Re: A bit more info about me and a question re: hormonal cravings

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hi Joanna,I don't have any brilliant suggestions... except to try and listen to the food desires, and fill them, and just try to eat mindfully -- slowly, savoring the food, and not multi-tasking.

but it's not easy!the only thing i can think of is that maybe your body knows what it's doing? maybe there's a reason you are eating more than usual? maybe your body needs extra fat/sugar/salt/whatever it is that you tend to consume at this time?

what if you trusted your body's innate wisdom?hope this helps,abby

 

Thanks again to all of you who responded to my question about breakfast. I've only been doing IE (this time around) for about 3 days, but quite a few years ago, I practiced eating intuitively for a couple of years. During that time, I lost all the weight I needed to rather quickly and kept it off for several years. Unfortunately, I gradually reverted to not listening to my body, and guess what? I gained the weight again!!! What a surprise!

I guess eating intuitively is a bit like like riding a bicycle; if you don't do it for awhile, you may be a little unsteady at first, but you don't really forget how. I admit I am still having to unlearn a lot of thought processes that I have developed over the ensuing years about good/bad foods, counting calories etc., and I still don't trust my body completely to let me know what I do and don't need. I'm sure it will be a struggle for awhile, but it feels SO GOOD not to be obsessing over what I'm eating anymore!!!

Now I have another question for you all: how do you handle hormonal cravings? Twice a month I pretty much lose my mind and want to eat anything and everything in sight...especially chocolate and carbs. I don't have any problem with the thought of giving in to cravings in general (as long as I don't go beyond full/satisfied), but the problem is that there doesn't seem to be a full/satisfied switch when I'm in the clutches raging hormones. I feel completely out of control and yucky.

Thankfully, I'm not in the clutches of raging hormones at the moment. I just want to give some thought to how to best approach the situation before one of those times strike again and my mind and will turn to mush! ;-)

Have any of you found a good way to handle this type of situation?

By the way, sorry I didn't include my name last time. It's Joanna.