Ever wondered why sometimes your body screams for fuel and other times you're reaching for a snack out of sheer habit? Or why some foods look irresistible even when you know you're not hungry? We're breaking it all down today!

Hey friends! Welcome back to another episode of Nourish to Bloom. Today we're diving into a topic that can truly transform your relationship with food, and it's all about understanding the different Types of Hunger.

In this episode, we'll explore five unique types of hunger and provide tips to help you recognize what your body is really asking for. By tuning into these cues, we can develop a better awareness of our body's needs and make more informed choices.

Here's a sneak peek of what you'll learn:

🔍 Biological or Physical Hunger: This is your everyday hunger, that natural cue your body sends when it's time for a meal or a snack. It's influenced by many factors including psychological mechanisms, hormones, and activity levels. Recognizing these signals is crucial for nourishing your body appropriately.

🍰 Taste Hunger: Ever find yourself wanting to eat something just because it looks or sounds delicious, even if you're not particularly hungry? This is taste hunger in action. Kara explains how intuitive eating allows us to enjoy these moments without guilt.

🕒 Practical Hunger: Sometimes, our busy schedules require us to plan our meals strategically. Practical hunger is about eating proactively, so you don't find yourself ravenously hungry later. This approach is especially useful for managing your day smoothly without the interruption of sudden hunger pangs.

🧠 Emotional Hunger: This type of hunger isn't about nourishing your body but rather coping with emotions. Differentiating between biological and emotional hunger can help you make better food choices and avoid emotional eating traps.

🌪️ Primal Hunger: Ever gotten so hungry you became "hangry"? This overwhelming hunger can drive us to overeat because our bodies are in desperate need of fuel. Understanding primal hunger helps in recognizing the importance of more subtle hunger cues before reaching this intense state.

🌟 The magic lies in recognizing these different types of hunger and responding to them appropriately. It's like tuning into a language your body has been speaking all along but you just needed the Rosetta Stone to understand it.

This week, let's challenge ourselves to pay closer attention to our hunger cues and ask ourselves what kind of hunger we're actually experiencing before we eat. You've got this!

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Time Stamp Overview

  • 00:00 Introduction to different types of hunger.
  • 01:45 Deep dive into biological or physical hunger.
  • 08:30 Exploring taste hunger.
  • 14:20 Practical hunger and meal planning tips.
  • 18:50 Emotional hunger vs. biological hunger.
  • 25:00 Primal hunger: recognizing and managing 'hangry' moments.
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[00:00:01] Have you ever felt hungry but struggled to identify whether your body truly needed nourishment or if something else was really at play?

[00:00:12] Maybe you find yourself standing in front of the refrigerator late at night looking for the answers to solve all your problems.

[00:00:19] Well, you're not alone. And being able to understand the different types of hunger you may be experiencing can really be a game changer.

[00:00:29] So in this episode, we're breaking down the 5 distinct types of hunger.

[00:00:33] Biological hunger, taste hunger, practical hunger, emotional hunger, and primer, primal hunger.

[00:00:41] By tuning into these cues and understanding these different types of hunger,

[00:00:45] you can develop a better awareness of your body's needs and be able to make more informed and more helpful choices.

[00:00:53] We'll explore how everyday factors like previous meals, your activity level, and hormones all influence your biological hunger.

[00:01:01] Plus we'll dig into what it means to experience taste hunger, practical hunger, and how that can help in our busy lives.

[00:01:08] The urgency of emotional hunger and how to not fall into that emotional eating trap, and the all two familiar primal hunger, often describe as being hangry.

[00:01:19] So join us today as we impact each type and learn how to better listen to your body and help improve your health.

[00:01:27] Welcome to the nearest of Bloom podcast where you're a faith, meet your health. I'm your host Cara Traptit, a registered dietitian and certified Catholic coach,

[00:01:36] and I'm here to help you cultivate a deeper connection with your body, your spirit, and the nourishment that sustains them both.

[00:01:43] In a world filled with noise and confusion about food, health, and body image, the podcast offers truth and healing from a Christ-centered perspective.

