I was having a conversation yesterday with my mum about eating. She was concerned that I wasn't eating enough and I told her I simply wasn't hungry. It's true. I never feel hungry enough to eat anything. Well according to my mother she never feels hungry either and neither do most people...
So wait, stop just a second, normal people don't feel hungry? How do they know when to eat? All this time I've assumed that feeling hungry was synonomous with having an appetite. Apparently there's a difference that I never knew about. From what I can gather, most people eat throughout the day at certain times on point of habit and after a while their body expects food at those times and this is appetite. Appetite is more about looking forward to eating and hunger is like a warning signal from your body telling you that it needs food ASAP. If it were up to me I'd still be leaving it until I were hungry. So perhaps the signs that my body gives me are not obvious. I've been expecting it to shout really loud so that there's no mistaking what it wants, but perhaps it's more like a whisper? Perhaps I have to actively listen to it instead of expecting it to do all the work?
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