You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real, and this is episode 82.

I'm your host, master Weight Loss Coach and author Cookie Rosenblum. Today and every Tuesday

I'm going to coach you and teach you how to end your emotional leading at a bust through those urges to binge and how to leave all

your overeating habits in the past. So if you just found me, welcome my friend and

if you're a regular listener, welcome back. I appreciate that you're here.

Today we're going to talk about hunger and fullness, in particular fullness, so get comfortable and get ready to be coached and let's dive in.

Now one of the foundations of everything I teach is learning how to eat naturally and by

naturally I mean learning how to eat just like you did when you were a child. You didn't really think about food all day long unless you were

conditioned to, but from birth you most likely wanted to eat when you were hungry and you wanted to stop eating when you were no longer

hungry. And in between you played, you hung out, you did things. So unless your parents trained you to associate food with

happiness or love you didn't think about it unless you were hungry now I know

many of you right now were saying that was me. I always

thought about food but when we're born we don't have those thoughts. We

can't we simply act instinctually when we're a baby we're empty and that sends a signal that we need to cry to survive to get fed

So everything that you went through in your childhood when you wanted food and try to make

yourself feel better with food or sweets is something learned.

The good news is you can learn something different even if it's been many many years but let's go back for a

minute to hunger and fullness today we're going to talk about fullness in general

what it feels like and what you're used to feeling and

how you generally describe your fullness and why you may be used to feeling more full than you need to be.

Because fullness means something to us emotionally.

And I want you to start looking at your fullness more objectively. And you may get used to being overly full and that can

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