Sun, Dec 04 2005

Having Our Cake, But Only When We're Hungry

It seems like only common sense to eat when hungry, but maybe we've been doing something else. Eating what he wants and eating only when hungry seems to have done the trick for at least one man. I do know that a lot of people struggle to know when they are physically hungry and they also struggle to know when they are full. I confess that I've eaten, at times, to the point where feeling "full" meant feeled overly-stuffed. I'm thinking that many of us have spent so many years believing that full means stuffed that we have a hard time knowing what full is actually supposed to feel like. It's simply easier to recognize that overly-stuffed feeling than to aim for something between empty and stuffed.

Tuning into one's own body works well for so many things. I guess we're all just focused on so many other tasks and activities that we don't take time to take care of ourselves this way. Tuning in becomes especially important at holiday time, when every doorway one steps through seems to lead to snacks and goodie plates and whole buffets laid out with every kind of treat there is. I usually lose weight during the holidays because there is so much everywhere that I get overwhelmed and can't decide what, or how much, to eat. So there may be something to this Intuitive Eating philosophy, if it means that embracing abundance can result in reasonable choices.

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