Hidden Hungers & the B.E.A.S.T

Originally posted in Moxie Memoirs on 10/13/2017

As I have tried to dig through the mess of the last three years, and perhaps find some good resources to pass on to friends and clients, I stumbled on the work of Dr. Melissa McCreery and her website.  There has been WAY too much on my plate for multiple years, and to be honest the last three were the tipping point.  They took everything I had learned about health and fitness, boxed it up and shoved it in the back of my mental closet where I didn’t have to face the incongruity of my life of a health professional with an unhealthy physical and mental state.  Some days I felt like I had been living someone else’s life.   Since changing some habits and getting my brain to function better, I am able to step back and see the how the severity of what I was going through led to where I was.

Dr. McCreery’s BEAST info-graphic was like a freakish road map to my unplanned,

emotional, haphazard eating habits. I was hungry for something that could not be satisfied with food – no matter how sweet or crunchy.  Grief is heavy, and I had found tasty ways to avoid it.  I was exhausted, and sometimes food would provide a little energy to get me through the day.

Over the last month I have tried to really decipher what I am hungry for.  Dr. McCreery outlines 5 hidden hungers that can’t be addressed with food.  I took her quiz and a was pretty even in all 5 areas – more proof that I am filling my belly for hungers in my soul.