[00:01:52] Together we'll untangle the deep roots of diet culture, and discover what it means to truly care for ourselves through joyful nourishment of mind, body, and soul.

[00:02:03] We're here to dive into the transformative power of intuitive eating, coupled with the rich teachings of our Christian faith.

[00:02:09] With every episode I'll be cheering you on, offering insights, inspiration, and practical tools to help you heal your relationship with food,

[00:02:17] and embrace the beauty of your body as a temple of the Holy Spirit.

[00:02:22] With confidence and courage that can only be found in Christ.

[00:02:27] Join me as we journey together towards a more holistic approach to wellness,

[00:02:31] when that honors the wisdom of your body as God's creation, the teachings of our faith and the unique purpose you're called to fulfill.

[00:02:39] You were made to bloom, to come into full beauty and health in order to bear good fruit for the Lord with your life.

[00:02:47] So if you're ready to nourish your body, feed your soul and bloom into the best version of yourself, then you're in the right place, and I'm so happy you're here.

[00:02:57] Welcome to Nurs to Bloom.

[00:02:59] Where every day is a sacred invitation to thrive.

[00:03:04] Hey there, and welcome back to another episode of the Nurs to Bloom Podcast.

[00:03:08] I'm your host, Cara Trockte, and I'm so excited to be here with you this week, and talking about the different types of hunger.

[00:03:16] So this podcast episode is all about practicality and giving you some really, really down to earth.

[00:03:24] Practical clues and tools to help you identify the different types of hunger.

[00:03:31] You may have never heard that idea before that there are different types of hunger.

[00:03:36] I certainly had no idea that there were different types of hunger before I discovered intuitive eating,

[00:03:40] but when you can really understand that there are these different types of hunger, and you can identify which one you may be experiencing,

[00:03:49] you can really start to be able to tap into that internal body wisdom, and understand those God-given cues,

[00:03:56] and build that awareness that you need to determine if your hungry and the sense of your body is really needing that nourishment,

[00:04:05] or are you hungry from an emotional or psychological need?

[00:04:09] And being able to do this is just one step in being able to have a better connection with your body,

[00:04:15] and ultimately a better connection with the Lord.

[00:04:18] It allows you to be able to trust your body and know that God created it in a good and well-order design.

[00:04:27] So there are really those five different types of hunger that we'll be discussing today.

[00:04:31] And again, some of this hunger is driven by your biological needs for energy and nourishment,

[00:04:38] while some of them are driven by that mental or emotional need.

[00:04:41] And so today we're going to help you be able to distinguish the different types of hunger,

[00:04:48] so you can become a better intuitive eater, and really be able to help break any sort of emotional eating habits that you may be struggling with.

[00:04:58] So the first type of hunger we're going to talk about is biological hunger.

[00:05:03] So biological hunger is the normal natural everyday hunger that you feel, and it is driven by your biological needs for energy and nutrients.

[00:05:15] And it's a type of hunger that tells you you need a snack or you need a meal because your body needs that energy.

[00:05:22] It's that energy-seeking hunger that God created as part of your human design to ensure your survival.

[00:05:32] There are many different things that can influence your biological hunger though.

[00:05:37] So your biological hunger is the result of this cascade of events that happen in your body,

[00:05:43] and it's based off of many different factors that start a messaging system.

[00:05:48] And this messaging system turns on those hunger cues.

[00:05:52] And it's in those signals throughout your body and your mind saying,

[00:05:58] Hey, I need some fuel. Can you please feed me?

[00:06:02] We can feel those biological signs of hunger like maybe a rumbling tummy or kind of a sense of emptiness,

[00:06:08] or maybe you have a little bit of fatigue or slight brain frog.

[00:06:12] Not a brain frog, sorry, brain fog.

[00:06:17] But it's really this message system that goes throughout the body and it alerts your mind to the fact that you're hungry

[00:06:24] and it alerts your body to the fact that you're hungry.

[00:06:27] So when you're feeling those body cues, your response to that biological hunger should be to listen to it and eat something, eat some food.

[00:06:37] We choose foods to nourish our body that are satisfying and in the correct amount that our body needs in order to be replenished.

