{"id":1246,"date":"2012-02-06T08:04:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T13:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondgorgeous\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2012-01-31T09:19:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T14:19:03","slug":"hunger-secrets-how-to-use-hunger-to-stay-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondgorgeous\/2012\/02\/hunger-secrets-how-to-use-hunger-to-stay-thin.html","title":{"rendered":"Hunger Secrets &#8212; How to Use Hunger to Stay Thin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped in front of a storefront at the mall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondgorgeous\/files\/2012\/01\/207166_10150566829270537_758175536_18018906_565319_n14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1247\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/261\/2012\/01\/207166_10150566829270537_758175536_18018906_565319_n14-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u201cOh, look!\u201d I said. \u201cThey\u2019ve put in one of those ice cream places we\u2019ve seen advertised.\u00a0 Let\u2019s try it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll get you something if you want,\u201d my naturally-thin husband, Paul, replied. \u201cI\u2019m not hungry right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not hungry?\u00a0 What does that have to do it?\u00a0 This is the special, creamy, yummy ice cream we\u2019re talking about.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to be hungry to enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>And there, folks, you have a living example of the disconnect between naturally thin folks and naturally fluffy ones. \u00a0Thin people eat because their bodies tell them it is time for nourishment. And they are in the habit of listening to their bodies.\u00a0The rest of us eat for a variety of reasons, but hunger isn\u2019t the main one.\u00a0 We eat because we are bored, stressed, or sad.\u00a0 Or because food is available. In fact, we get so separated from the hunger factor that we often can\u2019t tell whether we are actually hungry or not.<\/p>\n<p>Thin people also <em>stop<\/em> eating when they are no longer hungry.\u00a0 The rest of us eat until we are stuffed or the food is gone, whichever comes first.<\/p>\n<p>What can we learn from naturally thin folks?\u00a0 We can learn patience as we endeavor not to physically harm those aggravating folks &#8211;those wretched people who say, \u201cOh, I lost five pounds since I last stepped on a scale. Wonder how that happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only one who has been in a do-or-die struggle with weight and lost five pounds after a month of effort can appreciate the true cruelty of that statement!<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, what do those thin folks do that we can do, too? \u00a0An old book I found in my bookcase titled <em>The 7 Secrets of Slim People<\/em> by Vikki Hansen and Shawn Goodman has some good points about this topic.\u00a0 I don\u2019t agree with all their premises, but they got this one right.\u00a0<strong> <em>Thin people eat only to satisfy physical hunger.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll talk about hunger &#8212; how to use it and how to control it &#8212; in the next few posts.<\/p>\n<p>Eating to live and living for Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Susan Jordan Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped in front of a storefront at the mall. \u201cOh, look!\u201d I said. \u201cThey\u2019ve put in one of those ice cream places we\u2019ve seen advertised.\u00a0 Let\u2019s try it.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll get you something if you want,\u201d my naturally-thin husband, Paul, replied. \u201cI\u2019m not hungry right now.\u201d Not hungry?\u00a0 What does that have to do it?\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[87,90,88,363,15],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating-plan","tag-ghrelin","tag-hunger","tag-leptin","tag-naturally-thin","tag-weight-loss"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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