Don't be afraid to feel hungry

Monday ended up being defined as the world day of fresh start, but in reality it doesn't work out very well.

Do you already get up in the morning anxious with what you will eat? Many people already start the day planning that it will be a fresh start, and that it will be circumvent hunger and lose weight.

We often hear these complaints from overweight people showing us how much food ends up serving another purpose that is not nourishing the body but nourishing the soul, the heart.

The food also has the connotation of affection: just remember our mother's food, grandma's cake, aunt's pudding, all lovingly prepared to make the family happy. There are many cultures that value the abundance of food, and happiness is stamped at parties, all eager to enjoy the best delicacies they have known since childhood.

Hunger turns into a big villain, or even her fear. What people don't realize is that there is a big difference between real hunger and the imaginary, that is, the desire to eat.

Have you ever stopped to evaluate this aspect in your life? The time has come and with a pencil and a notebook, let's start training perception about what you really feel.

Hunger is a nuisance that we feel, as if our belly had a large hole that we need to fill. THE hungry ends up settling due to anxiety about situations in your life, even situations you cannot predict.

Hunger is a physiological sensation that our body perceives when it needs food to maintain life's inherent activities. Appetite is the desire to eat a food. It is of fundamental importance to decipher what we really want. Do we want to eat out of hunger or desire to eat?

It sounds easy, but for many people these situations get mixed up, and in that situation they end up eating more and more food even without feeling hungry.

So let's start a new stage in this weight loss process, taking notes on everything you eat, and linking up with aspects of your life each time you abuse your food. By using your food intake note, you can identify what are the triggering factors for your desire to eat. You will learn to look at yourself, and develop strategies so that in those moments where hunger is not present, you can use other options to solve personal problems and even anxiety.

Anxiety is one of the great triggers of the urge to eat, and in the living wheel that is our life, we eventually discontinue our yearning to eat. By using the note, you will realize that you ended up eating more food at these times, because the tendency is to eat, eat and not being able to feel satiety.

In the therapeutic process the patient has the opportunity to identify the meaning of food abuse, being able to solve some situations more effectively, putting each need in the right place, and food can occupy only its nutritional role.

Eating for feelings prevents you from being able to reach your goal of losing weight, because we can not stay within the nutritional prescription, also sabotaging physical activity, because here we have an account of addition and subtraction, and we will use the one we have condition at the moment.

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