Ep 146 - I keep eating past fullness!

<p>Honoring fullness:</p> <p>We get many people who say I can’t seem to honor my fullness, I often go past being full and I just cannot seem to control myself! What is going on?</p> <p>These people often are allowing all food, honoring their hunger and they are doing the work so what is going on? Why does this piece feel so difficult? </p> <p>There are a few reasons this could be happening and we will go through them today and chat about what you can do to take steps in the direction of being at ease with fullness and having it feel much more simple.</p> <p>The top 3 reasons you might not feel like you can honor your fullness is:</p> <p> </p> <p>Reason #1: We say this all the time but it is the sneakiest part of this work - mental restriction.</p> <p> </p> <p>What does mental restriction sound like:</p> <p>It's thoughts like:</p> <p> “oh i really shouldnt be eating bread again”  </p> <p>“I’ll just try to be more intuitive tomorrow” </p> <p>“I shouldn’t be hungry already!”</p> <p>All of these judgements can lead to overeating because your body reacts almost the same to mental restriction as it does to physical restriction. This is why people can continue to struggle even though they’re allowing “all the foods”.</p> <p>So what can happen if you mentally restrict?</p> <p> </p> <ul><li>last suppers (body is still expecting to be restricted at some point)</li> </ul> <ul><li>Feeling more urgent with food (eating it all now - EVEN THOUGH you technically know you could eat more tomorrow)</li> </ul> <ul><li>Consistently overeating</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>How can you begin easing this?</p> <p> </p> <ul><li>Listen to your thoughts - do they contain shoulds? What are these shoulds about? Time (I really shouldn't have to eat for a few hours), types of food (I shouldn't be eating carbs again today), amounts (1 cookie is plenty, I shouldn't have eaten 3!!) or other rules?</li> <li>These are then rules that you want to begin shifting even if they rule is just in your brain. If you