When You Never Feel Full

This post is in response to a reader's question on my post "Top 10 Lame Excuses Why You Can't Lose Weight". Generally speaking, never feeling full is a sign that you have dissociated from your body - you are numb to some extent to the sensations in your body. This is actually quite common, especially among those who are significantly overweight.

In this case, the key is to re-associate into the body. This may require healing old wounds and learning that the body can be a pleasant place to hang out.

I had one client recently who never felt full, or hungry for that matter. She ate by the clock, she ate for distraction, she ate for entertainment, and she gained weight. Because she has fibromyalgia, she had connected feeling anything in her body with feeling the pain of fibromyalgia. In fact, she associated exercise with feeling her body, i.e. pain, and so could never work up the motivation to exercise consistently.

Once she realized that feeling her body didn't have to mean feeling pain, she started exercising regularly and dramatically improved her diet. We did this by applying techniques from Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and with EFT.