What is true hunger like? - A journey to Food Freedom

How often do you feel hunger, because your digestion is asking for food?

Hunger is an interesting concept to dive into & I love to keep exploring the depths of our own longing & behaviors around our eating & emotions. 

So often we feel hunger, but it turns to be a hunger for something else than food, somehow translated into the desire for a dish or snack.

‘ It turns to be a hunger for something else than food, somehow translated into the desire for a dish or snack.‘

In order to start to understand the different ways hunger comes to us, we first need to clear ourselves from fog of mental restriction around our eating. Whenever we, time after time, don’t allow ourselves to have the thing we actually want, this specific food gets this allure over it. Like a magical golden thread wrapped around, as if it more special than another food. It is then that we get trapped into these inner conflict of allowance and restrictions. 

To clear out our mind, we have to walk the path of releasing resistance towards our urges. Moving along with them for a while, so we can undo the foods from the special packaging we have boxed them into in our mind. To bring them down from them pedestal, back into balance. 

When you make this brave move, of undoing, of allowing, of stopping the resistance towards your desires of certain foods, Food Freedom returns to you. 

We can start to separate the two, when we have clear vision. 

Start to ask yourself: What is the reason I want to go to food right now?

What need am I trying to meet with my eating?

Is it a true hunger or a hunger for comfort?

For energy?

For safety?

For distraction?

For stability?

‘We can start to separate the two, when we have clear vision. ‘

Journaling about your hunger

A beautiful exercise is to journal about your hunger whenever you find yourself out of control with food. How were you feeling? Why was there this intense pull towards this food? Are you allowing yourself or do you try to restrain? & if there is an unmet need, how can you meet it in non-food ways? 

By shifting our focus on meeting our need, I am not saying you shouldn’t use food as a way to meet your need. Sometimes food might bring you comfort in the best way & how beautiful that food can do that for you. We simply want to bring the choice back into our own hands. Feeling the freedom of choice every single moment of our day!

That is what true food freedom is like.

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