Yesterday when I got home from work I was hungry, and today before lunch I was hungry too. I immediately started sorting out what was going wrong, why SLD might not be working, what I needed to change…and then I realized…
Hunger is GOOD.
Starving, not so much, I admit that freely. But hunger? It is natural. It is NORMAL. Hunger means your body has run through the energy supply it had on tap and needs more fuel. Hunger is much more natural state than a constant sense of fullness. I remember reading once that if you wake up NOT hungry, then you overate the night before (how scientific that statement is, I don’t know, but it makes sense to me). I am much more used to waking up not hungry — I am, in short, much more used to constantly eating too much.
I’ve never been a binge eater but I’ve also never been one to limit my portion sizes or stop a runaway sweet tooth. The nascent feeling of hunger pangs would often send me into a mild panic to eat something which usually ended up being unhealthy by dent of being readily availalbe (junk food, candy, etc.).
Nowadays, though, I’m not panicking. I’m eating LESS because of SLD and that makes me genuinely hungry in a healthy way; and because of some issues I’ve been addressing in therapy, I’m not panicking as much about being hungry. It’s a two-punch solution for me, but it would hardly count at all if I were not doing my SLD doses regularly.
Not to sound hokey but yeah, it really IS like the dawn of a new day.
