Knowing how to deal with sights and smells of food when you're hungry can also help you feel comfortably full -- not stuffed. In addition to learning how it feels to be hungry, full, and uncomfortably full, you can learn from your mistakes.
If you eat past comfortable fullness, don't berate yourself. There are bound to be times when you eat too much for your body's comfort. Try to remember how eating too much feels and remind yourself of this feeling the next time you are tempted to overeat. With practice, you can change your eating patterns and start eating when your body tells you you're hungry, and stop eating after you've gained a satisfied, energized feeling.
Many of us are also "cue-sensitive" to food: if there are food reminders, we are likely to eat. For example, if we often eat dinner in front of the TV, we are sending ourselves messages to eat each time we sit there, whether we're hungry or not. If this is true for you, try eating only at the dining table. Just the same, when we become stressed, we turn to food for comfort, regardless of whether or not we're really hungry.
