Re: HELP! NO hunger sensation at all...

[Guest guest]

Well, here's my thoughts -

When you notice a headache coming on, you could take that as your bodies first indicator for hunger. As you start to feed yourself at the first sign of hunger that you recognize, you are encouraging your body to keep sending signals. The more you honor that first sign - headache - the more your body will re-tune itself to it's more subtle signals of hunger.

I had the same problem with feeling full - it took me some time to figure out when I was full and what a comfortable level fullness is.

Oh, maybe after you've eaten, you could take a minute to see if there was any small quiet signal your body sent out before the headache/naseau. It may take a while to notice and learn your body's cues, but it'll happen!!

Just my thoughts - you can hit delete key if they don't seem helpful

Kim

IE since Aug 08

Subject: HELP! NO hunger sensation at all...To: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 12:21 AM

I dont seem to get physcially hungry.I think I have NOT listend to my bodyfor SO long that the hunger sensation isGONE.The only way I know about physical hunger is IF I get a headache and or nauseous from NOT eating.Does anyone else have this issue?I literally could GO all day without eating but by late afternoon I WANT to eat.I am also a night eater...I was trying to eat every 3 hours before I tried this eat only eating when I am hungryand then I have nausea and headaches.HELP in AZ

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the kind words, Kim

I just get impatient and upset

WAITING to feel hunger and at

night I WANT TO eat sometimes

out of impatience and frustration for

waiting and NOT feeling hungry!!!!

Waiting to feel hunger doesnt bother me as

much during the day as long as I stay away from

kitchen

I even went to a potluck yesterday and didnt

eat anything cause I wasnt hungry

sure helped that I didnt really want anything

that was there!

ha ha

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> Subject: HELP! NO hunger sensation at

all...

> To: IntuitiveEating_Support

> Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 12:21 AM

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> I dont seem to get physcially hungry.

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> I think I have NOT listend to my body

> for SO long that the hunger sensation is

> GONE.

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> The only way I know about physical hunger is

> IF I get a headache and or nauseous from

> NOT eating.

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> Does anyone else have this issue?

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> I literally could GO all day without eating but

> by late afternoon I WANT to eat.

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> I am also a night eater...

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> I was trying to eat every 3 hours before I

> tried this eat only eating when I am hungry

> and then I have nausea and headaches.

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> HELP

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> in AZ

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[Guest guest]

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Your physical hunger signals may have stopped or be very subtle...with

time, attention, and a desire for your hunger signals to come back

regularly...they will. I used to brag about the fact that I could go

most of the day without eating anything and I believe that how I was

then prevented me from acknowledging or even feeling my physical

hunger signals.

I found that when I eat later in the evening...like 10 p.m. or later,

I wouldn't get hunger signals to after noon...usually around 2 p.m. My

night time eating isn't usually for true hunger (i.e., because my body

needs food energy)...it's usually emotional/physiological

(boredom/wanting to distract myself, being tired and responding to my

exhaustion with food instead of sleep:), wanting to numb out). What

makes you a night eater? How late are you eating at night?

Moving (i.e., exercising) in the morning helped modify the regularity

of my hunger signals. When I move in the morning, I usually get hungry

around 8 a.m. or not until 9 or 10 if I don't move in the morning. My

first sense of hunger in the morning, how much I eat to respond to it,

and how much I move/work afterward then helps determine the next time

I get hungry...and so on and so forth. If you haven't already, take

some time to really track yourself during the day...see if you sense

any warmth or gnawing or gurgling in your stomach region during the

day and respond to that sense of hunger...then see how long it takes

to start getting those sensations again.

Latoya

Practicing IE since Jan 'O8

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> I dont seem to get physcially hungry.

>

> I think I have NOT listend to my body

> for SO long that the hunger sensation is

> GONE.

>

> The only way I know about physical hunger is

> IF I get a headache and or nauseous from

> NOT eating.

>

> Does anyone else have this issue?

>

> I literally could GO all day without eating but

> by late afternoon I WANT to eat.

>

> I am also a night eater...

>

> I was trying to eat every 3 hours before I

> tried this eat only eating when I am hungry

> and then I have nausea and headaches.

>

> HELP

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> in AZ

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