With this scale, you can rate how hungry you are numerically and then eat based on the number. It quantifies your feeling. It changes a subjective, kind of vague account to something real. It also lets you detach from your hunger a little instead of giving in to cravings. I have bipolar, as I've pointed out before. I am often craving food due to my meds. However, the craving never gets beyond a "4". Once it's at a 3 I'll eat. I changed it a little so that "3" = "very hungry, but not famished" and "2" = "very hungry AND famished/feeling weak." In a sense I wait until I'm at a 2 because I often have false hunger cues with my medications. This is helpful though. It makes eating more of a science than a shame-based behavior. So far I've gone from 218 pounds to 211 pounds in about three weeks. I do many other things for diet, but the hunger scale is clearly one of the most effective. I highly recommend it.
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