Re: The Naturally Slender

[Guest guest]

> The second thing I

> noticed is that thin people often throw away food. There's another

> thing I have never been able to do. I will even eat things I don't

> like in order to avoid throwing it out! And I am referring to

moments

> when it is served to me, not if I take excess.

I have the same issue, with not wanting to waste food. It is not just

food, it extends through everything in my life, sometimes to nearly an

obsessive-compulsive level. I -have- to use things up completely if

it's possible, instead of throwing them away and feeling like I

am 'wasting' whatever it is.

Apparently this is a common thing, and I've read a lot of different

ideas. A main one that sticks in my head is to try to remember and to

remind yourself in this situation, with food at least, that even if

you don't 'waste' the food by throwing it away, you are still wasting

it because it is calories that your body doesn't need. So your body

is just going to throw it away, either through waste products or

through stored fat that isn't necessary. Either way it's going to be

wasted... an -extremely- hard fact for someone like you or I to

accept. I tell myself that I would rather it go in the garbage

> So those are my three ideas. I have decided to try to live the

> naturally slender lifestyle by listening to my body and eating when

I

> am hungry. I am going to stray a bit from my dietician's advice to

> eat something approximately every 3 hours.

I think that the ultimate goal, to be a 'naturally slender' person, is

to be so closely attuned to your body that you can feel when you need

fuel, and you can feel when you're full. This takes a lot of work, I

believe it's true that most of us have becomed so disconnected from

our own bodies that we don't even try to 'listen' to what's going on

with us anymore.

I wish you the best of luck with all of your endeavors! This group

has provided me a lot of great motivation and insight, I hope it does

the same for you.

Audrey

[Guest guest]

Welcome to IOWL community! These are amazing folks here. The nice thing is

we are all like minded and learning to walk as naturally slender people!!!

I know the recommendation to eat every 3 hours, but I am like you, I eat

when I am hungry. If I am not I don't.

welcome again!

LE

> Hello everyone!

>

> So I have just begun listening to 's podcasts and I just

> finished listening to the two parts about the secrets of the

> naturally slender. I am posting this mostly to find out what other

> people have observed with respect to their eating behaviours.

>

> So far I have come up with a few ideas. The first is that they can

> pass up dessert whenever they want. I personally cannot leave a place

> with dessert provided without trying at least half of a piece of pie,

> or a bite of cake, etc. I find it so weird. The second thing I

> noticed is that thin people often throw away food. There's another

> thing I have never been able to do. I will even eat things I don't

> like in order to avoid throwing it out! And I am referring to moments

> when it is served to me, not if I take excess. Because even the

> children in Africa cannot have the extra food served to me by the

> cafeteria ladies. And my final and most significant idea is that they

> can avoid thinking about food. For me, food is constantly on my mind.

> What I am eating, what I am going to eat, what I did eat... I just

> can't stop thinking about food and obviously that does not help the

> weight situation, since the more I think about it, the more I want it.

>

> So those are my three ideas. I have decided to try to live the

> naturally slender lifestyle by listening to my body and eating when I

> am hungry. I am going to stray a bit from my dietician's advice to

> eat something approximately every 3 hours.

>

> So if anyone else has any opinions, they would be greatly appreciated.

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