As a baby, you knew when you were hungry, and you would cry to get fed. At what point did you stop eating when you were hungry?
Over your years on this planet you have been told so many “food rules”, you must eat breakfast, you must eat three meals a day, oh actually we got that all wrong, you must fast for 8 hours. It is so confusing to know what you should do when you listen to the advice of others.
When you were a baby, you asked for food when you were hungry. Here at OG, we ask you to reconnect back with this instinct. We invite you to reconnect with your real hunger and eat when you are hungry. It is time for you to find your bodies natural rhythm. Your body will tell you what it needs, and your job is to listen. Just like you did when you were a few days old.
So how do you do this?
1: Check your hunger
When you think you feel hungry, do a check. Is your body hungry, are you experiencing the habit of emotional hunger, or are you thirsty?
- Drink a glass of water, wait 5 minutes and check if you have confused hunger with thirst.
- Take stock of your feelings. Are you feeling rejected, fearful, angry, bored or lonely?
- If the first two checks don’t fit, then you are hungry. Take a moment to recognise exactly how this feels in your body so that you reconnect with the bodies signals.
2: Understand your levels of hunger and what is acceptable
To help his clients understand their hunger levels, Paul Mckenna uses the below “Hunger Scale.”
- 1: Physically faint
- 2: Ravenous
- 3: Fairly hungry
- 4: Slightly hungry
- 5: Neutral
- 6: Pleasantly satisfied
- 7: Full
- 8: Stuffed
- 9: Bloated
- 10: Nauseous
As you start the habit of eating every time you are hungry and stopping when you are full, we want you to become more aware of your hunger levels.
From now on you as part of the OG rules you will never let yourself feel;
- 1: Physically faint
- 2: Ravenous
- 8: Stuffed
- 9: Bloated
- 10: Nauseous
You are no longer going to starve your body. Starving your body slows down your metabolism and causes the body to hold on to fat. By eating when you are hungry, your body gets in the habit of knowing it can burn everything you eat. Now, of course, you need also to be eating the right kinds of food, but this will happen organically as you move through our programs.
