controlling hunger with distractions

[Guest guest]

I've noticed that I can have pretty severe hunger pangs, but if I get

interested in something besides eating that it gets " submerged " . For

example, I was very hungry about an hour ago, but sat down at the computer

to do some work. It was not til later that I realized I was able to

completely forget about my hunger and instead had been concentrating on the

task I was doing at the computer.

Of course this only goes so far and if one goes long enough without eating,

the hunger eventually takes over . But it's a tool that I don't use often

enough and need to remember to keep in my arsenal of weapons to defeat

hunger for a couple of hours at a time.