Are you eating enough?
Katerina Pavlakis 
Your body craves nourishment
Have you ever noticed how quickly you get hungry after a fast food meal?
Fast food is (in)famously cheap, filling, and deceptively tasty...
Our taste buds (and perception of convenience) are easily fooled by artificial enhancers and clever marketing ploys, but our body won't be tricked for long.
Soon it realises that the meal was empty and unsatisfying, and we get hungry again - for what we really crave is nourishment.
We are craving the positive, yet so often define our relationship with food by the negatives: all the things we shouldn't eat, and all the stuff we had 'too much' of.
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How about we flip that story for a moment:
Are you eating enough? Enough of the good stuff? Enough of the foods that will nourish your body and satisfy your appetite, beyond that quick fix meal or snack?
If you eat more of the good stuff, you'll automatically crave less of the empty stuff.
Stop thinking calories and start thinking quality.
How nutrient-rich is the food you are about to eat? And how can you add even more?
You don't necessarily need to completely change what you eat. To get started, think about adding rather than removing: make it your aim to fortify your meals with more 'good stuff (high quality protein and good fats).
Add seeds to your cereal, chopped nuts to your cake, a tin of fish to your salad, a sliced egg to your toast. Dip your fruit in peanut butter, add peas to your rice, lentils to your pasta sauce, and tahini to your stir fry sauce. Swap your chocolate for a bar that's just a few degrees darker.
You'll find yourself satisfied for longer, your cravings less urgent, your hunger less frequent.
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Because your body knows when it's been nourished.
Eat more to eat less.
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