Hunger

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Yes I am still working on this hunger thing. I seem to do okay with breakfast and usually lunch ...but things are different on weekends for me. I must be bored and the fact that I live between two homes makes it tough too.

Evenings are a bit of a challenge too although I am more aware and not binge eating as much

To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Wed, September 8, 2010 8:23:50 AMSubject: Hunger

This topic on hunger is interesting. I think of all the diets that tell us not to let ourselves get hungry. I can remember how I snacked all day long to make sure I never got hungry. After I started IE I realized that I was afraid to get hungry. Not sure to this day exactly why, but I keep relating back to the diet industry telling me not to get hungry. Now I treasure when I am hungry. And I know that if for some reason I am not able to eat right at that moment, the uncomfortable, hollow feeling will ease up. But I do try to keep a couple things on hand to hold me over until I can actually get a meal - fruit or a gluten free bar of some sort or a few nuts are my favorite choices.And it is interesting to me how some days I eat very little and others I feel like I don't stop eating - not because of a binge, but because I am actually hungry. A lot of it depends on how much I am moving. If I am moving more, usually the next day I tend to eat a bit

more.Alana(practicing IE for 3 1/2 years)> >> > This week I am  going to eat just enough to stay at the verge of being hungry. > > I want to sit with my hunger this week to see> > what it feels like and see if I can process some of the feelings and reasons why > > I need to over eat. What are the stories and justifications that I am telling > > myself? How many diets did I think about going on this weekend after each time > > I ate too much, sometimes more then 1 in a day. Need to stop the insanity and > > control myself and my emotions and not everything else in my life>

[Guest guest]

Hi Sunny, sorry if I didn't make myself clear - what I wrote wasn't meant as a

hunger scale, more a list of different types of what we perceive as 'hunger'. As

for a hunger scale, when I began IE I used a simpler one than the one in the IE

book. Instead of 10 levels - which I found too complicated - I found a 5 level

one that helped me get on my way with reacquainting myself with my own body

hunger/satisfied/full levels.

Remember that there are 'no rules', only suggestions and no matter what you do,

its not 'wrong', especially if you can learn from it! Dieting is about beating

oneself up over the littlest thing. IE is about learning from the littlest thing

;-)

BEST to you - ehugs, Katcha

IEing since March 2007

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> Thanks for that Katcha,

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> Using your Hunger scale I don't identify the type of hunger I have in the

evenings when i seem to graze mindlessly. I know Misplaced hunger from thirst

actual feels like body hunger physically. Emotional hunger doesn't. What I

normally experience seems more like a result of the Full scale you use. I seems

like I must rarely ever be satisfied because if satisfied is as you define it, I

rarely stop seeking food, unless I am full to uncomfortable and since I dislike

that feeling it I hardly ever get there. I do however, often decide with my

mind when enough is, because I can't trust my body to stop seeking food.

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> Sunny

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> Re: What kind of eater are you?

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> I found that there is several different kinds of 'hunger' -

> 1) body hunger - which is what we all were born with and are encouraged to

refer

> o (once again) by IE.

> 2) emotional hunger - which covers eating in anger, upset, guilt etc.

> 3) misplaced hunger - instead of thirst! Many foods do contain moisture which

> an be a reason one feels compelled to 'eat'.

> On the opposite end - there are different types of 'full'! -

> 1) satisfied - no craving, no longer seeking food

> 2) FULL - couldn't eat another bite if I tried

> 3) 'enough' - as judged by me, not my body

> Just some thoughts your post brought for me -

> Katcha

> Eimg since March 2007