Hungry or Just Thirsty? The 15-Minute Water Test

That 'I am hungry' feeling is not always hunger. Sometimes it is thirst wearing hunger's clothes. This is not the 'drink water to fill your stomach before a meal' trick. That is a different article, and it uses water as a filler. This one is about a signal mix-up. Your body sends a vague, hollow, low-energy feeling. You read it as hunger. You eat a snack. But a glass of water would have fixed it. There is an easy 15-minute test that tells them apart. Before you log a snack in Burnie, try it.