How did/do you cope with "head hunger?"

[Blund 0]

I'm beginning to have issues with this now. I'm one of us who rarely feels hungry....its now one of my "goals"....to have hunger pains BEFORE eating! What a concept!!

I was just looking for others' experiences with managing this.

Thanks, Barb

[slimmy120 2]

Jack I loved your comments, all very true and motivational, this is why i come to these boards to here the truth from the people who arein the same shoes or who have come further than me towards their goals.Thanx.

[Blund 0]

I agree. Thanks Jack. I think I'll print that post.

I sometimes go for food when my kids stress me out, which is often! I'm trying to change that habit. I either resist, or go for a glass of Water or some raw veggies instead of a marshmello or a hunk of sharp cheddar cheese!! I should try jumping on my stair stepper! Its so hard sometimes to stop eating when something tastes so good! I'll get that full feeling from my band and be sad that I shouldn't have more. "Shouldn't" not "can't" because I have gone past that point a few times.....resulting in a run for the toilet!

Sometimes, I wish our food DIDN'T taste so good!!!

-Barb

[Blund 0]

I think this must be Banster Hell!

[mzreeda 1]

Application of any of a number of self-motivating ideas and behavioral changes. Read stuff. Rededicate yourself daily to your goal. Focus on activities rather than eating.

Train yourself on the difference between 'full' and 'hungry'.

Train yourself to recognize the pleasant stages of approaching hunger, and learn the satisfaction of 'eating to live' rather than 'living to eat'.

Short list: Don't eat if you're not hungry; STOP eating the very moment you no longer ARE hungry. That means in 1 or 2 bites sometimes. And sometimes spit out what's in your mouth.

Another way of thinking of it: physical hunger is satisfied by eating.

If you can recognize 'physical hunger', then any eating not reducing that physical hunger is NOT because your body is hungry.

cheers on your journey

thanks jack !!!