Dr. Jason Fung

But you have to understand why it is.

But yeah, absolutely.

I think that even if it's healthy, even if it's everything, like there are still reasons why you're eating it, right?

And that's, you know, you have to understand what sort of

Is it just that you're used to doing it and that's why you're doing it?

Like, why are you taking that extra bit, right?

That's the real question, right?

That's the underlying fundamental reason.

Because if you weren't hungry, physically, the homeostatic hunger, then what is it that that extra food is doing for you?

You know, there often are these sort of hidden traps, if you will.

Because, like, there was this book that was written a few years ago called Hunger by Roxane Gay, terrific writer.

And she describes her weight journey, and she was like 500 pounds.

And she realizes by, you know, very soon that it's a, you know, she wants to be big because she thinks it's going to keep her safe because she had some childhood sexual trauma.

It's like, okay, well, that's very, very interesting because now you've identified the underlying issue and why you're eating.

So no amount of advice to eat less or, you know, take less olive oil or take, you know, that's not going to help because that was never the problem, right?

You got to identify the problem.

and then deal with it.

So the hunger is not this singular thing.

It's sort of, there's at least three different types.

And I think that's where we have to start developing that conversation to get away from the, okay, there's calories here and that's the whole reason.