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On day 5, I am joined by the brilliant Dr David Unwin.
In this film, I am going to teach you today about 9 different hungers or really - I should say 9 different triggers that cause you to eat.
Every decision you make, then every action you take, around food is for what reason? -
AND understanding what it is that makes you eat, is one of the most important parts of the RESET.
You need to be able to identify all of the 9 triggers as often as you can. Because you will then have a better chance of managing your gremlin. You can then use the charts in your journal to map the habit loop and substitute the eating habit.
Why is hunger so clever? Because not only does it involve no actual pain-we only know the feeling as: “I’d like something to eat”
Now, it is pretty obvious that Mother Nature’s intention was to make sure that we supply our bodies with sufficient energy and nutrients in order to be fit and healthy and survive, but she designed that software when food was scarce and when there wasn’t fridges, supermarkets nor Deliveroo!
She designed it before the microwave, fast food restaurants and JustEAT!
We are first going to discuss 3 Real Hungers and then a bunch that aren’t.
1 - Energy Hunger
The first is a genuine hunger, and is caused when you have low blood sugar and for some reason you are unable to burn your own stored body fat as energy.
You often become hangry, and your hungry hormone Ghrelin drives a survival emotion to eat, especially sugary food, so your body can burn it quickly.
Your stomach grumbles and you normally will immediately reach for food.
But here is the thing.. This type of hunger, real hunger, rarely happens in modern society. We rarely feel this hunger in the commercialised world, but of the 9 hungers we are about to discuss it’s the only real one.
Also don’t confuse it for a fake hunger. Often it’s not really a hunger but a miss understood feeling of not feeling full and Eating to feel full is not necessary.
By the way, an empty stomach does not mean hunger. Does that make sense?
Your body and stomach are designed to feast and famine. It is designed to take on big load and then be empty for long periods, that’s what happens when you fast and, that is what has happened for 2 million years, up until just the last few hundred years.
2-- Nutritional Hunger
The brain is very logical, it’s always looking for certain foods. We have already mentioned that there are a bunch of amino acids, nine of them we need to survive. There are a few essential fatty acids, which we need to survive, like omega 3, then there are 13 vitamins and 14 minerals that experts around the world all agree that we need to survive. Having spoken with a lot of experts, it appears in total, there is about 37 micronutrients that we MUST consume regulary, to be healthy.
You probably can name a few, but your brain doesn’t know any of them by name, but just by switches that say either you have them ALL or you don’t.
And until you get them it will keep telling you that you are hungry until you get them. That’s why you are always hungry unless you get them.
And that’s why they don’t put many of them in processed foods.
They need you to be hungry to eat more. You will learn in coming weeks how often they actually remove vitamins or minerals intentionally or at least destroy them in the process of making eerrr- processed foods.
3 -Thirst is a hunger.
Now let me explain the 3rd type of hunger - THIRST - You see, when we ate primally, it came with lots of water. Think about it, vegetables are full of water, think celery, cucumber. In-fact, all of the following are often over 95% water, lettuce, celery, bok choy, cucumber, courgette, watercress, tomatoes, even bell peppers and asparagus are over 90%, so too are swiss chard, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and spinach.
Today though, packaged food has very little water. So once you start eating primally and fill your plate with greens, not only does your nutritional density go up, so too does your water. But, even then, you still need to be drinking 1 to 2 litres a day.
Any way back to the point, your bodies message to your brain for water, is exactly the same as hunger.
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8 авг 2024
