Re: Principle #2 - Honor Your Hunger

[Guest guest]

This is exactly what nutritionist (who handed me an IE book) told me. I was

amazed that she wanted me to eat more, not less, carbs and fat. No more do I

take sugar-free yogurt and carrot sticks for lunch. On work days when I can't go

and get something to eat if I get hungry, I make sure I have at least the

suggested amount of carbs, fats, and proteins in my breakfast and lunch. Now

that I'm eating MORE for breakfast and lunch and having a snack to boot, the

urge to rush out of my workplace and devour a bag of chocolate or half a cake

has vanished.

I was reaching that point of triggering my primal drive to overeat every day,

and thought I just had no willpower. What a relief!

Sara

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> Keep your body fed biologically with adequate energy and carbohydrates.

Otherwise, you can trigger a primal drive to overeat. Once you reach the moment

of excessive hunger, all intentions of moderate, conscious eating are fleeting

and irrelevant. Learning to honor this first biological signal sets the stage

for rebuilding trust with yourself and food.

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[Guest guest]

This principle has really been the starting place for me, and came somewhat as a

revelation, as I have traditionally done a lot of eating when I wasn't hungry.

Of course I had always always sought to eat when I was hungry, but so many times

I kept eating, or snacked on things when I wasn't hungry, because they were

offered to me, or available, or I was craving something.

But this is so a basic tenet of self-care, and I can ask myself if I am hungry,

and I have become aware of different degrees of hunger. Like right now, at 8 in

the morning, I'm just a little bit hungry. I could eat breakfast now, or I

could wait for my partner to get up, and eat breakfast with him. There is also

an art project I'd like to work on, and I really would like to clean up my

study, so I'll probably choose to do one of those two things, especially since

if I ate now, that's probably what I'd be thinking about anyway.

But I really like this focusing on why we eat--it's something I've been asking

myself as well, but when we answe it, we cn always choose to eat anyway, even if

the answer isn't hunger. Yesterday at an all-day art show (my first one), I

asked myself the question, and the answer was " because I'm bored, and the

artists's kitchen is right near my booth, and easy to get to, and it gives me a

chance to get up and do something. " . Perhaps not the best reasons in the world,

but there they were. At least I was aware of it. I didn't eat the sandwich I'd

brought, or have dinner when I got home, because I wasn't hungry and didn't have

any other reason to eat....

Tilley

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> > Keep your body fed biologically with adequate energy and carbohydrates.

Otherwise, you can trigger a primal drive to overeat. Once you reach the moment

of excessive hunger, all intentions of moderate, conscious eating are fleeting

and irrelevant. Learning to honor this first biological signal sets the stage

for rebuilding trust with yourself and food.

> >

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[Guest guest]

This principle has really been the starting place for me, and came somewhat as a

revelation, as I have traditionally done a lot of eating when I wasn't hungry.

Of course I had always always sought to eat when I was hungry, but so many times

I kept eating, or snacked on things when I wasn't hungry, because they were

offered to me, or available, or I was craving something.

But this is so a basic tenet of self-care, and I can ask myself if I am hungry,

and I have become aware of different degrees of hunger. Like right now, at 8 in

the morning, I'm just a little bit hungry. I could eat breakfast now, or I

could wait for my partner to get up, and eat breakfast with him. There is also

an art project I'd like to work on, and I really would like to clean up my

study, so I'll probably choose to do one of those two things, especially since

if I ate now, that's probably what I'd be thinking about anyway.

But I really like this focusing on why we eat--it's something I've been asking

myself as well, but when we answe it, we cn always choose to eat anyway, even if

the answer isn't hunger. Yesterday at an all-day art show (my first one), I

asked myself the question, and the answer was " because I'm bored, and the

artists's kitchen is right near my booth, and easy to get to, and it gives me a

chance to get up and do something. " . Perhaps not the best reasons in the world,

but there they were. At least I was aware of it. I didn't eat the sandwich I'd

brought, or have dinner when I got home, because I wasn't hungry and didn't have

any other reason to eat....

Tilley

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> > Keep your body fed biologically with adequate energy and carbohydrates.

Otherwise, you can trigger a primal drive to overeat. Once you reach the moment

of excessive hunger, all intentions of moderate, conscious eating are fleeting

and irrelevant. Learning to honor this first biological signal sets the stage

for rebuilding trust with yourself and food.

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