Because you embrace the experience of hunger and the food preferences that arise from it, you thoroughly enjoy satisfying your hunger. When the time comes to provide your body with what it needs, nothing is more important. You give the matter your full attention. You don't let yourself be distracted by competing activities, or avert your attention out of shame. You focus single-mindedly on satisfying your hunger and enjoying every step of the process. Because you savor every bite of your food, you rarely overeat by accident. You experience the way each bite is moving you away from hunger and toward satisfaction. You can pinpoint the exact moment when your body has had enough. Truly relishing your food enables you to be satisfied with less. Instead of bolting down a pint of ice cream, your attention wandering, your enjoyment dulled by self-reproach, you fully experience the sweetness, the creaminess, the melting in the mouth. From a half cup of ice cream you derive more gratification than overeaters get from bolting down the entire carton.
