AW: Re: Need encouragement - feeling guilty

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Sigi,

what you write is so true! I'm going to a similar experience with cheese. Because cheese has so much fat I would either not let myself have it or severely beat me up when I did have it. Now that everything is 'legal' I eat cheese maybe twice or three times a week and mostly in small amounts. But when I had just allowed myself to go for it ... I had cheese morning, noon, and night.

By the way, the whole low crab/Atkins craze passed me buy because as I child I was put on Atkins (seventies). I remember how suddenly after that during the 80s carbohydrates became the miracle food and fat the devil. So when Atkins came back on the stage and I was supposed to now damn carbs and love fat again it all sounded ridiculous to me, finally. I felt like I was caught in a time warp ...

Diet lore is just ... absurd! (i want distinguish it by calling it science)

----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----Von: sigi_gee An: IntuitiveEating_Support Gesendet: Dienstag, den 6. Mai 2008, 12:48:59 UhrBetreff: Re: Need encouragement - feeling guilty

This is SO true. My "feared" foods were things like bread and pasta (can you tell an ex-Atkins dieter, kids?), and it took a lot of courage to let myself have them freely - and LOT of eating bread and pasta for a while. But eventually, if you've truly promised yourself you'll never restrict again and you MEAN it, and you'll always allow yourself to have bread and pasta whenever you feel like it .... well, you don't feel like it so much after a while. It loses its appeal; it's not "forbidden fruit" any more, the specialness has been taken away. It's just equivalent to any other food which you can choose from in order to meet your hunger. And now I haven't had pasta in quite a while - not because I won't let myself, but because I simply don't feel like it any more. I would have it in the fridge and just throw it away because it went past its use-by date! Bread I might have once a week - some really

good rye when I have lunch with my family. But I don't buy it for myself any more because I never feel like it the rest of the time and it just goes to waste. For someone who was a hard-core bread addict (again, I think, artificial craving caused by low carb dieting), that's quite an amazing change.S>> , this is VERY usual for most people who are switching from diet> to IE! I think its why legalization is so feared too. Eat as MUCH of> those forbidden foods as you want to?!? Horrors!! But I can tell you> that when I finally allowed myself to EAT chocolate it went thru these> stages for me - gobble down as fast as I could, eat any and every

type> of chocolate - taste & texture be damned, feel ashamed of eating> chocolate, chocolate chocolate all through out the day, loose desire> for chocolate, eating less chocolate, sick of chocolate and wanting> vegetables instead! Chocolate no longer a see-food (see chocolate, eat> it). >

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