You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real and this is episode 18.

I'm your host, Master Weight Loss coach and author Cookie Rosenblum.

Welcome back. I am thrilled that you're here with me today. Let's get started with this

episode because I have a lot to share with you.

Today we're going to talk about how to deal with the most common situations we all face.

Situations like holidays, work events, parties, family time, travel, and more while you're working on losing weight.

Things that all involve food and eating and things that tend to throw you off track.

Now that is going to be a thing of the past because I'm going to coach you on a new way to look at these natural life events

and not let them derail you on your weight loss journey.

So first, let's do a quick review about how you're going to eat as you evolve into

eating like a naturally slim woman and of course please know that this applies to men too. And how you eat is basically

you're going to start eating when you're a little hungry and you're going to eat until you're lightly satisfied.

And if we think about it on that hunger scale that we talked about back in episode 3,

the hunger scale goes from minus 10 starving to plus 10 stuffed.

Zero in the middle is neutral.

And you're going to aim to eat when you're a little hungry minus 2 to a little full plus 2.

And if you need a refresher on that, go back and listen to episode 3 again.

But I want you to begin to think of it as your own internal thermostat, kind of like the

gas gauge for your car. You don't feel your car because the gas is on sale or because it's available in your driving past a filling station.

You fill your car because your gauge is showing that it's getting low.

So your hunger scale shows you that you're a little

empty or a little full. It tells you when to start eating and if you're listening to the signals from your body when to stop as well.

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