Ryan and I were chatting after dinner tonight about a few things on this new lifestyle change. He mentioned how his doctor said that usually when you're hungry and you start eating it takes about 10 minutes for your brain to recognize that it's getting food, granted, the time on this could be different for everyone.
We figured out that tonight my brain takes a bit longer to realize that it's getting food then his does. He pointed out a few cases of when we'd go out to eat. Here's one.
As we drove to Wyoming for Christmas I brought a bag load of granola bars, fiber one bars, pistachios, and those cheese crackers with PB in the middle. Everyone once in a while Ryan would say he was hungry and I'd get him a granola bar, and then he'd be good for a while.
Me? When I got hungry, I ate a handful of pistachios, a few cracker...things, a couple granola bars and I'd still feel hungry, so I'd continue eating until I was full. But, then I'd get sick because my brain finally realized it was way beyond full after stuffing my face with whatever I could in order to curb my hunger.
I found this quite interesting, and started noticing the times in my life where I was ravenously hungry and then stuffed my face with as much food as possible to stop the pain. It would have been better if I had eaten something and then waited until my brain realized that my body got food.
I think now I'll be able to recognize these moments and instead of stuffing my face, I'll eat something normal and healthy, and drink lots of water, and then wait. It'll all be well.
I love these kind of moments of realization. Don't you?!
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Oh Shannon, could it be that anytime I feel any pain in any way I reach for food? My brain says I'm hungry when I get let down at the place where my entire day is spent. I feel your pain....I think I'm hungry.
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