Ep. #93: The 3 Types of Hunger and How they Show Up in Weight Loss
Do you find yourself going off the rails at night and overeating?
This is probably just emotional hunger or habit hunger. We have been so disconnected from our body for so long, we don’t even know what hunger feels like in our body. We have built this wall of weight around ourselves. We think we are hungry, and we don’t realize we are full until we are full and overstuffed – like Thanksgiving stuffed.
Physical is the important hunger. It is when we are truly hungry, when our hormones tell us we are hungry. Ask yourself if a chicken breast would do, and if you can say yes, then you are physically hungry. If the answer is no, I want the chocolate chip cookie, then it is probably emotional hunger.
Emotional hunger is when we are pushing our feelings down with food. We tie events to food. Nighttime, weekends, celebrations. If I get upset with my husband, Paul, and I find myself in the pantry, that is just emotional hunger.
You can feel your feelings without acting on them.
Habit hunger are those habits we have tied to food – every day at 2 p.m. we eat a candy bar, that is just a habit. Ask yourself if you are truly hungry, and we get to decide which habit hungers we want to keep. Habits are just things we created neural pathways for in our brain that we have done over and over again.
Join me in this episode as we dive deep in the differences between physical, emotion, and habit hunger.
In today’s episode, you will discover:
- How to tell if your hunger is physical, emotional or habit
- Life is 50/50
- You get to decide which hunger habits you want to keep
Transformational questions:
- How does “habit” hunger show up?
- What habits do you want to continue?
- How can you allow yourself to feel a feeling without acting on it?
