Rate Your Hunger For Mindful Eating: An Easy Tip For The Busy Woman

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I'm Master Trainer Charlie!

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Here at F3, we believe more in realistic eating and less about restrictive eating.  Because of this, let's discuss mindful eating and how it can be an excellent tool for achieving your fitness and health goals.

Let’s discuss rating our hunger and how this can help us achieve our goals.  

So, after practicing food journaling, your awareness of your eating habits becomes more noticeable. You can read my previous blog post on food journaling, which relates to mindful eating here. To reiterate my previous blog post, mindful eating is more about how we approach the eating experience and less about restrictive eating.

Paying attention to your hunger scale is the second area that helps with mindful eating. Specifically, noticing the difference between physical and emotional hunger (aka emotional eating) is essential. Check out my previous post on recognizing emotional and physical hunger cues here.

Before eating, ask yourself whether you're actually hungry.

Then, rate your hunger using a scale of 0 to 10, with zero being not hungry and 10 being ravenous. Say your number out loud or write it down before eating to help yourself confirm if this is how you genuinely feel, as a verbal repetition that helps provide confirmation (or disagreement) with your brain.

Notice any physical, mental, or emotional patterns. This step should become more easily discernible after a week of food journaling. Also, note when you last ate. This can help you determine if you need to adjust your meal/snack schedule if your hunger keeps hitting a 9 or 10 consistently after a certain point in time. 

Rating our hunger is another excellent tool for helping us better understand how we relate to food and eating. Coupled with food journaling, rating our hunger can help us achieve better results in the long term and create positive, healthy habits that complement our more nutritious lifestyle.

Stay tuned for more tips on practicing mindful eating and achieving your fitness and healthier lifestyle goals. 

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Your Master Trainer,

Charlie