Re: Trying to honor my hunger

October 2, 2009

, awareness of what YOU want/are 'at' etc. is an excellent starting place.

For the greatest part, most of us start out with a strong focus on foods which

is only natural seeing that is what diet mentality hammered at us up until this

point.

Re-learning your hunger isn't only about what you eat, and even 'how much' you

eat - as MEASURED (amount/type). The first big 'trick' that could help you most

is to see if you can re-acquaint with YOUR 'measuring' tool - body hungers. The

legalizing process helps to re-train your HEAD that FOOD IS FOOD. What is 'good'

food for me is those that I enjoy eating (taste/texture) AND that my body enjoys

too (receives well). 'Bad' foods are those that I either don't like - taste -

AND/OR my body doesn't appreciate receiving.

Best to you, Katcha

IEing since March 2007

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> I have been trying really hard to honor my hunger and to not worry so much

about healthy foods and gaining weight, but it's hard. I went to the grocery

store last night and gave myself permission to get some things I normally don't

buy. About a year ago, I gave up high fructose corn syrup and anything that

contains partially hydrogenated fats. This limits what " treats " i can buy. I

wanted i cream but all the kinds i like had high fructose and some had partially

hydrogenated fats. I finally got breyers natural mint chocolate chip ice cream,

some dove chocolates and Chex mix. I had a health nut smoothie from Tropical

smoothie ( I never tried this before, since it was too high in calories) for

dinner and then hit the gym. when I got home and showered I was hungry so I had

some chex mix and chocolate, and some fresh pineapple. I ended up eating too

much and felt sick. I had about two handfuls of chex mix, a good size bowl of

pineapple and about eight dove chocolates. I think the chex mix was too sweet.

I told my son he could have the rest of the bag. i normally eat dark chocolate,

but thought maybe i was doing that for diet reasons, so i bought the milk

chocolate, it was too sweet also. So i learned I really don't like Check mix

sweet and salty, even though I crave it sometimes and that I really do just

prefer dark chocolate.

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> This morning I had a glass of skim milk before leaving the house and have had

half and apple so far. I just decided not that i am hungry enough to eat my

oatmeal.

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