Don't Salt My Game.

Hey team, welcome to Don't Salt My Game. I'm Laura Thomas. I'm a registered nutritionist,

director of London Center for Enchase of Eating, an author of Just Eat It, as well as my new book,

How to Just Eat It. We're here having conversations with game changers in nutrition and health,

food, body liberation, and some other

things thrown in for shits. In this episode, we're talking about chapter three, getting to know

your hunger. If you've been following prescriptive meal plans or used to letting the clock dictate

when you eat, then it can be hard to start to let your body guide you towards meals and snacks.

You might also have used things like diet drinks, teas and so-called appetite suppressant products

to artificially stave off hunger and maybe you have no idea what the sensations of hunger feel like for you.

Hunger is a primal need. Without it, animals wouldn't survive. But diet culture

teaches us that our appetites can't be trusted and that we need to try and control them or trick

them into submission with foods that are unsatisfying or even go to bed early to avoid feeling hungry.

It's no wonder then that we are fearful of feelings of hunger and go out of our way to avoid feeling hungry. It's no wonder then that we are fearful of feelings of hunger

and go out of our way to avoid feeling them. But hunger sensations are actually your body's way

of communicating a really important message that your body needs food. You're not just thirsty.

You don't need to try and resist for a certain amount of time before

eating or pop a diet pill. You need to eat. In the first part of this episode, I'm talking with

Alamata Tal about why we're so fearful of hunger and how to make peace with those internal

cues to guide us towards how much and when to eat. Then I'm back to share a

helpful visualization that you can use to check in with how hungry you are before another

definition for your glossary from Jess Sprengle. But first let's talk to Ollie. Olly Tal is an

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