Good hunger, as opposed to lousy hunger, is the key to healing food anxiety.
Best of all, when you decide to tackle food anxiety …
Specifically, by learning to overcome food struggles with the power of your hunger, here are some of the benefits:
- Learning how to naturally NOT overeat
- Learning how to naturally NOT let yourself get depleted (and then binge eat)
- Being able to trust your body and not constantly worrying about whether you are over your limit
As you’ll see below, especially if you have food anxiety, the key is changing how you perceive your hunger and then relating to your body in a new way.
Now … how do you start healing food anxiety with hunger?
The 1st step you can take is listening to your hunger...
This could mean listening to the inner signals like:
- 1—Starving, weak, dizzy
- 2—Ravenous, cranky, low energy, lots of stomach growling
- 3—Pretty hungry; the stomach is growling a little
- 4—Starting to feel a little hungry
- 5—Satisfied, neither hungry nor full
- 6—A little full, pleasantly full
- 7—A little uncomfortable
- 8—Feeling stuffed
- 9—Very uncomfortable, stomach hurts
- 10—So full you feel sick
A rating of 1-10 can be helpful. You may read the University of Wisconsin article for more information on hunger scales.
But to heal food anxiety, you must use these sensations to understand your ‘unique’ hungry voice.’
The key is to realize that you have a unique inner hunger voice that gives increasingly coherent messages as you learn to decipher your stomach’s language.
For example, your hungry voice might say, “Please,” Stop,” When, “you feel signals that you are overeating—like feeling bloated, stretched, too full, and so forth.
The key is to realize your belly has a voice, and it’s sitting to you!
Trust me, I know this sounds silly, but in Weight Loss Enlightenment, we realize that the traditional way of seeing things is too simple! And we need to wake up!
We need to get some insight into the nature of our bellies!
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One man’s money to heal food anxiety I’ve
I’ve been working with a guy who has struggled with food his entire life.
From binge eating to feeling hopeless to countless diets to doctors to family struggles due to health, to …
You name it; he’s experienced it. Ouch.
And the beautiful thing, the wonderful thing to see and witness …
This man is lovely to his hunger. As he listens to his hunger, he gains more confidence in his understanding of it.
Forget for a moment weight loss. This guy and I have agreed that his journey will go like this:
- Listen to hunger
- Learn what hunger is saying
- Then, focus on listening to the subtle messages of hunger that tell you to eat healthy.
- Weight loss results naturally as a byproduct
This man is now just concentrating and learning to listen to his hunger.He’ssnHe’sushingg the process.
Every time he eats, he has a chance to learn the language of his body.
Instead of seeing hunger as some demonic force controlling you, please make this shift, even though it might be scary:
Your hunger is more like a foreign language than a demonic disorder.
However, …
If you have dieted many times and have food anxiety, you may not hear your hunger hunger’s in the beginning.
This is honestly really sad to me.
This one hits me hard. For some reason, it just hits me hard.
I know some people who can’t come when they are hungry.
Only when they are RAVENOUS are they able to notice they are hungry?
My friends and I have talked about this. Does she openly admit it? o not knowing her and hunger cues about
I don’t. For some reason, this makes me sad.
Something so primal, like breathing or seeing, not being able to do that …
Nowit’ssit’ss you can’t can your hunger.
You can learn.
If you can’t, can your hunger …
One guideline to start is to eat every 3-4 hours.
That way, you have a baseline to know what you should eat and what food.
So instead of trying to guess but feeling incredibly frustrated because you can’t get your signals …
Go every 3-5 hours, and practice listening between meals. Eat protein, too!
Now, listen to your hunger.
Also, I don’t think hunger is the bad guy; that will only increase anxiety!
If you tHungerunger I, lousy, lousy guy …
Then you will buy:
- Caffeine pills that supposedly energize you and reduce your hunger
- Various meal programs like Jenny Craig (where they send all the food to you)
But mainly …
If you think hunger is the bad guy …
I don’t think you can heal from your food anxiety…
Because hunger is your own, it is a guide to health.
Over the past few days, we have been talking about protein.
And particularly …
How much is too much versus enough?
And we concluded … (or at least I concluded; don’t do about you 😉
The right amount of protein depends on you.
Instead of there, use the right amount of grams and macros and get the perfect ratio …
What if you started learning to listen to your deeply
Listen to your body for deep eating movements, particularly your hunger cues.
See…
The Just Do It Diet Industry …
They want you to fear your hunger (so they can make a quick buck off you)
But in Weight Loss Enlightenment, we realize:
Hunger is our inner guide to health, and we must take action, ion with hunger.
Your hunger has evolved over billions of years.
And guess what, too? Your hunger is what makes food satisfying.
Your hunger constantly gives you wisdom (rumble … rumble .. gurgle …)
And your hunger is not only the key to protein …
It’s crucial to health.
Your hunger is your direct link to your body’s body, and you can be healthy at any size.
And in Weight Loss Enlightenment, we realize …
Our body is intrinsically wise.
Your body is intrinsically wise.
Hunger is a Fundamental Truth.
Besides, you can’t can’t hunger.
Although technically speaking, you can accidentally ignore it when stressed out.
You don’t have to think about hunger to feel it.
It’s there—all the time. And your hunger is the key to losing weight.
Trust me—I know this might sound wild…
But being afraid of your hunger is not good either.
Let’swiLet’swilLet’sfightarn to listen to its limits!
