Are you sure you're hungry?

Are you hungry or are you thirsty? Are you hungry or are you bored? Are you hungry or are you tired? And if you are hungry, have you tried ignoring it? What are you, a human that needs food to live?

“I don’t know why I’m so hungry, I just ate.” This is the start of a conversation that I once had with a coworker. Here’s the setting: it was about 11:00 AM, and we had just come out of a 2-hour meeting. On our way back to our cubicles, my coworker held her hands over her stomach, saying that she felt her stomach growling. This was before I was a dietit…