Been There, Done That

What is my relationship to hunger? What do I think, fear, wish, judge about hunger? What do I believe about hunger? How do I try to manipulate hunger? Write anything that comes to mind. My relationship status with hunger is "it's complicated." It has been complicated for a long, long time, though I suppose it wasn't always that way. I think I remember just being hungry or happily full as a child, but it's a little hazy. In the years between now and then, I've starved and then filled myself to what I feared was the point of popping. I've been all over the place with my appetite, how I view it, and what I have thought is acceptable. I think, now, that being hungry, or full, or even overfull, are all normal on the appetite spectrum, or at least, I understand that logically these feelings are on the appetite spectrum. I still have days where I wished I wasn't so hungry, and days when I ignore my empty/full cues, and either skip meals or just shove foo...

Well, to be honest, I guess no one said this intuitive eating/f*ck it eating lifestyle would be easy. I've been tempted by the wolf in sheep's clothing of diets more than once.  It is not easy to undo nearly half a century of programming. And let me tell you, I have been really, really tempted by diets, even going so far as to plan them in my head. I haven't done any of them, mind you, because it's just so much work, and I like food, and I don't like restriction. I did not make a New Year's resolution to lose weight. What I did do was decide that I might like to feel healthier and more balanced, so I'll work toward that. What that looks like is this: I am making three micro-resolutions each month, one for home, one for health, one for other. Focusing on small steps for a month at a time makes it much more manageable, much more doable. "They" say it takes 21 days to build a new habit, so by giving these micro-resolutions a month,  I should be...