Are you Hungry for Food?

By

Deborah Ferris, Certified Hypnotherapist (519) 688-9282 Tillsonburg

Ask yourself this question before you eat – Am I hungry for food? Check to see if you are really physically hungry. If you aren’t physically hungry (and if you have eaten 3 healthy meals and a couple of small snacks then you probably aren’t hungry), then you are hungry for some other kind of nourishment and you have gotten into a habit of eating.

Food can temporarily comfort us but it doesn’t satisfy our emotional or spiritual needs in the long run. Often we feel worse when we overeat and certainly unfulfilled.

So what are you hungry for?

You probably need some support, comfort or even cherishing and none of these comes in a box or a bag of food.

What really nourishes you?

You need to listen to yourself to find out what you need. Do you require attention or love? Maybe you are tired and taking a nap or going to bed earlier will help.

Here’s a short list of some other healthy ways that you could nourish yourself:

• A bubble bath
• Sitting for a half-hour doing nothing (no reading or watching TV)
• Going for a walk in nature, noticing the natural beauty around you
• Meditating or praying

It can take time and patience to come up with a list of how you can nourish yourself if you have been overeating for years.

Keep asking yourself what do I really want? what do I really need? If I’m not hungry for food, what am I hungry for? What am I in need of that will nourish me as a person at all levels of my being? Keep asking and listening and the answers will come. Go ahead and make your own list of how you can nourish yourself and then just do it/act it out and you’ll see success!

List of Ways that I can Truly Nourish Myself

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