Are you eating to feed your body or because you’re stressed, tired, bored, or lonely? When used properly, the Hunger Scale allows you to get feedback from your body so that you know when to stop eating. Ideally you’ll put down the fork when you feel Comfortable or Perfectly Comfortable.
10. Stuffed: You are so full, you feel nauseous.
9. Very uncomfortably full: You need to loosen your clothes.
8. Uncomfortably full: You feel bloated.
7. Full: You feel a little bit uncomfortable.
6. Perfectly comfortable: You feel satisfied.
5. Comfortable: You’re more or less satisfied, but could eat a little more.
4. Slightly uncomfortable: You’re just beginning to feel signs of hunger.
3. Uncomfortable: Your stomach is rumbling.
2. Very uncomfortable: You feel irritable and unable to concentrate.
1. Weak and light-headed: Your stomach acid is churning.
Blatantly stolen from: Prevention.com
I have actually been hungry a couple times lately. I see it as a good sign. Since I caught that parasite I have mostly been eating because I have to eat, not because I’ve been hungry. The older I get the less I eat at one time. If I reach the perfectly comfortable state (#6) I will likely be very uncomfortable in 30 minutes to an hour reaching #12. I try to stop when I still want more and have more in a couple hours. And, of course, I eat more for stress, comfort, etc. than for hunger anyway.
By: adamswife on November 28, 2007
at 4:40 pm
That should be reaching #10. Ooops!
By: adamswife on November 28, 2007
at 4:41 pm
You must’ve been real darn hungry!
By: Zazzy on November 28, 2007
at 11:29 pm
I tend to eat when I hit #2 or #3 sometimes #1 … but often when I eat something I like a lot I hit #7-10 though I am trying to avoid that these days
Though often I have a hard time making myself eat all the way to #6 since the food is often not really what I or my body wants.
By: TheDarkWraith on November 29, 2007
at 1:20 am