Lesson 4
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there”
Congratulations guys, we’re half way through the course already! Welcome to week four. This week we’re discussing something that drastically changed my own perspective on eating: hunger cues and portion control.
So how do these two topics relate exactly? Practicing portion control and mindful eating can help us reclaim our natural hunger cues. Most of us tend to eat in autopilot and ignore our bodies natural prompt to eat.
This week, we want you to hone in on your feelings around eating by implementing these strategies to increase your bodily awareness. Don’t skip meals! Understand your personal bodily cues that signal its time to eat. Make sure you’re eating enough food, but also remember to stop when you feel full and satisfied. Lastly, keep hitting those hydration goals to ensure we AREN'T confusing our hunger cues for dehydration! Eating consistently throughout the day with proper amounts of food is the best way to regulate these hunger cues! We have shared our favourite simple portion control tricks to keep you on track! Mindful eating is an advanced topic that is vast and deeply interesting. Keep in mind this is just brushing the surface to get you thinking about your eating habits! We will elaborate on this in a more advanced course!
Things To Remember
Fill out your daily check-in form each day, as well as a weekly recap each Saturday before noon!
Each lesson topic will have a daily or weekly challenge (sometimes both!). You don’t have to master these all at once.
Remember our goal with these challenges is to have you integrating these habits into your daily and weekly routines.
Try your best but be honest about whether you’ve completed the challenges or not- this is only hindering your own success because we will not be able to offer you additional help and resources!
Challenges to Turn Into Habits
HUNGER CUES Challenge
WEEKLY: We want you to get in touch with your hunger cues this week. Practice self-awareness when you eat and honour your body with nutritious foods when you do feel hungry. Identify what signs indicate to you that you are hungry/need to eat! Tell us in your weekly recap.
DAILY: Make breakfast a habit every day within 90 minutes of waking up! This will break your overnight fast and help regulate your appetite throughout the day. P.S. please remember to keep drinking a large glass of water with every meal!! Tell us how you did in your daily check in.
