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Originally Posted by kaplods
Now there's probably conflicting research (and the best place to find it would probably be in any of the books written based on the mindful eating philosophy. And for folks, for home mindful eating works, that's fabulous. However, my attempts at mindful eating have failed miserably because I can't differentiate between true and false hunger (though I'm getting better at recognizing the extremes). Even though I'm less hungry on low-carb, I've even stalled on Atkins induction and South Beach Phase I. I NEED a portion-control element because I can't trust my hunger (especially my PMS/TOM hunger).
while everything you said resonates with me, this was particularly bell-ringing.
It's been my life-long norm to note my hunger like Kery says
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if I'm hungry, any food will seem appealing to me; whereas 'mind hunger' will translate only by things like "I want THAT specific food, and nothing else".
Cause yeah, when I'm REALLY hungry, I can find something to eat. If I'm not REALLY hungry, I want something very specific and usually it's not on my "list of approved dieting foods". Or else, I say "I'm really hungry, but I just don't know what I want to eat." If I'm PAYING ATTENTION, I can avoid crazy binges when those times hit me. But it seems they hit me when I'm in not-paying-attention mode.
So even tho that is my "norm", still sometimes, I just go off the binge-eating deep end. Even when I'm full & I know I'm full, there's "something" that pushes me to continue to eat. Not all the time. Not even most of the time. But SOMETIMES. And I have eaten that way all my life. I'm 49 years old, and still fighting with myself about "I know I shouldn't eat that, but just a little won't hurt me" and I can do that for months on end, then suddenly (it seems) "just a little" is never, never enough.
I believe the brain is more responsible for fatness & obesity than the stomach could ever imagine.