If you’ve been through one diet program after another with no positive results, you may want to try an alternative way of losing weight. After “dieting herself fat”, Dr. Amanda Sainsbury-Salis decided there has to be a better way of shedding pounds and she found it by listening to her body. Possibly one of the best weight management programs around, Dr. Amanda’s “Don’t Go Hungry” diet is based on two physiological mechanisms that she defines as the Famine Reaction and the Fat Reaction.
She defines the Famine Reaction as basic hunger, the body’s response when your food supply becomes dangerously low. With the body demanding you to eat, you’ll need to acquiesce or leave the nourishment urge to grow. As such, you’ll need to eat to relieve the hunger until you’re satisfied.
The Fat Reaction, on the other had, is the body’s signal that it has had enough to eat. It is usually manifested as a feeling of discomfort and fullness that can lead to weight gain when constantly ignored. In a nutshell, the Don’t Go Hungry program relies on listening to our bodies’ subtle signals, instead of engaging in a fad eating program.
To avoid gaining unnecessary weight when feeding yourself, Dr. Amanda encourages focusing the diet on whole foods - grains, fruits and vegetables. Additionally, dieters are trained to turn to food types that are low on the Glycemic Index, to maximize long-term energy results. Food choices that are high on the index typically produce high levels of energy followed by a sudden drop.
Her book, called “The Don’t Go Hungry Diet”, details what to look out for when tuning in to both the Fat and Famine responses as well as the kinds of food she believes are best to be used when satisfying hunger.
