the 0 - 5 food revelation

Hi All

I just thought I would share with you some facts on hunger, that I was reading on a website the other day (can't for the life of me find which one now). I guess I'm feeling guilty from eating chips and chocolate this morning (hard day at work) so I am repenting in the form of making others see the light.....

Hunger - Hunger is a physical pain or a feeling, not an urge or a craving. Telling the two apart is simple; after time a craving goes away. Hunger does not.

The 0 - 5 revelation.
on a scale of 0 to 10, how hungry/full are you right now? 0 being "I am actually dying of starvation", 3 being "on the edge of hunger", 5 being STAISFIED (take note of this one), 7 being "full" and 10 being "stuffed."

Theory is (from this website I can't find), that you should only eat when you are at 1, and stop at 5. SATISFIED is different from FULL. A food portion should be the size of your fist. Look at your fist bunched up. Are you thinking, "sureley I will keel over if I only eat that much!?" Well, your stomach, low and behold, is the size of your fist. So, you can eat and eat, but that stretches your stomach, meaning, you don't actually need that much.

SO, following this revelation - I have tried to eat to only 5, and eat when I am only 1. So far, so good.... if you count going from 1 to 5 in two packets of chippies and 2 chocolate bars. Whoops. What can I say, hard day at work today, I nearly did my rag at the computer several times.

Maybe this will challenge some people into eating more healthily and a bit less. The more I think about my stomach all stretched, the less I wonder why my pants button had the tendacy of popping off mid walk/sit/stretch/bend.

P.S My teeth are going great, thanks for asking :P