Understanding Your Hunger & Fullness on a GLP-1

A useful scale to understand the spectrum of your new appetite

It’s not unusual for people who have struggled with obesity most of their lives to have an unhelpful or complicated relationship with the concept of Hunger and Fullness. For many of us, we only ever knew it as opposite sides of a coin - starving or stuffed. Many of us were team #cleanplateclub since childhood! But once we have started on GLP-1 Medications we may no longer ever feel “starving” and so it’s a little hard to know “am I hungry or no?” This is part of why I typically recommend planning for 3 scheduled, balanced meals a day, regardless of your perception of hunger - especially in the beginning of your journey or if you are losing weight super quickly! But what about snacks? What about portion sizes? This is where getting a handle on how you are experiencing hunger and fullness can be really helpful!

Here in this post is a “Hunger and Fullness Scale” I created for my upcoming book. This is not a tool with which to make a decision (eat or don’t eat). This is simply a scoring mechanism for your experience of hunger and fullness. Your decision to eat might involve many other factors in addition to how you think you feel. I often tell people, if you feel hungry on a GLP-1 you probably actually are! And you should eat! I know - it can be hard to learn to trust your perception of appetite, especially if it was so unreliable or failed you all these years.