IFS and Fullness Cues: Why Our Parts Keep Eating and How to Help Them Stop

<p class="" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Two weeks ago, I asked, are you hungry?  Today, I'm asking, are you full? And just like last week, that question may be really easy to answer, or it may be more difficult.</p> <p class="">But honestly, knowing you're full isn't usually the problem, is it?  <strong>For most people--myself included--the problem isn't that you don't realize you're full.  It's knowing you're full and continuing to eat anyway.</strong></p> <p class="">Right??? </p> <p class="">And then you end up eating to the point of feeling too full, stuffed.  Sometimes sick.  Which often sets off a cascade of criticism from your parts.  "How could you do this?  What's wrong with you?  Why can't you control yourself with food?"</p> <p class="">Eating past your fullness cues feels terrible both physically and emotionally.  And yet it's something that so many of us do a LOT.</p> <p class="">Why is that?</p> <p class="">As with anything involving food, it's not a simple answer.  Tuning into our bodies and eating in ways that are nurturing and satisfying is complicated.  But it's NOT impossible.  </p> <p class=""><strong>I've found that there are six different reasons for eating past our hunger cues, and we're talking about them all on this week's podcast.  </strong></p> <p class="">Eating past the point of fullness can be the result of physical and emotional factors.  And when I say emotional factors, I'm referring to parts (of course!).  The two most common physical factors are:  </p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class="">Eating with too many distractions</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Staring eating when you're too hungry</p> </li> </ul> <p class="">Our parts can also talk us into continuing eating despite feeling full.  Why would they do that?  For protection, of course, and because of the lessons that they've learned about food and eating.  I've noticed four different types or categories of parts that tend to lead people to surpass their fullness cues, and those are:  </p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p