3312: Learn How to Tune in to Your Hunger and Fullness Cues by Crystal Karges on Intuitive Eating

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🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3312: Crystal Karges explores how dieting and food restriction can disrupt our natural hunger and fullness cues, comparing our bodies to a car with broken gauges. She explains how reconnecting with mindfulness, pleasure, and intuitive awareness can restore trust in your body and transform your relationship with food. By learning to tune back into these internal signals, you can experience greater freedom, satisfaction, and peace in the way you eat. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.crystalkarges.com/blog/learn-how-to-tune-in-to-your-hunger-and-fullness-cues Quotes to ponder: “Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” “We are innately born with natural hunger and fullness cues that help our body gauge exactly how much we need to eat in order to stay well and thrive.” “Awareness is the first step toward change.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Health Daily. Learn how to tune in to your hunger and fullness cues by Crystal Cargis
0:07.3	of Crystalcargis.com. And I'm Dr. Neil Malick. Hey there, happy Monday and welcome back to Optimal
0:13.9	Health Daily, where I act as your narrator of the best health and fitness blogs, all for free.
0:19.6	And always with a bit of my commentary at the end.
0:22.3	Now, we have a bunch of shows covering a lot of different topics. Just search for optimal living
0:27.8	daily in any podcast app to find them. And with that, let's get right to it and start optimizing
0:34.3	your life. Learn how to tune in to your life.
0:42.8	Learn how to tune in to your hunger and fullness cues by Crystal Cargis of Crystalcargis.com.
0:47.6	Quote,
0:48.8	Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking
0:51.9	if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
0:57.1	Voltaire.
0:58.4	My sophomore year in college, my grandparents were kind enough to give me their old Ford Taurus to drive.
1:05.4	Now, as a poor college student with very little resources, this was a gift from heaven.
1:13.0	No more taking the campus shuttle around town or begging for rides. I had officially moved up a level. I called this car
1:19.2	old blue, and for good reason too. It had the classic crank windows and cassette player,
1:25.2	and unfortunately for me, the electrical system was a bit
1:29.3	unreliable. Every so often, one of the gauges would stop working, which wasn't the safest way to
1:35.4	drive, but nevertheless, I was happy to have a car to get me to my destination. One weekend,
1:42.4	my sister and I were driving home from school in Old Blue through the
1:46.2	most torrential downpour southern California has ever seen. We were in the thick of Los Angeles
1:51.8	traffic when the windshield wipers decided to stop working. We began to panic, wondering how we
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