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- From: molnar@Bisco.CAnet.CA (Tom Molnar)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.diet
- Subject: Re: When Food Is Love
- Message-ID: <BxzxC5.DDv@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 03:50:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.222828.24636@inmet.camb.inmet.com> mazur@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur) writes:
- # In article <17526@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- # > robertsl@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Laurie Roberts) writes:
- # >>She suggested that we really enjoy eating
- # >>Eat in a calm place without distractions
- # >>Eat anything you want
- # >>Eat until satisfied
- #
- # >That's exactly what I did for the first 25 years of my life.
- # >At the end of that time I weighed 335 lbs and was gaining at
- # >the rate of 1 pound per month. Just how long was I supposed
- # >to continue trying this method?
- #
- # Laurie missed a key piece. We are supposed to eat for hunger reasons
- # only. No more stuffing our face because food is there or because we're
- # anxious or sad or happy.
-
- Yes, in another book, Roth briefly mentions that you have to listen to
- a tiny, timid, inner voice that says "I think you can stop eating
- now". She says that you have to learn to hear and recognize this
- voice, because it is very hard to hear. It usually always occurs
- before you finish eating what's on your plate, so you have to learn to
- leave food, unfinished, on the plate. I've begun to hear the voice,
- but it's hard to listen to it, especially when I tell myself "look,
- I've gotta eat this portion, I've measured it out, it's within the
- daily allowance!". Strangely enough, I usally don't *have* to clean my
- plate to appease my hunger. I guess it's another way of looking at
- food and eating.
-
- Can't we neutralize our tastebuds or something? Eating food shouldn't
- be such a pleasure. Someone screwed up engineering that part of our design.
-