[ SECRET POST #2541 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2541 ⌋

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Comments

Re: How do you dessert?

[tei]

Maybe my use of the phrase "what your body wants" was misleading-- it's kind of new-agey and indistinct. What I really meant, as I said above, is learning the ability to react appropriately to stimulus without needing to rely on arbitrary rules. For instance, like everybody else, all I ever want to do when I get home from a long day is eat a giant bag of chips and vegetate on the couch. However, past experience has taught me that if I do that! I'll feel shitty, and I probably only want to do that because I haven't eaten anything that my body can use in a while. If I eat some real food, all of a sudden the urge to do that disappears. Sure, chips still taste good, but that not longer has to be the only driving force behind what I choose to eat. So, taking into account how certain foods make you feel when you're choosing what to eat is a really important skill.

And there aren't different hunger cues for different foods or anything, but there don't need to be. You don't need a special vegetable cue to tell you vegetables are good food, you already know that. And getting to a place where you're able to see good food as it's own reward, instead of "if I eat enough vegetable units I'll be allowed to have a dessert unit!" is what's actually going to make you happy with your eating habits in the long term.

In my experience the level of "want" associated with garbage food is a very superficial desire, and it's possible to get past it and begin associating good food with good feelings.

Then again, as I said, not a doctor, that's just what works best for me.

Re: How do you dessert?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but you're talking here, apparently, as someone who has the health privilege of being able to try and fail however many times it takes to get to that mental state.

As I said in the main post, I'm not diabetic, but I'm not far from it either. I don't have the luxury of working through hippy dippy food psychology. I need to be doing things now that make a quantifiable difference so that I can have a later that isn't seeped in illness.

So I'm glad this works for you, but I've got to say, the more I think about it, the more I really resent your original comment and the implication that people who want some structure in their food choices are just sheep-ish slaves to the diet industry who just need to learn how their body works.

Re: How do you dessert?

[tei]

I'm sorry that what I said wasn't helpful for you, and I hope things work out in a way you're happy with.