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Entitlement and True Hunger Did you know that you are entitled to eat whatever you want in front of anyone REGARDLESS of your body size? You many not feel entitled to eat comfortably until you have reached your desired body weight. You might even be afraid people will judge you when they see you eat and think that you shouldn't be eating because you are so overweight. This lack of entitlement MAKES you fat! If you eat and no one sees you eat, it really didn't happen, right? It is a way for you to hide from yourself and everyone else. Doing this forces you to eat in secret. Here is the truth about normal eaters: Normal eaters eat whenever they want in front of anyone. For you to become a normal eater, you must do the same. Take your entitlement back! Do you feel entitled to go to the bathroom whenever your body says so? It is the same thing. Which brings us to another point: You can't give up eating to be slim. In fact you are going to have to really eat to lose that excess weight permanently. Everyone who follows The Living Well Plan knows this to be true. To lose, you need to eat! Follow these simple steps to help overcome any problems you are having with feeling entitled to eat in front of others:
If any of you reading this are like me, eating only when you are truly hungry might be a new concept. Before eating the Living Well way, I ate when I thought I was hungry, when I wasn't hungry, and even when I had a stomach full of food. So how can you tell when you are dealing with true hunger? Here are some signs of true hunger:
The best reason to wait until you are truly hungry to eat is because that is the time when the food tastes the best and gives you the most pleasure. So waiting until you are truly hungry to eat the Living Well way not only gives you pleasure, but also gives you pleasure while you eat the most nourishing foods possible. You will begin to associate pleasure with eating nourishing foods and this positive association makes the plan a breeze. BUT! Do not go beyond the truly hungry point. Eat when you feel the first sign of true hunger. If you wait and let that first sign pass, you might not feel it again for a while. Then when you feel it again, you are beyond true hunger and have entered into 'absolutely starved'. When you reached the absolutely starved point, you will overeat because you will be too hungry to care what or how much you eat. Listening to your body is key. When you put more gas in your car than will fit into the gas tank, it will spill out and run on the ground. When you put more food in your body than it wants, it runs out onto your hips, thighs, stomach, etc. etc. : ) Too bad the stomach is not just one size like the gas tank of a car! The stomach can stretch to hold the excess, but it will also let you know when you have overeaten by making it painful. So remember, getting too hungry is painful and overeating is painful. Keeping it pleasurable is key!
CHET DAY'S DAILY HEALTH TIP Josh Day, Editor
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