Struggling to figure out how hungry or full you are? Try using the intuitive eating hunger fullness scale as a tool to help you determine when and how much to eat.The hunger fullness scale is a tool you can utilize to help practice two of the ten principles of intuitive eating – honoring your hunger and feeling your fullness.As a certified intuitive eating counselor, I find it can be a helpful guide to determine just how hungry you are (aka when it’s time to eat) and how full you are (aka when it might be time to stop eating).If you struggle with listening to your body or knowing when you’re actually hungry or full, you’re not alone! There are many reasons why this might be the case (more on that below) but one of the most common reasons I see is that people have lost a connection to their body after years and years of dieting.

Diet culture conditions you to believe that hunger is bad and you should override hunger, and if you can override hunger, congrats – you have SO much willpower! After so many years of overriding your body’s signals, your body stops talking because you’re not listening anyway, right? You begin to lose that interoceptive awareness, the ability to perceive physical sensations that come from within your body, and without proper nourishment, consistency in eating, and body trust, those signals are hard to notice again.That’s where intuitive eating comes in – you can practice challenging diet culture rhetoric, paying attention to what

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