[00:06:46] And so this helps us be able to stop eating when we're comfortably full and satisfied.

[00:06:52] Now, some other things that influence your biological hunger are psychological mechanisms.

[00:06:58] So if you are operating from that diet mentality and you're really trying to restrict calories or restrict the amount of food that you're eating.

[00:07:07] Or you're depriving yourself from eating certain foods, we know that that has a lot of psychological effects.

[00:07:15] Like our food cravings increase and our thoughts become very preoccupied with food.

[00:07:21] And this is really our brains way of trying to tell us to wake up and trying to tell us like, hey, it needs food because it doesn't know that that restriction and that deprivation is self-imposed.

[00:07:34] It's just trying to keep you alive. So the more that you restrict, the more intense the responses from your body, the more powerful your biology becomes and the more it starts to put things into this overdrive to ensure that you get the fuel and the calories that you mean.

[00:07:52] So it'll start to compensate by holding on to calories or it will turn to alternative fuel sources like breaking down the protein in your lean muscle mass for fuel.

[00:08:03] And these are not effective, efficient or healthy ways to fuel your body.

[00:08:10] This is why God created that biological hunger, that natural normal hunger that we should pay attention to and listen to and eat foods that are nourishing and satisfying

[00:08:21] to ensure our survival. Now, other things that can influence that biological hunger level are your previous meals and your activity level.

[00:08:31] How much you ate at the meal or the snack before will really determine how long it'll be before those biological hunger cues start to signal again.

[00:08:41] Determine like how long it'll be between meals and snacks.

[00:08:45] Your activity level will also play a factor in this. So if you've moved and you've burned calories, that will affect your biological hunger by increasing the frequency or the intensity or the amount of food that you need because your body has been alerted that it needs to replenish.

[00:09:02] And like I noticed that today, I worked out in the morning and so I've been hungry year throughout the day. That's normal.

[00:09:10] And that's the way our body should operate. My body used a lot more calories at the beginning of the day burned a lot more energy at the beginning of the day.

[00:09:18] And so now it's sending this signal throughout my body saying, hey, I need some fuel. I need some fuel. So your activity level throughout the day.

[00:09:26] And what you do from day to day will really influence that biological hunger as well.

[00:09:34] Your hormones will also influence your biological hunger. You may notice that at different types of different times of the month depending on your hormones and where you are in your cycle, you may be experiencing more hunger or more specific cravings.

[00:09:49] And that's all normal and natural. It's the way that your body is preparing to go through your menstruation part of your cycle. Your body needs that extra calorie, those that extra energy in order to have that normal natural part of your cycle, play out.

[00:10:08] But if you're recovering from a diet mentality, it can be really hard to accept these normal natural cues, except this biological hunger because you've been conditioned to believe that being hungry is a bad thing.

[00:10:24] That it's not okay to be hungry and you shouldn't want to eat or you should only want to eat, quote unquote, diet approved foods.

[00:10:32] Instead, I want to offer up a mindset shift for you.

[00:10:36] I want you to really think about these hunger cues and you're feeling and experiencing these hunger cues as evidence that your body is working properly.

[00:10:47] And to really take on this attitude of appreciation that it is working in the way that God intended your body to work.

[00:10:55] And this ultimately supports your overall health.

[00:11:00] So if intuitive eating is new to you and you find that you really aren't feeling some of these biological cues, there are some ways that you can help bring those signals and those cues back online.

[00:11:12] Diding and weight loss can cause your natural hunger cues to fade over time because you work so hard to suppress those feelings of hunger.

[00:11:20] So to help bring them back, a good rule of thumb is to not go more than five waking hours without eating something.

[00:11:28] Now, of course, the ideal and the goal and what we are working towards is to be able to rely on those hunger signals.

[00:11:35] But there are things like illness and chronic dieting that can cause an interruption of those natural body signals.

[00:11:43] So we want to make sure that we are doing what we can to support the nourishment of our body.

[00:11:47] And so for some people that may be being able to pay attention to how long they have gone between meals if for some reason like illness or that.

[00:11:58] You know, chronic dieting has suppressed those those hunger cues.

