Lightbulb moment
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, 12-01-2017 at 02:46 PM (2038 Views)
I've been struggling lately, after my recent blog posts anyone who's read them will know I've been scratching my head as to where I'm going wrong.
Last night I was looking for recipes, menu ideas, that kind of thing when I came across a thread from a long time ago where the poster talked of being very hungry all the time. "That's just like me" I thought. I have been grazing a lot and the reason I've been grazing is because I never felt full and felt hungry all the darn time. I'd actually started to wonder if I was pregnant because I was hungry every hour.
In the old thread I was reading, someone suggested that there was no way the OP should be feeling hunger pains so soon after surgery and it was likely just heartburn or acid stomach. Well I thought, maybe that's me too? So this morning as usual I was feeling ravenous. Normally I'd have a couple of spoonfuls of cottage cheese to stop the hunger feelings, this morning instead I took a pepcid. Voila! The hunger pangs went away.
I've struggled with recognizing what hunger feels like for a while. When I say that I mean I know what hunger feels like, but I find it hard to differentiate it from other feelings. Hunger also feels like fear. My dad was this way too, stomach growling equaled fear. In the past I'd become frightened of hunger, because it was frightening! I was eating to ensure I didn't feel hungry a lot of the time.
Anyway hopefully this is going to help me change where I've been going wrong. Basically, more pepcid, less feeding the fear.
I feel like I've made zero sense.