The hunger tracker can help to keep you balanced and manage your eating without end up too hungry or too full.

1. *Extremely weak
2. *hunger raging
3 hungry
4 Slightly hungry
5 Neutral
6 Satisfied and full
7 Past Full
8 *Bloated
9 *Uncomfortably stuffed
10 *Feeling physically sick
* ---- red zones

It is important not allow yourself to get into the red zones.

It is very easy to end up in level 1 and 2 when you have been dieting. If you have been restricting your food you may end up extremely hungry, this will cause you to eat alot faster and more food than if you had stayed between the warning zones.

Hunger signals 1-2
You will eat a lot faster,
High-risk territory of eating ‘past full’ and dramatically increasing the risk to end up in 'overstuffed territory'.

Due to you being so hungry, powerful messages to EAT override your natural eating system. This increases your chance of eating anything in sight. You have weakened your intuition because any type of fuel becomes vital at that stage.

It is important to listen to when your body is telling you to eat, by understanding the first stage of hunger can help you to slow down and make decisions on what it is your body really wants.

By following the Hunger Tracker you can stay within a balanced hunger state. This helps to get you fully back in touch with your body and helps to maintain this normal eating pattern.

Range 1-2 are warning zones and are to be avoided, because you are so hungry you will seek out any food available, make you eat too fast and puts you at high risk of feeling stuffed full.

Between ranges 3-5 are your safety zones, here you are able to listen well to what your body is telling you and are more likely to be able to determine what it is you really feel like. When you stay between these zones you are also more likely to eat slower and can get more in touch with your body's signals.

'Full and satisfied' at full and satisfied zone you should be experiencing comfort and satisfaction. Hunger urges may have disappeared by now - if not perhaps wait 20 minutes then re-assess.

'Past Full' is a slightly uncomfortable feeling in your stomach, you may have been too hungry and ate too quickly, remember it takes 20 minutes for your hunger signal to be sent to the brain. It is normal to eat past full occasionally, developing an awareness can help keep you balanced.

'Bloated' this is a warning zone and it means you are eating way past you are full, you will feel bloated and uncomfortable.

'Stuffed full' The alarm bells are ringing loudly, you have eating until you are very uncomfortable, your stomach can no longer hold anymore food. See the binge blocker tool to help prevent you entering this zone in the future