Hunger and Emotions - Eating When You Are hungry

Because hunger and emotions are experienced in the stomach area of the body sometime it can be hard to tell the difference. The importance of Eating when You are Hungry is highlighted because if you eat because of your emotions you are much more likely to put weight on. What this post is aim to to is share a few of pointers of how you recognise your hunger and act upon it.

1. Eat regular healthy meals this way you won't have extreme feelings of hunger
2. Use a hunger scale, this helps set in a conscious way exactly how hungry you are, this is great way to tell the difference between emotions and hunger
3. Consciously eat being fully aware of the tastes, textures, smells and the messages your body is sending. One great way to experience eating consciously is to try the 'Eating a Raisin Experiment'
4. Be kind to yourself and make your life easier, for example checking your hunger scale to see if it above 5 prior to any food shopping trip.

I hope you have found this post helpful and remember to ask yourself next time you think you are hungry. How hungry am I on the hunger scale.

Take care and happy weight loss.

Weight Loss Psychology of Colour

Today I was watching a fascinating video which discussed the Weight Loss Psychology of Colour. We touched upon this in a previous post on our blog called 'Portion Control for Weight Loss' as well as one on our website titled the 'Psychology of Portion Control'. They stated the power of the subconscious mind people eat less from a blue plate.

In the video the first suggestion is to change the light bulb in you fridge to a blue light bulb. The reason behind this is really interesting and it goes something like this:

"It makes everything in the fridge unappetizing because we unconsciously associate blue with moldy food"
Source - HowCast Video

The Weight Loss Psychology of Colour then continues with the following statement:

"Red, Yellow and Orange stimulate the appetite"
Source - HowCast Video

This is why most fast food establishments use these colours, it is not an accident, it is done on purpose to sell more food and make us eat more unhealthy food. However the reason behind this Psychology of Weight Loss is that in nature foods of this colour are generally really good for us.

I hope you found this post helpful and whilst you checkout the video on youTube please subscribe to the MBWLtv channel to get the all the latest information for Weight Loss.

Kind regards

Mindful Mark