True hunger is not felt in the stomach or the head. When you eat healthfully and don't overeat, you eventually are able to sense true hunger and accurately assess your caloric needs. Once your body attains a certain level of better health, you will begin to feel the difference between true hunger and just eating due to desire, boredom, stress, or withdrawal symptoms. The best way to understand true hunger is to experience it for yourself. It has three primary characteristics:
1. A sensation in your throat
2. Increased salivation
3. A dramatically heightened taste sensation
Being in touch with true hunger will help you reach your ideal weight, and you also will feel well whether you eat, delay eating or skip a meal.
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