RE: Duh moment

[Guest guest]

I think your duh moment is actually a

lightbulb moment! Intuitive eating is not just about what you eat but also how

it makes your body feel afterwards. Clearly you can’t eat too many

vegetables without upsetting your system and intuitively now you can respect

your body and know how to address eating vegetables. Well done! J

Janey xx

[Guest guest]

I can so relate to what you are saying. I have been working on

eating more nutritiously myself. This past week I ate a lot of

salad. I found myself absolutely ravenous! And the next day spent

a large part of the morning in the bathroom! I too have come to the

concusion after all these years that fresh vegetables, particularly

salads, my body does not like! I'm with you, I would much prefer

some steamed vegetables.

I love how IE allows us to experiment with different things and ways

of eating and then we can listen to our bodies and find what works

for us.

Alana

>

> I flirted with diet mentality again this month and decided instead

to

> focus on gentle nutrition since I made it through moving twice in 3

> months and buying a house and Christmas and work stress and in-law

> drama with a net gain of 2 pounds instead of my normal yearly 5-10.

>

> I immediately felt horribly sick and had terrible indigestion. I

> noted that one perfectly healthy meal passed through my body in 6.5

> hours, undigested. And I'm not sick!

>

> This time, instead of beating myself up or quitting eating

vegetables

> entirely, I stepped back and understood something about myself. I

> have an imbalance in my intestines and I can't easily digest raw

> vegetables. Every diet I've ever been on told me to make raw

> vegetables that basis of my eating plan.

>

> Not only was I restricting calories, I was *starving*. Every diet

> I've been on since age 11 has effectively been a fast! No WONDER I

> freaked out and overate high density foods! No WONDER I felt so

> horrible and crazy right away as soon as I even considered

cleaning up

> my eating. My body can't feel the difference between gentle

nutrition

> and prison camp rations! Not that other people haven't felt this

way,

> but my reactions have been visceral and extreme to the point where

I

> anti-dieted for months on straight french fries and burgers. I

felt

> icky and greasy and heavy but I just couldn't make myself eat a

> vegetable that wasn't a sauteed onion or pepper or covered with

cheese.

>

> I called my dad and asked him if he'd ever had this problem and

how he

> dealt with it. (He's a low carb dieter for sugar control.) He

said

> that he only eats one vegetable per meal, steamed, avoids anything

in

> the broccoli family, and makes up the difference with meat.

Clearly

> that won't work for me. But now that I understand that avoiding

> vegetables has been a *logical* thing my body wanted me to do, I

can

> start to really address it. Hopefully I can find ways to nourish

my

> body again so that I'm not living in a constant state of low grade

> malnutrition (which I think may be causing part of my overweight).

>