Using Hunger Fullness Scale to Monitor Your Eating Habits

When you on a diet and find it hard to keep measuring every food for its calories content, you might want to try using Hunger Fullness Scale instead. It’s a very simple method to monitor your eating habits and keep extra calories from enter your body.

The rule is, you only eat when you start to notice a sensation in your stomach and stop when you began to feel satisfied. “Satisfied” is when you began to feel a little bulk in your stomach, you may mentally want to keep eating, but your stomach is feeling satisfied so you eat slower and chew your food well. In many cases your stomach may not send signal to your brain as quickly as it should as far as your hunger and fullness sensation are occurring. It usually takes between 10 and 20minutes for your hunger feeling to reach your brain signal, so you want to try eat slowly when apply hunger fullness scale.

Also, you don’t want in a condition when you're extremely hungry or full. You want to be in an area in the middle:

• Starting at when you start to feel hungry, this is when you have first or second thought, a feeling like your stomach is a little empty and you feel like you want something to eat.

• End when you start to feel the sensation of feeling bulk in your stomach, you may feel like you want to eat just a little bit more, but you go ahead and stop here, because it can takes 10 to 20mins to tell your body that you full, so leaving that what you might think as room in your stomach may get you to the point where you need to be at.