.  There is always room for the occasional break (actually, those are necessary for very specific biochemical reasons).

But on the long run, there absolutely must be an average calorie deficit which means eating less while increasing your metabolism.

That calorie deficit is easy to maintain if you apply real strategies against with hunger. Otherwise you can tough it out for a few weeks, or perhaps months.  You cannot do that your entire life.

Thankfully again, putting the theory in practice is easy and progressive.  If it wasn’t, I would still be fat.   Really, I am definitely NOT one of those iron-willed people.