Eating Cake

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Hi--

I just wanted to report an observation that I've noticed in the month since I've

started trying to eat more intuitively, and that has to do with cake. This is

birthday season at my house, and my mother wanted to make me a cake, and what I

REALLY wanted was a Germans chocolate cake, even though too much chocolate gives

me migraines, and then it was my son's birthday, and he wanted a carrot cake,

which I made, complete with cream cheese frosting (tons of both butter and cream

cheese in it), but the surprising thing to me was that, since I had decided that

anything was legal, I didn't actually ever " overeat " on the cake. I'd have a

small piece when I really wanted one, and then wasn't really interested the rest

of the time. One evening I had a small piece, and then thought, " I'd really

like to have some more, " so I did, and that was good. I felt no compulsion to

get it out again and again through the evening, or really any other time. I

would ask myself, at any given time when I was hungry, what I really felt like

eating, and occasionally it would be cake, but most often it would be something

else--like toast, or a bowl of chili, or an apple, or some crackers with peanut

butter and raisins on them. I can sure live with that.....and it's very nice to

know that I can have cake in the house and not be a raving lunatic around it....