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Factors beyond hunger cause us to eat and overeat. Tuning in to what they are can help you eat the foods you love without overdoing it. This is the first post in a series on how to eat without sabotaging your weight and your health.
A client of mine attended a dinner party with the intention of only nibbling on a few things. But by the time her evening was over, she was stuffed, what she ate seemed a blur, and the food lingered in her stomach, like a rock. Her plan that evening was to eat conservatively: to taste just one of each hors d'oeuvre before dinner. What she hadn't counted on was for "one of each" to mean sampling five fattening hors d'oeuvres—all before sitting down to a four-course meal. Her experience is not unusual.
