What are YOUR fullness signals?

[Guest guest]

Hello everybody.

As you know, I'm currently in the peace-with-food phase, so I'm eating a lot of

foods I had previously forbidden, and I - obviously - find myself eating huge

quantities of them. It's not bingeing, because I don't eat until painfully sick,

but I do eat quantities that would scare a " normal " person.

In the last few days I've been eating tons of bread (always loved it, but I

hadn't been eating it for years - unless its calories were counted), and today,

trying to get an objective idea about how much I was actually eating, I roughly

counted the calories of the foods I ate, late in the evening. I keep a " mixed "

diary, in which I record feelings as well as meals and hunger/satiety cues.

The total was (about) 5-6000.

I know it's a huge number, but my most terrible binges got as high as 15.000

calories. And in about A HOUR! These calories were actually spread in a day

(actually two big meals - breakfast and lunch - with some little snacks), so it

is quite a progress for me.

I'll get to the point: I am not stuffed, painful or sick, but I am quite full.

Many times, while eating, I thought, " Maybe I should stop here " , but then there

was always something I wanted to taste, and I tasted it, and kept eating.

I've made peace with food, I'm honoring my hunger and I'm experimenting with it,

seeing how long meals keep me sated and things like that, but I seem to have

problems with fullness.

So, my question is, how do you stop eating? What are your cues? How long did it

take for you to learn them?

Also, any advice about anything I've said would be greatly appreciated.

Love your being there,

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