Hunger Meter

All the comments on my “Hunger” post were very informative! Thanks 🙂

The most common signs of hunger were:

• Irritability (two people want to kick-ass when they’re hungry!)
• Stomach growling
• Emptiness in your stomach

And it seems that many readers struggle with reading their hunger. The IE book says you should rate your hunger on a scale of 1 through 10.

1 = You are starving

5 = You are neither Hungry nor Full

10= After Thanksgiving stuffed

You should eat when you are at a 4 or 3. If you wait to long you risk overeating. Basically, if your body wants food and feels like you aren’t giving it what it needs all hopes of moderate eating fly out the window.

If you’re at anything higher than a 5 you probably aren’t hungry, but  may be looking for food for another reason.

It’s been very hard for me to Honor My Hunger since my hunger meter is broken. I wish I bought it from Costco and could return it for a new one (they have a good return policy). But I am working on fixing it. I’m going to try and use the scale to gauge my hunger for a few days. I don’t want to become obsessive about it, but a few days might help 🙂

Walk to Work

I took my Garmin on my walk to work and it was 3.4 miles. It took me about an hour! I guess I can be a slow walker sometimes (most of the time I’m fast, but I had my backpack). I got to work sweaty, good thing I had a change of clothes!

I packed a big salad topped with Couscous and Chickpea salad for lunch, and an apple. Good stuff!

Only 2 hours later I was hungry again so I Honored my Hunger and ate my baggie of trail mix. It was a lot, but perfect. I also ate a few pretzels with almond butter…it was about the drip when I took this pic!!!

Another 2 hours later and I ate my grapes, I think I was less hungry and more waiting for my ride at this point 🙂

Since Ben picked me up from work today I didn’t have the chance to come home and eat randomly, which is good. But, I’m still excited to try my 30 minute wait method tomorrow.

Dinner was a Veggie Burger wrap, carrots and honey mustard pretzels. And bites of Ben’s leftover Chinese for luck.

After dinner we took a walk and talked about life, liberty and the pursuit.

Now I’m eating ice cream frozen yogurt and blogging. There are few things in this world that make me happier than ice cream 🙂

Tomorrow is a Rest Day – guess I’ll be checking out the apartment ellipticals once again!

Blog Feedback

Thanks for the blog feedback. I’m really trying to improve the site over the next few weeks/months and I want to give the people what they want 🙂

I’m glad there were some takers for the Sex Talk, but Ben would prefer that I start an anonymous blog for that. Check me out at “The Vagina-mono-blog” Soon!

Just kidding, that wouldn’t be anonymous now would it?