[00:12:03] Because the whole point of all of this is to really nourish your body with good and satisfying food so you can be equipped and prepared to live out that calling that God has for your life.

[00:12:17] When you learn to rely on your biological hunger cues it really allows you to put your faith and trust into God's human design.

[00:12:26] It allows you to live out what Christ tells us in Matthew 625.

[00:12:32] Therefore, I tell you do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on is not life more than food and body more than clothing.

[00:12:46] And Matthew chapter 6 goes on to remind us that God will provide us what we need because He loves us.

[00:12:53] And we should spend our time seeking the kingdom of heaven instead of focusing on those earthly things.

[00:13:01] So next up we have taste hunger and this is when something just sounds good.

[00:13:06] You think, oh man, that's going to taste so good and I just want to eat it.

[00:13:10] It may be a craving that you're experiencing.

[00:13:13] Now sometimes when this happens, you might actually be feeling those physical body cues of that biological hunger.

[00:13:21] The rumbling of the tummy, the emptiness feeling, however your body presents feeling hungry.

[00:13:29] And if that's the case, if you're feeling those cues, then it would be normal and the right thing to do to respond to that hunger and choose food that will be satisfying and nourishing to your body.

[00:13:41] But sometimes taste hunger comes up in social situations, like maybe you're at a birthday party and you're not really feeling hungry.

[00:13:50] You're not getting any of those biological cues but that cake looks really good.

[00:13:55] So you really want to have a piece of cake.

[00:13:58] Like what do you do?

[00:14:00] This is always something that comes up with when I work with clients.

[00:14:03] It's like, well, I'm not hungry, but I see this food in it tastes good. What do I do?

[00:14:08] Well, here's how I would approach it.

[00:14:09] I would acknowledge a fact that I'm not feeling physically hungry.

[00:14:14] So I know that my hunger level is not very high, but I would enjoy having a piece of cake.

[00:14:20] So what I would do is I would get a piece of cake and I would take it bite by bite.

[00:14:26] And with each bite, I'm evaluating how it tastes.

[00:14:29] Does it taste as good as I thought it would?

[00:14:32] If not, then I'd likely stop eating knowing that I would rather enjoy a really good piece of cake some other time than just have this cake because it's here and available.

[00:14:44] That's kind of the beauty of intuitive eating is no-wing that if it doesn't, if it's not worthy of your taste buds and you don't have to eat it.

[00:14:52] It's knowing that because you have this food freedom and you're not mmbarded by all these food rules,

[00:14:58] you know that you can have a piece of cake at some other point in time.

[00:15:04] It's not just these rules of like, well, I can't have this cake or I can only have it at this time.

[00:15:09] It's knowing that you're going to choose things based off the satisfaction and what you're wanting in that moment.

[00:15:14] And if something isn't living up to what you thought it was going to, then you can simply say, okay, yeah, this wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be.

[00:15:22] And I would rather have something that tastes really, really good.

[00:15:24] Now, if I'm sitting there and I'm eating this cake and it does taste amazing.

[00:15:30] Bite, bye, bye. I'm checking in to see when that amazingness starts to taper off.

[00:15:36] We have that natural kind of habituation that comes with eating usually the X number of bite like fifth, sixth, seventh, whatever bite.

[00:15:45] Doesn't taste as good as the first bite.

[00:15:46] We have that natural kind of decrease of satisfaction and that's really what kind of helps us play into those fullness levels.

[00:15:55] And so, that's when I'm noticing like that satisfaction is waning.

[00:15:59] It doesn't taste as good as it did at the first bite and I know that I'm getting close to the point of when I would stop eating.

[00:16:05] I'm also, again, aware and checking in on my fullness level knowing that I don't want to eat so much cake that I get to the point of being uncomfortably full because I know that it won't help me feel great later.

[00:16:20] Y'all, this is the beauty of being an intuitive eater.

[00:16:23] It's that when this taste hunger happens, you can move on from it without having to overthink or feel guilty.

[00:16:30] The other beautiful thing of intuitive eating is that when you lean into making food choices that include satisfaction and you find that you're having this taste hunger and it's simply signaling like, oh, that looks really good.

