Honoring Your Hunger

Principle #2 is to Honor Your Hunger. This principle entails keeping your body biologically fed with adequate energy and carbohydrates. If you tend to eat off of triggers other than your hunger you can trigger a primal drive to overeat. Learning how to honor this first biological signal sets the stage for rebuilding trust with yourself and food.

Tips for Honoring Your Hunger:

1. Begin to listen to the smallest noise or feeling that indicates you are experiencing hunger.
a. these include a growling or grumbling stomach, slight headache, lack of mental focus,
grouchiness and lack of energy

2. Take to time to eat as soon as recognize your hunger

3. Don't neglect your hunger signals this can lead to overeating. On a scale of 0 to 10 try
eating around a 3 or 4. A zero is when your stomach is completely empty, a 10 is when
your are stuffed to the max, therefore a four is about the time when you first start to
realize you are getting hungry

4. Many people state that they can go for hours without feeling hunger. You have specifically
trained your body to do this so now you have to untrain it. If this is you, start by eating on
a schedule, your body will learn this and then you will be able to recognize your hunger
cues.

5. Be prepared-make sure you are prepared for all kinds of situations.