Secrets of your appetite: Part 1-low blood glucose level

Today I’m going to uncover the first of four reasons we feel the urge to eat.  I will teach you a little about how to use this knowledge to comfortably eat less food for the rest of your life. And eating less is the foundation for weighing less and feeling great. This is NOT a how-to-give-yourself-anorexia. It is so far from that. This is a how-to-eat guide, not a how-to-restrict guide. No one focuses on the eating part of nutrition, we always focus so much on what we are eating, but it is so essential to success and my favorite topic...

Virtually all the reasons you eat can be put into 4 categories. Today, we will talk about how drops in energy supply make you want to eat. Over the next 3 episodes, we will cover how stomach pressure, sensory cues and lastly, learned cues/habits work with our appetite...

Before we dive into this framework today, it is really helpful to appreciate that understanding why you want to eat is a lot like learning why an infant is crying. What do they do when they poop? They cry. What do they do when they are hungry? They cry! What do they do when they are cold? They cry. What do they do when they are in pain? They cry. You get my point. Basically, they don’t tell you what the need is, they just that there is a need. That is your appetite...

At the center of the human appetite is the need to feel good. Learning to identify and grow that feeling can address so much more than food needs. And yet, food is the most frequent opportunity you have to connect with these needs and learn to care for them. Learn how nutritious foods actually give us lots of pleasure here.