Types of hunger you should know

What most people identify as hunger has three main components: emotionally-driven cravings, conditioned hunger, and physiological hunger.

Emotionally driven cravings

Anyone looking to lose weight will testify to that feeling, sad, angry, bored, lonely, guilty, anxious, or depressed, rather than overeating from hunger. They use food to reduce these unpleasant feelings, rather than experiencing them. It is important to identify these feelings, experience them, and deal with their source, rather than masking them with food.

Conditioned hunger

What is usually considered as physiological feelings of hunger that are actually made up of two elements, conditioned hunger, and purely physiological hunger? Conditional hunger, rather than physiological hunger, is what causes most of the feelings that people identify as real hunger. However, it is easy to demonstrate that these feelings of hunger are learned rather than purely physiological.

The feelings of hunger are extinguished when you focus on them while you are on the CAER machine, after which you no longer feel hungry. FALL could only eradicate these sensations if they were learned, instead of being purely physiological. Additionally, people who do long fasts report that hunger pangs dramatically weaken after about 3 days. Not following the feelings of hunger when eating also extinguishes them.
Conditional hunger is what requires willpower at the beginning of a diet. FALL removes it so that one is simply not hungry. diabetes to lose weight

Conditional hunger results from following feelings of hunger when eating. Any behavior followed by a reinforcer is more likely to happen again in the future. This means that following the common social axiom of eating when you are hungry increases the frequency and intensity of feelings of hunger. This forms a vicious circle that trains stronger and more frequent feelings of hunger, stimulating more food and more hunger, etc.

• Research on weight loss from conditioned hunger

Conditional hunger is supported by classic psychological research by Ivan Pavlov, a Russian psychologist who worked in the early 20th century.

Pavlov rang a bell and then fed dog food. After some testing, the bell produced increased salivation before food was presented. After a while, he discovered that just introducing the bell, without following it with food, increased salivation. Since salivation is a good physiological measure of hunger, Pavlov conditioned hunger in the dog.

Thinking about certain foods "will make your mouth water," that is, it will salivate. The thoughts and images of the meal are analogous to Pavlov's bell. Our demonstrations of salivation conditioned hunger on these images. FALLING extinguishes the response of hunger to food images, whether real or imagined. weightloss

Physiological Hunger

In western countries, where there is an adequate food supply, the experience of physiological hunger is largely unknown to the majority of the population. It is a much weaker sensation than emotional desire or conditioned hunger. However, it can be difficult to discriminate from the first two. Physiological hunger is often experienced as a feeling of weakness or lethargy, rather than the more common feeling of feeling hungry in the stomach.

Physiological hunger at a level that most normally nourished people is usually not very uncomfortable and is easily satiated with a small amount of food. Eating regularly scheduled small meals is the best way to get the nutrition you need.