How do you know when you are really hungry??

  • As I mentioned many times here, at 3FC, as I am addicted to food, I feel like eating 24/7. So I don’t really know when I am feeling hungry or if I just want to eat again.
    Before I started my eating plan I would eat all the time, even if just a bite of this or that...
    So, now that I am OP I can’t really figure out when I just want to eat or when I am really hungry... It is hard because I try ignore these feelings so I don't keep feeding myself, but I don’t want to miss out on the signs that my body is giving to me like when I am really hungry and need to get some food in.
    I was thinking that a good sign could be when my tummy starts to growls, but I read in some post once that even when it happens it doesn’t mean you are hungry and you have to eat right at that time. So, I have no clue how how to know when I am hungry and was wondering how the others chicks could figure that out
  • Sometimes it helps me to ask if I'd still eat if the only thing available was something not sweet or starchy (or whatever your comfort food is) and something I didn't even particularly like. If I really just want one particular thing, then it's taste hunger, not real physical hunger. If you have a particularly strong habit of just constantly eating, this might not work - you might be willing to eat anything just to eat.

    It's also something one person can't describe entirely for another. It will be experienced a little differently by everyone. And if you've ignored it a long time, or it's been obscured a long time by meds or disease or whatever, then you have to expect being "fluent in hunger" to take a little time and attention to develop.