[00:16:45] But if you take a couple of bites and it doesn't taste as good as it looks, you know that you can walk away from it.

[00:16:51] And then it's not going to continue to occupy your thoughts or end up leading to a binge later because you deprived yourself in that moment.

[00:17:01] So taste hunger is simply this idea of like something looks good, or you think that this might taste good and so you allow yourself to have it.

[00:17:09] You rely on those tools of mindful eating and leaning into satisfaction and those fullness cues and you move on.

[00:17:18] It's all about food isn't getting to control your thoughts or your actions and so you're left being able to enjoy what really matters in that situation.

[00:17:30] Okay, next up we have practical hunger.

[00:17:34] So practical hunger is really beneficial for our busy busy lives, especially as moms with all the after school activities.

[00:17:44] Practical hunger really helps you be able to make informed decisions for yourself and your family.

[00:17:51] And it's all about evaluating this fact that like you may not be experiencing hunger right now, you may have zero cues of being hungry right now.

[00:18:02] But you have this meeting coming up or the kids have this after school activity and whatever time that is, you may experience hunger and then you're not going to have the ability to eat something then.

[00:18:16] And so it's this thought process of like if I don't eat something now.

[00:18:20] I know that I'm going to end up being very, very hungry and overly hungry by that time of day.

[00:18:27] So I'm going to make the decision to maybe eat a little snack right now or a small meal right now.

[00:18:32] So I'm not allowing myself to get to that point of being overly hungry because I know that when I get overly hungry, I may lead into a bench or not being able to make good informed decisions.

[00:18:45] So other ways that this practical hunger comes into play and I've really been seeing this work in our own life, our own family life right now and I've really been leaning into this is like again with those after school activities and sports.

[00:19:01] It seems like the kids have a game or practice or dance, like right when it would be dinner time.

[00:19:08] So our choices are to eat at like 430 in the afternoon or like 8 o'clock at night and so instead what I have done in our own family is instead of like letting my kids have a snack right after school.

[00:19:22] We actually have our dinner meal earlier at like 430 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon depending on the day and depending on the activity.

[00:19:30] And then they can have a snack later when they get home from practice or game or dance or whatever.

[00:19:36] Instead of having that big meal right before it's time to go to bed.

[00:19:41] So this helps ensure that my kids are at least being offered a balanced meal when they are actually feeling hungry.

[00:19:49] Because sometimes when they get home from practice or whatever game whatever they're just tired and they're ready to wind down and they're ready to shower and get into bed.

[00:20:00] So they're not really interested in eating a full meal.

[00:20:03] So by offering that meal after school it means that they have the opportunity to get that balanced nourishment instead of it being like okay we have a snack after school because we're hungry and then we go to practice.

[00:20:15] And hey I'm not super hungry because I'm tired and I don't want to eat this full meal so I just have another snack and so they actually never get a full balanced meal.

[00:20:26] So, practical hunger is just that ability to take into consideration your schedule and take into consideration you know how long it's been since you've eaten something and knowing that you know I'm not hungry right now but I know I would probably be hungry at this time and you know we're busy or I have this.

[00:20:46] So I know that I'm not going to be able to eat then so if I don't eat now I'm going to end up being overly hungry.

[00:20:53] And so those are just some ways that that practical hunger can come into play.

[00:20:58] It's helping you be able to plan meals and snacks based off of different things on the schedule different meetings different activities and really being able to say again like if I go too long I'm going to be too hungry and I know it'll likely lead into overeating if I don't eat something now.

[00:21:15] Again the ideal and the goal that we're working towards is being able to rely on those hunger cues as much as possible.

[00:21:23] But sometimes meetings and practices don't allow for it so we can still promote our health and getting that balanced nourishment by incorporating some of these planned hunger practices versus in a you know, a not so healthy choice is to let that.

[00:21:40] You know, rather than you're going to be able to make a good choice.

[00:21:52] So we're going to lead into emotional eating as our next type of hunger so emotional eating is something that plays a lot of the women I work with.

