Satiety is a concept that derives from satiĕtas, a Latin word. The notion refers to the sensation that occurs at excessively satisfy a certain desire or need .
For example: “The old man ate for hours without reaching satiety”, "Nutritionists always try to make their patients have more satiety and less appetite", “There are writers who correct and correct their stories to satiety”.
Typically, the idea of satiety is associated with food. A person reaches satiety when your body no longer demands food . Satiety, in this sense, appears when the body does not require more nutrients.
When a person follows one diet Special to lose weight, the goal is usually to reach satiety with a smaller amount of food (or with less caloric foods). This translates into the intake of less food without the individual feeling for that decline what we commonly call hungry or appetite .
Satiety can also be linked to other needs or wishes . A teenager can watch hours and hours of a television series to satiety (that is, until he has no desire to continue watching the series in question). A journalist, on the other hand, can reread his articles several times until he reaches satiety and consider that he no longer has to continue correcting them.
In some cases, satiety is considered as something that already tired or exhausted : “We talked about the project to satiety, it's time to leave the words and take action”.
Tricks to reach satiety
As mentioned earlier, the goal of many diets to lose weight is to get satiety to take place through consumption of the least amount of food possible, or through products of low caloric content. Let's see below some of the most effective tricks to achieve this state:
* Maintain a fixed schedule for meals. This is one of the fundamental points, since it avoids the sensation of spontaneous hunger typical of people who eat at all times. On the other hand, it also makes the satisfaction after each intake;
* Eat slowly and in small portions, taking the time to properly chew each bite and savoring it. This must also go hand in hand with a conscious feeding, to eat only the amount we need and avoid dishes that we find heavy or difficult to digest;
* ask ourselves actively in the middle of each meal if we have reached satiety. This is especially difficult when we are facing our favorite dish, and that is why it is important to force ourselves to slow down and think if we really want to continue eating;
* avoid the distractions , such as television, music or newspapers. Nutrition specialists ensure that these external stimuli undermine the correct perception of satiety. Similarly, when we eat with other people, it is recommended to pause conversations;
* incorporate raw green leafy vegetable foods. These foods offer us many benefits, since in addition to their low content caloric they also increase the feeling of satiety;
* Especially for lovers of good food, it is important to have a "feast" once in a while. If we intend to take care of ourselves at meals without exception for well-defined deadlines and to reward ourselves periodically, it becomes much easier to accept the limits;
* not continue to eat out of shame if we are in a meeting . There are people who, for reasons of insecurity, continue to eat despite having reached satiety, simply for fearing the reaction of others or for not knowing what to do until others have finished.
