Module 2: Session 3

Tips and Tricks to Stopping When Satisfied

Video #1: Leaving Food on Your Plate

Video #2: How Many Meals Should I Eat?

Video #3: Practice Eating Blindfolded

Blindfold Experiment

Eliminating sight, one of your dominant senses, can help you connect into your body to help you FEEL when you are no longer hungry.

 

To plan for this experiment, pick a non-messy meal where you can eat with your fingers blindfolded. When you have determined which meal you will enjoy blindfolded and wait until you are hungry. Then…

  1. Look at your plate of food and determine just how much you typically would eat.
  2. Next, blindfold your eyes, sit down at a table, and eliminate as many distractions as possible.
  3. Take a deep breath.
  4. Begin eating your meal. As you eat, every few bites ask yourself, am I still hungry?
  5. When you feel satisfied and are no longer hungry, stop eating and put a napkin by your plate.
  6. Now take the blindfold off and see how much you ate.

What do you notice? Did you eat more or less? What surprised you?

If you are on Facebook, snap a picture of your meal and share what you noticed about the amount of food you ate. If you’re not on Facebook, write in the notes section below what you noticed. 

Questions to Consider as You Master Satisfaction

1. How does it feel to eat my meals when I’m hungry and stop when I’m satisfied?

 

 

2. How often am I stopping when satisfied?

 

3. How often am I eating past satisfaction?

4. If you’re eating past satisfaction, what seem to be the reasons? 

5. What are some easy and doable practices to make stopping when satisfied easier for me? (Notecard with a reminder, bring my tracking form to work, set a reminder in my phone to remind me to honor my body, reward and recognize myself). 

 

Focus Work for Module 2, Session 3

During the Day – 

  1. Print out this tracking form to explore how you are doing with eating when you are hungry and stopping when you are no longer hungry.
  2. Continue to practice eating when you are hungry and stopping when your body  is no longer hungry and feels satisfied (level 5).
  3. Allow yourself to get curious instead of being critical of your actions.
  4. Enjoy eating one meal blindfolded. If you’re on Facebook, snap a picture of your meal and share with us what the experience is like.
  5. If you are struggling at all with hunger and/or satisfaction, repeat these modules and come to coaching calls so we can help you make this easier. 

In the Evening –

  1. Say or write down the 3 things you are proud of in your journal. Have a great week and check in within the inner circle! 
SPEND TIME MAKING SATISFACTION PART OF YOUR MEALS BEFORE MOVING ON TO THE NEXT MODULE