What is the HighSatiety Diet?
The HighSatiety Diet is a hunger-reducing weight management strategy created by weight loss specialists and accredited nutritionists who have become disillusioned with the long-term effectiveness of traditional calorie-restrictive regimes.
Calorie restriction has been the standard strategy for overweight and obesity for decades, but its long-term success rate is extremely low. Most people lose some weight, but then progress stalls, and they give up. Dieters are typically blamed; however, there's convincing evidence that this approach is instrumental in its failure. Limiting calories triggers a normal biological response which stimulates hunger. This drives an increase in energy intake, sabotaging future weight loss.
Why do diets fail?
Historically an inability to sustain healthy eating behaviours has been blamed for these poor long term weight loss outcomes. Evidence has been accumulating, though, that normal physiological responses to calorie restriction may be the main reason weight loss tapers or is regained over the longer term. Metabolism typically drops, reducing energy expenditure and appetite increases making it much more difficult for you to adhere to your diet.
The solution?
Managing and mitigating hunger and appetite rather than indiscriminately reducing energy intake, is emerging as an effective long term weight management strategy. This is essentially how the weight loss medication semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy), often referred to as the "skinny jab" works. By acting on specific hunger hormones these treatments reduce calorie intake promoting long term weight loss.
Whilst these medications have been hailed as a weight loss silver bullet, they are not available to everyone, they come at a cost and also may cause significant side effects.
Fortunately certain foods also have an equivalent effect on our appetite and hunger levels Therefore our food choices may be more influential in satisfying hunger than the number of calories we consume. These foods form the cornerstone of the HighSatiety diet.