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Mihaela Bilic spoke at Digi24 about how we manage appetite and hunger. The nutritionist says that “there are things that happen at the body level, but not at the mental level.”
Cosmin Prelipceanu, Digi24 journalist: How do you manage appetite and hunger?
Mihaela Bilic, nutritionist: It has a lot to do with psychology. Attention, I didn’t know either, I didn’t study in medical school. So, I can say that this psychonutrition not only loved me, but it changed my life, confirming things that I felt instinctively.
The appetite is one – and you realize that being fed up, if you see an appetizing food is appetite and you would eat it, while hunger is an extremely matter – I would say prosaic -, unbearable. Hunger is a terrible and humiliating thing that corrodes your being. I mean, it’s degrading. We, the people of Europe in the 21st century, have no chance of feeling it again.
I encourage people to find out exactly how they feel hungry, but they are surprised to find that they have not felt it in a long time and that things happen in the body, but not in the mind.
Lust is more induced by the mind, lust is very much induced by the visual, and that is why, even when we try to stay away from food a bit, we must avoid everything related to the visual, the olfactory.
It is enough to go through a bakery, smell fresh bread and in that second we want to eat, even if we are full. Lust is something that arises from emotion.
It has been many years in which nutritionists have created this terrible negative notion, this preventive diet, that is, they have told us that it is not good to wait until you are hungry, eat at set times, not skip meals.
No way. This preventive feeding has caused a disaster at the population level. People learned to ignore their hunger and began to eat, “because they should.”
Satiety can be easily ignored, hunger cannot.
In this context, people have not asked whether they are hungry or not. They started eating “because they should.”
“I eat breakfast because I have heard that it is the most important meal of the day.” “I eat sandwiches” – as if we were babies growing up – “so that no more than 3 hours go by”, “because who knows what can happen to me if I’m a little hungry”.
And then we have to do all this work to reconnect our being with the sensations of food, to learn what hunger is, that nothing happens if we are hungry, but, on the contrary, we have to train our hunger, tolerance to hunger , so that to satisfy you only when you reach an intensity of 5-6, on a scale of up to 10.
We do not have to eat at the first feeling of hunger, we have to wait another hour, an hour and a half for that signal and we will be surprised to see that little feeling of hunger disappear.
Nature has not allowed us to forget the feeling of hunger. Without worries! You don’t get a chance to say, “I forgot to eat and I starved.” No!
Publisher: Liviu Cojan