[00:22:01] So I want to give you some really good practical ways that you can distinguish the difference between that normal biological hunger and how it presents versus how emotional hunger presents.

[00:22:14] So remember when you're feeling that biological hunger that normal natural hunger it happens throughout the day and it has this gradual onset we eat something it's nourishing and satisfying we feel full we stop eating we go on about our day.

[00:22:31] And gradually after a couple of hours we start to feel those hunger cues come on again now sometimes it's only an hour after eating that we feel those hunger cues sometimes it's three or four hours after we're eating that we feel that remember it depends on the activity level and what those previous meals you've eaten included.

[00:22:51] But it has again more of that gradual onset and really any type of food meal or snack would satisfy there's not this really intense.

[00:23:03] Creating for something very specific it's more of a meal with satisfy or a sustainable snack with satisfied and you're able to make those food choices based on your preferences and what would be nourishing to your body.

[00:23:17] And you also have those biological signs of hunger present like in your stomach or in your head wherever it is that those feelings of biological hunger present in your body.

[00:23:28] You're feeling those body cues and then once you eat and you are comfortably full you're able to easily stop eating.

[00:23:39] Now, this is very different from emotional eating with emotional eating there's usually like this really quick sudden onset and it usually comes after experience a situation that brings about intense feelings.

[00:23:51] There's like this sense of urgency it's like I need something and I need it now there's usually a very, very specific craving for a very, very specific food and it tends to be something that is carbohydrate rich or high in fat.

[00:24:06] It's like that craving for a specific food because you're seeking out comfort you want something that's going to give you comfort and so you're not feeling those signs of biological hunger.

[00:24:17] It's really emotionally driven and what it is that you're seeking.

[00:24:22] So when this happens it becomes more difficult to stop eating when you're full there tends to be that desire to pass the point of being full because you're still trying to deal with that emotion.

[00:24:33] You're seeking comfort or reprieve from whatever that emotion is but the reality is that food isn't the answer because even after you finish eating that emotion is still lingering and it's been undeliqued with and it's usually now accompanied or compounded by guilt or shame.

[00:24:52] So in order to kind of overcome this emotional eating you have to learn to create that pause versus that autopilot you may be running on now that had you reaching for food being able to pause and tap into, you know what am I feeling.

[00:25:07] What am I thinking like am I biologically hungry am I feeling any of those hunger cues.

[00:25:15] Do I even want something to eat?

[00:25:19] What are you really seeking are you dealing with some emotions and wanting to use food to cope with those and it's really important to turn to God in those moments and let him be your comfort and healing.

[00:25:32] I struggled a lot with emotional eating and when I could really understand and distinguish the difference between that biological hunger and how that was so very different from that emotional hunger it really helped me to temper.

[00:25:46] That emotional eating struggle it really helped me be able to find ways to better deal with my emotions and so I really hope that these clues can help you start to distinguish that difference between biological hunger and emotional hunger.

[00:26:01] The next type of hunger we're going to discuss is primal hunger because I love primal hunger.

[00:26:08] It's from this like I love it from the standpoint of like the number one way that you describe primal hunger is hangry like you are just so hangry you are overly hungry your biology is in like full overdrive.

[00:26:24] You are ravenous and your body is like watch out nothing you can do is going to stop me from getting food and I'm going to eat because I am just so so hungry I'm starving and you know like I'm just going to have whatever is available whatever I can get easily.

[00:26:43] How many of you have ever experienced that right we've all probably experienced those feelings of hangry we've all probably experienced or seen someone we know and love be hangry and you're just like.

[00:26:53] Whoa, what is this tornado that just got unleashed but the problem with primal hunger is that many of us only know.

[00:27:02] That feeling of primal hunger like we will only allow ourselves to eat when we get to that point of being hangry or ravenously hungry.

[00:27:11] We don't really recognize more of those subtle effects or subtle cues of hunger and the side effect of only eating when you get to that point of being hangry is that you tend to overeat because you're not able to feel calm or in control around food or whatever it is that you're eating.

[00:27:31] Because your biology has kicked in, your body and it's compensation in the way that God is designed it to make ensure you're survival that biology is kicked in and it's just making sure you get food and you get calories because it has stuff to do.

