- Dr Helen McCarthy believes that we can ‘retrain’ our appetites to lose weight
- The author has created an appetite pendulum which shows a hunger scale
- The pendulum swings into minus when we’re hungry and plus when we eat
- If we stop eating when we’re full, and don’t over eat, we can shed the pounds
- Plain foods like broccoli can taste ‘out of this world’ when we are hungry
A weight loss psychologist has created an appetite pendulum – which can help you to recognise how much food your body actually needs, in order to lose weight without dieting.
Dr Helen McCarthy, based in Bristol, told Femail that we’ve all been trained to eat at certain times, rather than when we’re hungry and we overeat when we don’t need to.
The author, reveals in her new book How To Retrain Your Appetite, that the appetite pendulum starts at 0 when your hunger is neutral and swings into minus when you’re hungry and plus when you start to eat.
She believes that you shouldn’t start eating until your hunger gets to minus 3, which signifies when you’re ‘definitely hungry’ and you should stop when you are ‘just full’ at plus 3.