Controlling hunger hormones such as insulin, leptin and grehlin, is the best way to avoid overeating. When you're not always hungry, you're more likely to stay on a healthier diet.

Here are five tips to help control those hunger hormones:

1. Get Enough Sleep. This is the oldest trick in the book. Allowing our bodies enough time to rest is the best protection against potentially unhealthy lifestyle choices. Sleep deprivation can decrease insulin sensitivity and leptin levels, while increasing levels of grehlin, thus increasing hunger and appetite as well.

2. Eat Complex Carbs. As always avoid over processed foods and drinks like soda and candy. A high-fiber, vegetable/fruit-friendly diet can help avoid rapid insulin response, which can increase hunger.

3. High-Protein Diet. Studies show a heavy-protein breakfast actually decreases hunger and reduces food intake for the rest of the day.

4. Exercise. Aerobic exercise can decrease appetite by suppressing grehlin levels. Four 30-minute workouts a week would be a good routine.

Overweight people are insulin-resistant. Just to maintain normal blood-sugar levels they have to find a way to increase insulin production. That can be difficult because of increased fat storage.

5. Reduce Stress. Chronic stress can increase levels of grehlin the body. Cortisol, a stress-related hormone has been proven to cause belly fat. Reducing stress is essential to lasting weight-control.

When people let their hunger hormones control them they leave little hope to a lasting healthy diet. By controlling hormones you can avoid snacking and overeating and finally start losing weight efficiently.