{"id":303,"date":"2009-02-02T19:15:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T19:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/2009\/02\/janice-dr-norris-weigh-in-what.html"},"modified":"2009-02-02T19:15:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T19:15:47","slug":"janice-dr-norris-weigh-in-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2009\/02\/janice-dr-norris-weigh-in-what.html","title":{"rendered":"Janice & Dr. Norris Weigh-In: What are YOU hungry for?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"janice<\/span>Hey Y’all …. Dr. Norris Chumley<\/a> and this blogger<\/a> were chatting last week on the phone (yup, on the phone – tre retro!)<\/em>, and we thought it would be fun to dish the dirt, chew the fat, blog-to-blog from time-to-time. You know, toss a topic back n’ forth.
\nDr. Norris kicked off our first “blog-O-sation” with What are YOU hungry for? <\/a>
\nAnd now … drum roll please … my response!
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\nWhen I was a kid, my grandmother lived with us. She was a very large woman – 300 pounds, at least – and she was very hungry, all the time!! She visited the refrigerator early and often (it was her primary form of exercise – actually, it was her only form of exercise).<\/em>
\nAnd to be perfectly honest, it was a bone of contention between my mother and grandmother. With each and every visit to the fridge, my mother asked in an exasperated fashion, “What are you looking for?”
\nMy grandmother snapped back, “I’m hungry.”
\n“Hungry for what?” my mother continued. “You couldn’t possibly be hungry. You had a steak sandwich 1\/2 an hour ago.” And so it went …
\nIt was pretty clear that my grandmother wasn’t hungry for food. Needless to say, the question never got answered, but it was something that stayed with me and proved useful in my weight loss journey. (I am a master of making lemonade out of lemons<\/a>!)<\/em>
\nI even made a card and put it on my fridge (you can download here, if you like, for your fridge). “hungry for?.pdf<\/a><\/span>?”
\nNow, when I ask myself “What are YOU hungry for?”<\/em> I can answer without reaching for food. That’s progress!
\nAnd right now, in this very moment – what am I hungry for? Actually, starving for???<\/p>\n