The great Hunger Lie

Jun 03, 2015

Today as I was munching on some macadamia nuts for a snack, I became keenly aware that I was still munching and that I was no longer hungry. Yet I did not stop. I am not sure about you but I have rarely in my life eaten for hunger, in the old days I ate so much and so often I never experienced hunger. After my RNY it was a good long time before I felt hungry again. I realize that even now, my connection to my hunger is complicated. These days I am often hungry when I eat, but it takes so little to get rid of that feeling. I rarely stop to check in with myself and ask am I still hungry? I just eat until I am done. Today I asked myself am I still hungry I said no...so then I asked the head hunger...what do you need? Why are we still eating? It clearly told me, you cannot trust yourself, you are still hungry, you cannot trust yourself so you must eat until it is gone. I then asked it why I could not trust myself? It said simply....because you are always wrong. 

I have been wrong a lot in my life that is for sure, but I never realized what a lie head hunger is. I suppose I have lived most of my life feeling like I cannot trust myself and that I must be over ruled. SO when I am not longer physically hungry and want to stop eating my head says. NO NO NO you cannot trust your judgement...eat until it is gone. Or eat often because you cannot be trusted. 

I realize there is a deep lie in the hunger, there is a limited belief underneath it. I am using Tapping to identify and release the limiting beliefs that are in my way. So I suppose I need to do some tapping on that head hunger and give it permission to go and to trust me to make the right decisions.

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