Playing with play food
Intuitive eating describes food that is not necessarily high in nutrients, but is often just yummy, as ‘play’ food. Many items on my forbidden foods list are play foods. I wrote about my experience with Fritos. Later that day, I experimented with a snack sized Almond Joy. As before, I waited until I was hungry…
Fritos
So, after I blogged, I added Fritos to my list. I really wanted to try them and was hungry. So I bought a bag. I tasted and smelled them carefully. I took several bites. And this is what I found. I don’t actually like Fritos. Who knew?!
Getting to know and playing nice with food
In order to make peace and become comfortable with food, Tribole and Resch (Intuitive Eating) suggest the following: Pay attention to foods you find appealing and make a list of them. Make a check by the foods you currently eat and then circle the foods you’ve been restricting (the rest of food on the list). Give…
What Chatty Kathy tries to tell me about making peace with food…
So the idea is that I need to learn that food is food. It does not have power, it is neither good nor bad, and when I am hungry – I should eat. You will just keep eating and eating and eating! When you ate that before, you ate too many pieces, too much! If…
Learning to say Yes or why saying No doesn’t work
While I am still working to listen for my hunger cues, eat when I am hungry and stop when I am comfortably full (old habits are proving hard to break), I am also allowing myself to let go of dieting. This is proving to be difficult, mainly because of Chatty Kathy and the unhelpful messages…
The biological, psychological, and emotional impacts of dieting
Yep, I am still talking about dieting. I realize that vilifying a process that has served many for so long will upset some of you. While I do hope that my thoughts and writing will help some to make good decisions that fit their lives well, I do not expect to sway everyone and probably…
While I may be not be on a diet, what other diet-like behaviors do I need to avoid?
As I march through my eliminating the diet mentality week, I continue to find traps that I need to avoid. In my readings, I am finding that not being on an official diet is not the only way we (I) can fall into a diet trap. Tribole and Resch call this “pseudo-dieting”. This includes: “Counting macros”…
A few random thoughts about hunger, Chatty Kathy, diets.
So, I am learning to honor my hunger. I am trying to eat only when I am hungry and trying to eat what my body tells me it wants. Yesterday, I took a small cookie to eat after my lunch (a colleague brought them in), but found that I was no longer hungry after finishing…
Those sneaky diet thoughts.
Originally posted on Stepping into yourself:
There are times when everything seems so easy. Leaving behind the diet mentality seems the most simple thing. Eating what I want can be done without thought or guilt. Then there are times when something has struck me again and I find myself going back over old ground with…
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