Re: Hunger scales

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Hi,

your email really does a great job of showing how differing experts do give differing advice about this issue. Wow, there's really not just one perfect answer! Sue and others also pointed this out.

And my being an opinionated stubborn Italian really didn't help me to see it this morning!!

Sorry if I offended anyone because I know my opinions in this morning's emails were pretty strong.

But thanks all for illustrating how subjective this eating when hungry/stopping when just full-satiated is.

Maybe we do have to experiment and each come up with what feels good and works for each of us. As I said a couple times, i like the "be your own guru" idea.

Just for me I like to eat at the point that's just a little beyond the first hunger signal but not at the point of, "I'm famished/I'm starving/this feels awful!" and I guess I don't know when I prefer to stop; is just satiated when I first feel the food or is it before? I really don't know.

I'm looking in the IE book by Tribole and Elyse Resch and don't worry I won't quote from it, lol, but I do notice they recommend comfortable satiety. What's that mean? They say it is several things;

a subtle feeling of stomach fullness

feeling satisfied and content

nothingness-neither hungry nor full

Well, I think again that we'll each have to decide what this point is for ourselves; it is truly still subjective, even after reading the book :.)

We can experiment with different starting and stopping points to see what works best and maybe it will differ from time to time.

Thanks for all the great emails,

Laurie

To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Mon, December 7, 2009 6:56:04 PMSubject: Hunger scales

I recently read "7 Secrets of Thin People". They mention a 2-5 scale. Eat at a two and stop at a five. They describe the five as being not hungry, not full, comfortable, and can't feel food in your stomach. Back several years ago, when I was really trying to find my way with this stuff, I was eating until the hunger was gone and stopped. I ended up going to a nutritionist that said I was only eating to a neutral point if I eat to the place of no longer feeling hungry and that I needed to eat to the point where I feel food in my stomach. I was needing to eat probably every two hours and she was saying that I need to eat more and be able to go longer during meals. I had gotten a little obsessive about eating to no longer feeling hunger, and was anxious about eating to feeling the food in my stomach. So today I still have some questions about that...eat til feel the food, eat til the hunger isn't there. Not really sure.