When the pounds pile on the additional weight gain contributes towards not just the potential for heart disease and diabetes, but also an oestrogen imbalance making menopause symptoms more obvious.

I’d like to share with you a really simple yet powerful tip to help stop you over-eating.
I know it to be really powerful, and it just takes a few seconds of thought to apply.

THE HUNGER SCALE

1. Starving – ravenous, weak, irritable
2. Uncomfortably hungry
3. Very hungry – “I’m ready to eat now”
4. A little hungry
5. Not full but tot that hungry either – “My mind is on things other than food.”
6. Satisfied and feeling light – “I could eat more but…”
7. Comfortable but slightly too full
8. Very full – “I ate more than I needed.”
9. Too full – Feeling heavy and uncomfortable
10. Christmas Dinner full – “I’m going to be sick!!

HOW TO USE THE HUNGER SCALE

DON’T WAIT until No. 1 (Starving, ravenous) or No. 2 (uncomfortably hungry) to start eating. You’re likely to eat ANYTHING and EVERYTHING you can get your hands on with little or no thought. Be totally out of control.

START EATING at No. 3 (Very hungry – “I’m ready to eat now.”)
You need to feel some hunger pangs but still have control over what you will eat. So don’t wait till you’re starving, irritable, dizzy, and shaky. If you do, you’re probably going to regret it when you step on the scales or when the sleepless nights and hot flushes increase!

STOP EATING at No. 6 (Satisfied and feeling light — “I could eat more but…”)
You could eat more, but if you did, you’d lose that lovely feeling of lightness and probably end up bloated, your clothes uncomfortable and tight.
That’s because it takes about 20 minutes after you’ve eaten for your brain’s satiety signals to kick in. If you leave the table when you’re nearly full, 20 minutes later you will feel full, but not overly so.

If you stop eating when you’re a little too full (No. 7), you’re going to feel very full 20 minutes later. In just those few minutes you go from feeling fine to feeling so big you have to loosen your belt!

Don’t Starve, and Don’t Stuff! Stay in THE HUNGER SCALE range of No. 3 to No. 6

Your menopause hormones,  body and health will love you for this!

Clare ????

Helping busy ladies naturally create harmony and  health through the menopause years and beyond.  Regain control, confidence, and be free to live the life they choose.

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A full hysterectomy in her 30s led nutritional therapist and health coach Clare on an amazing adventure exploring the many opportunities available to manage her enforced menopause and create long-term health.