To lose weight and keep it off, we need to have the skill of differentiating between 1) hunger, 2) a desire to eat and 3) cravings. Beck defines these states as: Hunger: when you’ve fasted for several hours and your stomach is empty and may be rumbling; A desire to eat: not being particularly hungry but eating because there is food around, like wanting seconds or dessert after a meal; Craving: physiological and emotionally intense urge to eat, tension and yearning in your mouth, throat or body. Know the difference between the three – your success depends on it. And chances are, if we struggle with weight, we don’t really know yet. Today’s exercise will sharpen our ability to differentiate between hunger, desire and cravings, and know when it is truly time to eat. We start by rating our hunger on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0=no hunger and 10=the hungriest you have ever felt. Today, we will do this four times whenever we eat: 1) right before we sta...