When you get tired and need a lot of rest, and when your concentration and immunity level drop, you are more likely to crave sweets. They actually wake you up as soon as you eat them, which is why we see many cases of people being addicted to sugar. Sugar can wake you up temporarily because your taste buds start working following the signals emitted by the neurotransmitters as your body attempts to adjust the balance between sympathetic nerves and parasympathetic nerves.

However, this has an adverse effect on cells that were quietly putting in their best effort to maintain your health. For them, this is a war-like metabolic process that happens abruptly in a flash while they were previously taking a step-by-step approach as guided by the body’s constancy system.

Healthy people are those with healthy cells that make up their body. Cells are generated by the food we eat on a daily basis, and they help to build the body’s health by exchanging signals as they go through the different metabolic stages and maintain the homeostatic system. Nutrients necessary in the metabolic stage of cells that are organically connected to one another are adjusted through interactions, so they are rarely needed urgently. Therefore, unlike food cravings, a healthy appetite is not intense, nor does it come abruptly as if testing your patience.

Food cravings are an intense, irresistible desire for strong tasting food, and they result in awkward guilt and self-rationalization, but a healthy appetite is revealed as a natural appetite for proper food and keeps your body feeling comfortable even after eating a sufficient amount of food.

“I am what I eat.”
You must have heard this saying many times, but the absolute code of practice in diverse clinical diet guides rather states,
“I am how I eat.”

When we eat, our body uses or stores the nutrients that are necessary in our body and metabolizes them so as to discharge any unnecessary ingredients from the body. This is all done by the cells. As cells are responsible for the body’s metabolism, the most essential thing is to maintain the body in the best possible state for these cells to work, which is affected less by what you eat, but more by your habit of how you eat.

The reason that healthy food and healthy diet tips given as part of the copious amount of health information available quickly reveal their limit is because they are not focused on cell activities that naturally occur in our bodies, recklessly adopting certain clinical cases under the supposition that they would be effective for anyone, and unfortunately, people often follow these suggestions without any doubt.

2. Eat 20% less!
You need some space inside the stomach for the smooth digestion, and absorption of nutrients, and stomach movement for metabolism. So, if the amount of food that makes you feel full is 100, you need to lower the amount down to 80. If you eat until you are completely full or until your stomach bulges out, it will slow down the stomach movement. In the end, this will hamper the food from being mixed, sterilized, and decomposed, leaving behind traces of food inside the stomach to generate toxins and cause stomach disorders.

4. Eat soup with a spoon!
When eating soups, try to eat solid ingredients and use a spoon. When you eat, the jaw movement inside the mouth sends a signal to your body from the softening process of the sphincter that is connected all the way from the throat. All digestive organs are interconnected with the body’s metabolism. If you drink the soup quickly, however, this entire process becomes omitted, which leads to incomplete digestion. One thing to note here is that drinking soup is the number one cause of reflux esophagitis and esophageal cancer!

7. Finish dinner four hours before bedtime (at least three hours).
One thing that is more important than keeping an interval of four to six hours between meals is the time between dinner and bedtime. When you sleep, your digestive system also stops working and takes a rest. If there is food inside the intestine, it will start to decompose, and cells will have to absorb the toxins that are produced. This is the biggest cause of metabolic disturbances, morning fatigue, and bad breath.

This may sound trivial to you, and you may overlook these tips thinking that they are too general. Eating well relaxes your digestive system, fills your cells with nutrients, and leads to a healthy appetite. It takes between 12 to 260 days to get into a habit of having a healthy appetite depending on the person. Susan Peirce Thompson, the author of Bright Line Eating and a doctor of neuroscience and psychology, has announced data showing that it takes 66 days on average for an eating habit to become an automatic system. But even if you only try practicing a healthy diet just for a week before it becomes a habit, you will feel your stomach getting smaller and you will also feel less tired.

If you get into a habit of eating healthily, you can lose weight, adjust your blood sugar and blood pressure levels, cut down on cholesterol, reduce fatigue, relieve stress, and enhance blood circulation without stressing over other things. I hope you will form a habit based on these Seven tips on how to eat well to develop a healthy appetite, which are the basics of the basics, do not cost money, nor do they lure you into the trap of yo-yo dieting.