Your body’s hunger hormones can play a big role in weight re-gain. The key to controlling this, is knowing how this hormone works and how to help keep yourself satisfied through out the day.
In this video Dr. Adam Crawford explains how you can suppress Ghrelin, the humger hormone, and make better choices at dinner time.
With the right education and support, sustainable weight loss is achievable at Figure Weight Loss.
Our providers are board certified in obesity medicine and want to educate you on the different aspects of losing the weight and what it takes to keep it off. If you’re one of those people who tend to overindulge at dinner, you know first hand the negative impact this can have on your weight loss journey.
There’s a reason you feel like your starving by dinner time and that reason’s name is Ghrelin.
Title: Quick Tip Director Compliance and Patient Care
In this video, Dr Crawford explains how ghrelin affects your hunger and the best way to keep it under control.
Let's talk about an afternoon snack. Three or four o'clock in the afternoon, we're busy, we're probably not hungry because you've already adapted that breakfast, you're doing your lunch. But three or four o'clock in the afternoon, I want you to have a little snack. Not a big one — we're only talking about 100 to 200 calories. But the importance of the snack is to control a hormone that will get in the way of your ultimate weight loss. The hormone's name is ghrelin. Ghrelin goes to your brain and makes you think you're hungrier than you really are. So if you go from lunch all the way to dinner time, you don't have a little snack, it's hard to control your appetite at dinner — even though you had a great lunch. But a little snack in the afternoon, preferably with more protein than carbs — a second protein shake, maybe a Greek yogurt, protein bar of some sort, apples and peanut butter, maybe a fruit smoothie — something on your belly will help you be better at dinner. Hope you have a great week.
Dr. Crawford is board certified in Bariatric Medicine.
He also retains his board certification in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
