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You’re Not Hungry, You’re Hurting — How Gratitude Can Heal

26 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Utkarsh Narang explains how to interrupt overeating by recognizing cravings aren't really about food. The actual hunger is for pleasure, which gratitude can access more directly than eating. He suggests returning to your personal pleasure ladder, a ranked list of activities that genuinely satisfy you.

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This is a gratitude practice that completely changes us as we're integrating whatever meal we're having. So the second thing is, again, let's say a person feels like overeating. I could so get into that head. You're experiencing pleasure and you just want to keep going. The person can say to themselves, if I have 95 more spoonfuls of this ice cream, Will I then feel full? You know you won't. So that line is very, very helpful because then you realize in that moment, it's not the ice cream I need. It is the pleasure that I'm seeking. And the only way to experience real pleasure— —pleasure is through gratitude. So, so it completely changes it. And then you say to yourself, okay, then I will return to my pleasure ladder.