Thoughts of losing weight and hunger go hand in hand . No one wants to feel "deprived". But understanding how hunger works can give you useful tools to lose weight.

Hunger and Losing Weight Video

What Happens When We Get Hungry?

People are scared of hunger.

We live in this fear of not the be hungry.

But what really happens when we get hungry?

When the body gets hungry, our body begins to use its fat deposits as a fuel source. So being hungry is not necessarily a bad thing.

Tune into Your Hunger with the Hunger Scale

What I recommend is to tune into your hunger and really understand why you are eating.

Think about hunger with having a scale from 0 to 10 with 10 being I'm totally full and stuffed, 0 being I'm perfectly fine and -10 as I'm absolutely ravenous. 

You want to be eating from -2 to 2. You're not waiting until you are totally ravenous and equally not eating until you are totally stuffed.

You want to eat until you are no longer hungry - until you are...