Unsafe at Any Size

Not my feet, not my scale, not my weight

The good news is I didn’t gain any weight this week. The bad news is, I didn’t lose any weight this week, either.

I certainly started the week in a good state of mind.  I am reading The Beck Diet Solution by Judith Beck.  If you can get past her writing about the Beck Diet Solution in every sentence, there is a lot here that is very useful.

This week, I was experimenting with being hungry.  In last week’s WW meeting, we discussed hunger and how you know you are hungry, and the difference between physical and emotional hunger.

Unfortunately, I’m not able to easily classify hunger as “real” or not.  When I get “really” hungry, I get anxious and cranky; so, when I get anxious and cranky, it’s hard to know if I’m actually hungry (i.e. really needing food) or just anxious and cranky.

I experimented a bit with letting myself be hungry and experiencing what that is like.  If I had recently eaten, I assumed I wasn’t “really” hungry.  I also didn’t try to dampen the sensation by chewing gum (much).

If I hadn’t eaten for more than a few hours, I assumed I was “really” hungry, but if it wasn’t a snack or meal time I let myself experience that, too, without stuffing it down with food.

I think I got increasingly anxious toward the end of the week with this little experiment, and started eating more.  This week I’ll experiment with the small meals method.