u/becoming_beluga

(heads up: this post mentions apps. if that's not your thing, feel free to skip!)

I posted here a few weeks ago about only catching my fullness cues after eating, never during. Since then I bought the book and started reading — I'm now 2 weeks in.

But the same problem keeps repeating. I genuinely don't know what hunger feels like. I start eating and just zone out — by the time I snap back, everything's gone. I keep forgetting to ask myself "am I still hungry? do I even like this?" and even when I remember, it feels so awkward and unnatural.

I tried Recovery Record after someone recommended it in the comments, but it only logs after meals — which doesn't really solve my problem. What I need is something that switches off the autopilot while I'm eating. Like someone sitting next to me, asking questions the whole time.

I know apps and IE don't really mix. Tracking anything can easily slide into diet-brain territory. But for someone like me who's completely disconnected from body signals, I wonder if having an external nudge — something that says "hey, quick check-in" — might actually help.

So I've been running a small experiment on my own app:

• Before eating: am I actually hungry? how am I feeling right now?
• Mid-meal: still enjoying this? starting to feel full? (with an alarm to make me pause mid-meal)
• After eating: was that satisfying?

No calories — just questions about how my body feels, based on the IE book and workbook.

Honest question for those of you further along in IE: does this kind of check-in actually make sense from an IE perspective? Or does structured check-ins just become another form of control?

Still very much a beginner, so I'd really love to hear from people who've been doing this longer.

Hi, I'm a newbie who just picked up the book and started reading it.

I'm on the part about honoring your hunger and recognizing fullness signals — the idea that you need to tune into your body's cues in the moment, so you can notice when you're comfortably satisfied rather than overstuffed.

The book talks about pausing mid-meal to check in: Am I still hungry? What does satisfied actually feel like right now? Makes total sense. But here's where I keep getting stuck — I always seem to notice after the fact. Like, I'll finish eating and then realize, oh, I think I went past satisfied a while ago. The check-in just... doesn't happen while I'm actually eating.

So I'm wondering — did anyone else go through this at the beginning?
That feeling of "I only catch it after, never during"?

And for those who've been practicing for a while:

did you use any kind of tracking or journaling when you first started?

I feel like writing things down might help me actually build the awareness — but I also wonder if that just turns into another form of diet-brain. Curious how others have approached things like:

• journaling or logging meals
• reminders or check-ins during the day
• apps that helped (or didn't)
• or just letting it develop naturally over time

Would love to hear how people actually got started. No pressure for a "right answer" — just genuinely curious what worked for real people.

I was a pretty heavy Claude Code user.
But GPT-5.5 coding honestly surprised me way more than I expected.

Now I’m basically doing most of my development in Codex.

Question is:
are people using Codex raw/vanilla,
or is OMX (oh-my-codex) basically mandatory at this point?

Feels like the tooling ecosystem around Codex is evolving super fast.