Welcome to Funky About Food, Nutrition Therapy! I’m Lynn Penrose, RD, here to help you dissolve your food funk!

Today, I’m talking about a solution for the funk factor of Food Emotion Commotion, which is eating, or not eating due to uncomfortable, yucky emotions!

Let’s start with the question: How do you know when to stop eating? I was just teaching a class on this very topic, and here are some answers I got:
-“I stop eating when it hurts!”
-“I stop eating because it’s all gone!”
-“But if it tastes really good, I can’t stop!”
And here is a good one-
“If I get too full, that is when I decide to keep on eating!”

This is obviously a topic that needs a solution, and fast! How do you decide to stop eating?

Here is the dealio: Deciding when to stop eating is a very personal decision, so begin to ask yourself, how do I want to feel after this meal?

Download the free hunger/fullness scale, to get an idea of how you want to feel after a meal. You will gradually learn how to respond (key word is responding) to fullness levels.

By doing this…
-your natural weight may emerge
-relying on your fullness cues, while you are eating, will help you determine when to stop eating so you no longer have to feel uncomfortably full after eating.

Stay tuned for more free nutrition therapy, so together we can dissolve your food funk!