[00:27:46] It has things that it means to keep you alive and when we get to this point of only eating when we're hangry and we don't have those feelings of calmness or being in control.

[00:27:57] It's what makes us believe that we have no self-control around food but the reality is that we're just waiting too long to eat.

[00:28:08] And so when we can start to lean into that biological hunger and recognize those subtle cues we can prevent these feelings of overeating and having and prevent those feelings of being out of control around food.

[00:28:23] And when we allow ourselves to get hangry we will likely overeat because we cannot tap into those bodily sensations of fullness because your biology is just taken over.

[00:28:35] It's been so deprived of food or start for fuel that it's just going to do everything and it's power to make sure that it gets what it's mean, it means.

[00:28:43] So I want you to stop and ask yourself, is it a common thing for you to only be aware of your hunger when you're feeling hangry or when you're feeling an experiencing primal hunger?

[00:28:57] Because if it is, then you're going to have to start building that awareness around some of those more subtle cues of hunger.

[00:29:06] When you're able to really begin to understand and be aware of these different types of hunger and how they play out in your in your life and are there, you know, some patterns that you're seeing it's a huge first step towards becoming an intuitive eater.

[00:29:22] It's important for us to understand like the why and the motivation behind us reaching for food.

[00:29:31] Are we eating because we're feeling that normal natural hunger, are we being driven by our emotions or are we overly hungry and that's what's leading us to eating.

[00:29:42] And are we being able to make good healthy food choices because we're attuned with those those natural biological hunger cues or are we instead developing unwanted habits like emotional eating and overeating because we are letting ourselves, you know.

[00:30:03] Hope with our emotions with food returning to food to deal with our emotions or we're letting ourselves get too hungry.

[00:30:11] All of these things are really important as you start this intuitive eating journey and they're all really practical things that you could start to incorporate even now that's going to have a profound difference in your,

[00:30:26] and you being able to build healthy eating habits.

[00:30:31] So speaking of building healthy habits, are you ready to find your faith led wellness school and get to work on achieving it?

[00:30:41] Maybe you want to build body confidence and overcome your body image struggles.

[00:30:47] Maybe you want to, you know, fully go on, go all in on being being an intuitive eater and going through everything that would help build that intuitive eating.

[00:30:59] Those intuitive eating habits or maybe you want to be able to get your emotional eating under control or maybe you just want to, you know, really work on that mindset piece and dig deep into those food beliefs.

[00:31:12] Like if you want any of those things then I invite you to book your free faith led wellness audit.

[00:31:18] This is a completely free session where you and I get to meet one on one and together, I'm going to help you get really clear about what your health goals are.

[00:31:30] We're going to work through it. We're going to, you know, do some goal settings, some goal setting with God.

[00:31:34] We're going to identify any potential barriers or obstacles that may get in your way.

[00:31:40] So you kind of know what speed bump speed bumps may be coming down the road and then together we're going to create a unique action plan that will move you into intentional action.

[00:31:52] So you can build sustainable habits that you need to reach that goal, but this action plan is going to take into consideration you and your unique preferences, your unique personality and your lifestyle.

[00:32:06] I encourage you to book this free session.

[00:32:08] You will walk away with so much clarity, so much of a sense of peace and calm and like this game plan and this action plan of how you can start to shift into this faith led wellness approach versus any of the approaches that you have been using now.

[00:32:25] So you can book this free session using the link that's found in the episode show notes. It's a calendar link you I would spell it out for you, but it would it would be too long.

[00:32:37] So if you just go to the link in the episode show notes, you click on it and you book your free session. Now spots are filling up fast so be sure to book yours today.

[00:32:48] As always, thank you for joining me on the podcast today. I would love to spread the faith led wellness and Christenard intuitive eating message with more women and I really need your help to do it.

[00:33:01] So please share this podcast with friends, with family, share it on social media and together we will help more women find food freedom and step into the life God designed for them.

[00:33:15] As always remember beauty, hold it to seed, beauty shared is the flower it is your time to bloom. God bless and I hope you have a beautiful week and we'll talk soon. Bye!

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