me too! good for you for recognizing this. nice job!

I had a great time learning about healthy eats and gauging satiety when I did SCBR (check out my category – http://thechiclife.com/category/scbr ) – good stuff!

Nice work!

I try to eat when I’m hungry and until Im full. As part of SCBR (check out my SCBR Category for details), I gauged my fullness, which was a great exercise in intuitive eating. I try to eat as clean as possible because I think your body is best filled with whole foods – that’s when I think your satiety gauge is really spot on.

Typically, I eat pretty small portions…not on purpose, but just because that’s the way I end up eating. I eat small amounts in one sitting but can get hungry quickly. I try to fill in the hunger with clean snacks.

I also allow myself to indulge. If I tell myself I can’t have something, I only want it more. If I just go ahead and have it, I usually end up eating less of it in the long wrong, plus I save myself sanity by not guilting myself or thinking negative things. I enjoy every moment of my indulgent eating. But, I also really love my clean eating, too. I think it’s all about balance.

The hunger cues are a really tricky thing. I try not to let myself get too hungry – once I get to a certain point of hungriness, I start eating to stop the hunger but generally don’t stop once I’m adequately full – it’s like I’m overcompensating. Because of that I try not to let myself get past say, a 3 on a 1-10 hunger scale.