I've either rebelled, or come to my senses!! I'm in peri-menopause, it is my right!
In the past six months, I changed diets so many times that I recently stood in the grocery store in complete confusion about which plan I should follow and what I should, or shouldn't eat. That was my moment of clarity, my beginning of catharsis.
I realized was in a revolving door of diet, lose, binge, gain, new diet, lose, binge, gain. Sheesh!!! If that isn't the very definition of insanity, I sure don't know what is. No offense meant to those struggling with other mental challenges, but really, the diet mentality is an unstable state.
So, at still 50 lbs heavier than I know is healthy and comfortable for my 5'2" frame, now what? The solution, the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel came in the form of a forum thread called Intuitive Eating at www.3fatchicks.com . Diet brain said "Hey, we haven't tried that one yet, let's check it out" Insert evil cackle, lol...mwaaahhh!!
Well, whaddya know? It isn't a diet, so much as the way a child naturally eats. No, not mac 'n cheese and apple juice, but when, how much, what they want at any given time. If we as control freak parents (hey, I was one) let them, that is.
The point is, how many chronic dieters truly know anymore whether they are tummy hungry, or head hungry? Satisfied or stuffed? Stuffing feelings, or just the cheesecake because it is amaaaaazingly good? Do you want that banana because it is good, or because you've low-carbed yourself into banana fantasies?
I don't have a clue and that, my dears, is part of my food issues and explains why no diet will ever work to truly change, for life, a situation that has less to do with what you eat, than why you eat and why you stop eating. Hmmmm? Retraining body and mind to eat more consciously, huh? Okay, I'm in my 50's, but I can learn something new that's actually old. Not being one for intensive introspection...I'm more the don't over think, just get on with it and we'll figure it out as we go type, so we'll see where this leads.
If you are stuck in January's annual diet frenzy, get over to the above mentioned forum and seek out Intuitive Eating and/or search for books on the subject. There's a surprising number considering how little press this gets. Learn how you too can be part of taking down the diet industry, lol.
Enjoy!
In the past six months, I changed diets so many times that I recently stood in the grocery store in complete confusion about which plan I should follow and what I should, or shouldn't eat. That was my moment of clarity, my beginning of catharsis.
I realized was in a revolving door of diet, lose, binge, gain, new diet, lose, binge, gain. Sheesh!!! If that isn't the very definition of insanity, I sure don't know what is. No offense meant to those struggling with other mental challenges, but really, the diet mentality is an unstable state.
So, at still 50 lbs heavier than I know is healthy and comfortable for my 5'2" frame, now what? The solution, the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel came in the form of a forum thread called Intuitive Eating at www.3fatchicks.com . Diet brain said "Hey, we haven't tried that one yet, let's check it out" Insert evil cackle, lol...mwaaahhh!!
Well, whaddya know? It isn't a diet, so much as the way a child naturally eats. No, not mac 'n cheese and apple juice, but when, how much, what they want at any given time. If we as control freak parents (hey, I was one) let them, that is.
The point is, how many chronic dieters truly know anymore whether they are tummy hungry, or head hungry? Satisfied or stuffed? Stuffing feelings, or just the cheesecake because it is amaaaaazingly good? Do you want that banana because it is good, or because you've low-carbed yourself into banana fantasies?
I don't have a clue and that, my dears, is part of my food issues and explains why no diet will ever work to truly change, for life, a situation that has less to do with what you eat, than why you eat and why you stop eating. Hmmmm? Retraining body and mind to eat more consciously, huh? Okay, I'm in my 50's, but I can learn something new that's actually old. Not being one for intensive introspection...I'm more the don't over think, just get on with it and we'll figure it out as we go type, so we'll see where this leads.
If you are stuck in January's annual diet frenzy, get over to the above mentioned forum and seek out Intuitive Eating and/or search for books on the subject. There's a surprising number considering how little press this gets. Learn how you too can be part of taking down the diet industry, lol.
Enjoy!
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