Re: hungry?

[Guest guest]

,

You're definitely not alone on the not really knowing hunger in the

beginning of IE. It may be helpful to read the thread about

Principle 2 - " Honor Your Hunger " that starts with Arnie's post

number:Message #17028. My post on hunger is 17029.

I went through a phase of tracking my hunger cycle over the course

of several days. I would wait for obvious hunger signals, then eat,

then track the progression of fullness to hunger to develop an

understanding of how my body gets to hunger. For example, I now know

that my abdomen area gets warm before the growls begin.

I read somewhere that if you have to think about if you're hungry,

you're probably not hungry and I've found this to be true. I believe

that developing an intuitive sense of hunger takes some time and

initial effort to get to know your hunger. Over the course of the

past months, I get this " knowing " that I'm hungry...it's not a

thought that I'm hungry...I feel that I'm hungry. I also prefer to

wait for obvious hunger signals before eating...it helps keep me out

of the gray zone of potentially eating for non-hunger reasons.

Latoya

How do you tell when you're really just

hungry? or not hungry? It feels a little embarrasing just admitting

that I don't know.

[Guest guest]

I've been doing pretty well with this, but there still is some gray

area for me at times. Thanks for posting the hunger scale you made

Christie. I think I might copy it down or make one of my own!