A long time ago (over a year... oh god a year and a half!?) I was struggling with my inner dictator - the one that tells me a diet is the only way to lose weight (must not eat bread... you know, that guy) - and I went on a coaching call. Corinne asked me if I was waiting for hunger to eat and I said Hell Yeah!! She then asked if I was stopping at enough. And I wasn’t as confident. She suggested THAT was my work. So, I’ve dropped the diet bullshit and I’ve been working on figuring out enough since then.

Fast forward to present times. I’ve gained some weight back. There’s not a lot of drama about it cause I know I haven’t been consistently doing the basics. I love myself as much as ever. Anyway...(making a long story longer - hah!) something struck me when we were going through basics 2.0. Corinne mentioned that ‘doable hunger’ didn’t roar at you. Doable hunger sounded more that Kathy instead of Corinne and a lightbulb went off!! I started tracking when I was eating. My accountability partner (my daughter) and I made a scale that made it fun - naming our hunger levels after each of the coaches. And you’ll hear us tell each other. Ooo waiting too long - I’m Corinne hungry right now... or I’m MJ hungry!

That’s when I realized I was still having some diet BS going on. You see I’m REALLY REALLY good at waiting for hungry. I mean, 35 years ago I was drinking bullion and diet tea for lunch to lose weight...10 years ago I went 8 months only eating 900 - 1200 calories a day. Add on top of that a little ADD and when my body ‘whispers’ it’s easy to forget to eat cause...something shiny! It has to roar at me to get me to put food in my face more than 1/2 the time. And when my body is roaring it makes finding enough harder... (not impossible...) my feast beast kicks in and says we need to eat cause there is no telling when this bitch is going to stop to eat again!!

So last night I made a goal to ‘find Kathy hunger and listen to it’ I’ve taken my urge jar and every time I eat within 15 minutes of the whisper, I get a rock...

This AM - I missed the whisper by about 40 minutes. Was at MJ hunger when I started to cook my breakfast. But even then I could tell the difference! I had put a pancake on my plan... but didn’t want to go through the trouble of fixing it. So I grabbed an English muffin. Then though hmmm may that’s not totally an equal swap...so I grabbed 1/2 of one instead. Then sat down to eat and 1/2 way through —- I lost interest in my food. Like I seriously looked down at my plate and went ... eh I totally don’t need the rest of this. Guys!! Before, finding ‘enough meant stopping when my body was still yelling at me and having to sit with hunger for about 10 minutes or so and seeing if it went away...this was such a different experience!

I can’t wait to see what the rest of this week’s experiment shows me!!!

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