At the start of February, I decided to switch from three cups of coffee a day to decaf coffee only. My sleep had been consistently terrible and it was the one thing I hadn’t ever given up. Even though I had my caffeine before noon, I had a hunch it was still affecting me at night. It turns out, after a month of low-caffeine and deeper sleep than I’d experienced in months, my hunch was correct.

Rediscovering how hunger presents itself in our own bodies can be a journey and take some time. For many of us, we’ve relied on the clock to tell us when to be hungry or when to eat-- and especially when NOT to eat. It’s easy to allow outside cues to tell you how to feel on the inside. We’ve been taught not to trust our own bodies and to push past when we feel hungry. This is not your fault! The messaging is incessant.