25: Your body’s built-in calorie calculator! Deep dive into hunger and fullness cues

If you’ve ever been on a diet before or had a disordered relationship with food, there’s a good chance that you’ve lost touch with your body’s built in calorie calculator…your hunger and fullness cues. You might wonder how some people can just leave a few bites on their plate without any thought. Or how they can turn down a donut offered to them at work because they “aren’t hungry.” Listen to this episode to learn the mechanisms behind hunger and fullness cues and just how brilliant your body is! There is so much magic that can happen when you re-connect with your body and re-learn how to be a “natural eater.” 

Dive into…

• Can you “mess up” your hunger/fullness cues with dieting?
• What to do instead of counting calories
• Can you have both food freedom AND a healthy weight?
• The mechanisms behind hunger and fullness cues
• How does your body calculate how much you’ve eaten?
• A deep dive into how hunger and fullness work in your body
• What happens if you eat when you’re not hungry?
• What happens if you ignore your hunger?
• Hacks to activate your fullness cues so you actually feel satisfied
• How the nervous system impacts hunger
• 9 things that get in the way of feeling your hunger/fullness cues
• Why I hate the advice of just “eat when you’re hungry, and stop when you’re full”

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Intro music created and produced by Wavesy!

Disclaimer: Nothing in this episode is to be taken as medical advice. Please speak to your own physician or functional medicine practitioner before making changes in your life.