Helping the Hangry - Part II

Tjela Naphtha

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Episode Title: Helping the Hangry II – Continuing Interview with Katie Hart, LMHC, Certified Nutritionist Intro: Katie is the founder of Hartsspace Mental Health and Nutrition. She believes in a whole person approach to wellness, and takes an innovative and individualized approach to providing health and wellness to each of her clients. She provides a variety of different options to help her clients manage their overall physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. We’ll listen as Katie talks about the physiology of hunger, and how it works in the mind and the body to create the condition of “Hangry,” which is a combination of “Hunger” and “Anger.” This episode will help you become more aware of how “Hangry” can show up in your life and increase the chaos of your mind. Katie will also offer some mental health and nutrition tips, tools and techniques to help you prevent and cope with the condition of “Hangry,” when it shows up as chaos in your life. <ol> <li>How blood sugar levels (lifts and dips) contribute to the “Hangry” chaos of the mind</li> </ol> <ol> <li>Think of cookies or rice: You can eat 5 cookies (or 3 cups of rice) and have a HUGE blood sugar lift, but then also experience a proportionate blood sugar dip afterward, which is harder on your system.</li> </ol> <ol> <li>Alternatively, you can keep the cookies and rice (remember, there are no good or bad foods!) but decrease the quantity to avoid the HUGE blood sugar lift and dip).</li> </ol> <ol> <li>Eating 2 cookies (as opposed to 5) and eating 1 cup of rice (as opposed to 3) can help you better regulate and balance your blood sugar and avoid being “Hangry”.</li> </ol> <ol> <li>TIP: Don’t label foods as “Good” or “Bad.” All foods fit!</li> </ol> <ol> <li>It’s about proper balance and good blood sugar regulation for optimal nutrition and mental health.</li> </ol> <ol> <li>When your blood sugar is too low or too high it “Wakes up the Hangry Monster”</li> </ol>