After quitting, it is normal to gain weight because smoking increase in your metabolism and so after quitting your metabolism decrease.
Are you eating more food or more often? If so, your mind is probably telling you that you need to eat more often to deal with the oral fixation some smokers get, but keep control over cravings.
Smoking is as much of an oral fixation as it is a chemical dependency.
During this period, you are actually using food as cigarette substitution and remember that Smoking has changes your metabolism so when you quit your metabolism slows terribly even if you continue to exercise you may not reduce weight instantly, therefore this will continue for some time.
Nevertheless, you still have to control it However, you should also take note that your appetite has increased because everything tastes better.
You now want to eat everything that taste better which is making you to gain weight faster than you expected, and you are now concise in losing the weight gain, If you want to lose the weight, do so by lowering your caloric intake and increasing your activity.
In the process of controlling your weight, you will start be controlling your appetite, you can do this by trying the following.
Drink a glass of water before you eat.
If that does not fill you up then you are probably hungry.
If you do not think, you are hungry, but still want to eat try a toothpick, gum, suckers etc.
You may also try eating smaller more frequent meals, such as five small meals per day instead of two or three big ones.
Include uncooked fruits and vegetables in your food.
Take nothing but water in between the meals.
Chew each morsel for sometimes.
This improves digestion besides activating your brain telling you that you have had enough.
Include uncooked fruits and vegetables in your food.
Take nothing but water in between the meals.
Are you eating more food or more often? If so, your mind is probably telling you that you need to eat more often to deal with the oral fixation some smokers get, but keep control over cravings.
Smoking is as much of an oral fixation as it is a chemical dependency.
During this period, you are actually using food as cigarette substitution and remember that Smoking has changes your metabolism so when you quit your metabolism slows terribly even if you continue to exercise you may not reduce weight instantly, therefore this will continue for some time.
Nevertheless, you still have to control it However, you should also take note that your appetite has increased because everything tastes better.
You now want to eat everything that taste better which is making you to gain weight faster than you expected, and you are now concise in losing the weight gain, If you want to lose the weight, do so by lowering your caloric intake and increasing your activity.
In the process of controlling your weight, you will start be controlling your appetite, you can do this by trying the following.
Drink a glass of water before you eat.
If that does not fill you up then you are probably hungry.
If you do not think, you are hungry, but still want to eat try a toothpick, gum, suckers etc.
You may also try eating smaller more frequent meals, such as five small meals per day instead of two or three big ones.
Include uncooked fruits and vegetables in your food.
Take nothing but water in between the meals.
Chew each morsel for sometimes.
This improves digestion besides activating your brain telling you that you have had enough.
Include uncooked fruits and vegetables in your food.
Take nothing but water in between the meals.