Discover Your Stomach Signals (Jan 2007)

As the New Year has approached us, I like to suggest to my client’s reasonable goals that they may set for themselves instead of creating rigid food rules. Unfortunately just telling yourself to eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full is not that helpful. “Appetite Monitoring” would be a more efficient approach than food monitoring.

Food monitoring is often used as a weight loss strategy, but appetite monitoring is more effective in getting one to focus on what is happening when you eat. This shifts from the focus of what foods you should or shouldn’t eat.

Appetite ratings or levels are based on how you feel, so there is no right or wrong way of doing this as this may feel different at first. This approach will help one get on the normal eating path, regardless of why you have been having difficulties with food.