THE SECRET THAT WILL SHIFT YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO HUNGER
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Do you ever feel like the survival, animal part of your brain is running the show around food?
Do you ever feel like if you don't eat STAT, it's a life and death emergency?
Our brains are wired to think when we have hunger and we must act on it.
Our brains are generally wired to eat food and eat as much as we can because anciently, we didn't know when our next meal was.
The challenge with this today is, that when we struggle with overeating, finding our next meal is usually not a problem nor is it usually an emergency.
THE SECRET THAT CAN SHIFT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HUNGER IS:
HUNGER SIGNALS ARE NOT ACTUALLY AN EMERGENCY.
The problem is that, when we struggle with overeating, our brains are often stuck in emergency brain "software" running in the background that is screaming to us, "hunger is an emergency, must feed now, or will die" and we try to avoid hunger at all costs.
It kind of feels like our monkey brain, survival brain, primitive brain is running the show, right?
The thing is, is when it comes to habitual overeating, hunger is not an emergency.
Yep. It's not.
Most of us have enough fat stores on our bodies that will keep us alive for many, many days.
But our brains often make us think that any hunger signal must be squelched immediately.
This is actually not true for most people (I know there are some out there with Diabetes or other conditions that have need food a bit more often this is not what I'm talking about).
This is just survival brain worried about when it's next meal is coming and thinking it won't be for days and days.
In addition, our brains have been conditioned by many angles by the very popular idea/philosophy in past years that "we need to eat every couple of hours", "we need to snack" to be well, to be healthy.
Think about this though, really?
Does that make logical sense?
If we were wired to be able to eat, store energy & fat and go many hours, sometimes even of days without food in past centuries, does it follow that eating every 3 or so hours, snacking and grazing all day would be in alignment with how our bodies are wired to function?
Why would our bodies be wired to be able to store fat and go longer periods without food if this were in alignment and our best interest.
Does it follow, does it make sense that this would help us lose weight by eating more and more often?
As one of my favorite comedians, Brian Regan, says, I submit that it cannot.
Current research is showing that we are gaining weight & the obesity in our American Culture is higher than it has been.
Not a shocker. This data is shared widely everywhere you look or listen.
While there are many factors to why we are over weight, obese and creating more Type 2 Diabetes, one of the big reasons is that we are eating too much, too often, and yes, the types of foods we eat will play a factor in this too. Because our brains and a lot of marketing and well-meaning parental instinct have conditioned us all to think hunger signals are an emergency.
It's simple math.
Eating too much + eating too often + types of food that whack out our hunger hormones (refined foods) = overweight.
This may seem over simplified for some, and that's OK.
I understand that there can be many factors.
AND
Sometimes this is what helps.
To just see "the math".
WHY OUR BRAINS THINK HUNGER SIGNALS
ARE AN EMERGENCY
One reason we do this is because our brains think that if we experience any hunger, it's an emergency, and for a lot of us, it can feel "uncomfortable" to experience hunger.
There are many reasons it can feel uncomfortable: when we are eating so much, we are often stuffing our feelings
AND we just haven't learned and trained our brains to know that hunger signals don't make us die.
They are just information.
We don't actually have to act on them.
We CAN observe the hunger.
True physical hunger signals come and go in waves.
When we have a true hunger signal, (grumbles in the tummy, we feel empty in our stomach-this is how most people experience it, not all, but most) it will come, if we just notice it without immediately feeding it, notice how long it lasts.
When we get busy and we have hunger signals, we can ignore them for a long time, right?
When you have a true hunger signal and aren't busy, you can still choose to drink water (often times when we think we are hungry (and it hasn't been 6 or so hours since we ate last) we are often thirsty, or feeling emotional hunger or crave hunger caused by our emotions.
What to do instead of eat when your brain says,
"YER GONNA DIE IF YOU DON'T EAT NOW!"
Always ask yourself before you eat: "Am I truly physically hungry?"
Wait, what? This is the your recommendation lady?
Yeah, seriously, how many of us really ask ourselves if we are truly physically hungry before we eat.
When was the last time you felt actual true physical hunger, remember? Can you?
Remember, you didn't die.
What if you could just start with this tool.
ALWAYS ASK YOURSELF IF YOU ARE TRULY PHYSICALLY HUNGRY BEFORE YOU EAT ANYTHING.
And if you are truly physically hungry, I invite you to just notice it it for 15-20 minutes.
Noticed how it feels.
Drink some water and watch how the hunger signals come and go.
Stop snacking.
Stop filling up at the first sense of a hunger signal.
Let yourself experience true physical hunger.
It actually helps you have more energy.
It helps you feel less sluggish because your body is not in a constant state of burning or trying to burn food.
It helps your body rest and lowers insulin which gives your system a much needed rest.
This little tool right here is one of the most simple secrets that will shift your relationship to hunger today.
I love you!
Candy
Candy Wright Burgoyne
Certified Life Coach, Emotional Healing Expert
Certified Weight-Loss Coach & Relationship Coach
**DISCLAIMER: I acknowledge and absolutely respect, that for some, they do not know when their next meal is, this is not what I'm talking about in this article. That is a completely separate issue, and one I care about.)
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