Optimal Health Daily - Fitness and Nutrition 3312: Learn How to Tune in to Your Hunger and Fullness Cues by Crystal Karges on Intuitive Eating
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Mar 2, 2026 Crystal Karges, a writer and nutrition/health content creator, explains how dieting can scramble natural hunger and fullness signals. She uses a broken-gauge car metaphor and toddler behavior to show innate cues. The conversation covers rebuilding trust in the body, using mindfulness and sensory awareness while eating, and rediscovering pleasure to become more intuitive around food.
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Old Blue Dashboard Fix Illustrates Broken Internal Gauges
- Crystal Karges recounts driving an old Ford Taurus called Old Blue with unreliable gauges and windshield wipers that stopped during a storm.
- She and her sister resorted to hitting the dashboard repeatedly to make the wipers work, illustrating temporary fixes for malfunctioning systems.
Hunger Cues Are Like A Car's Gauges
- Karges compares human hunger and fullness cues to a car's gauges that signal internal needs for survival.
- When those internal controls are disrupted, our sense of when and how much to eat becomes unreliable.
Dieting Distorts Natural Hunger Signals
- Dieting, chronic restriction, and weight cycling can distort or damage hunger and fullness signals.
- Karges likens this to driving with a broken odometer or gas gauge, making it hard to trust bodily signals.