Guest guest Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 Oh I just love the process of cooking, chopping, and gardening, too. It's such a cozy feeling to be able to fill the house with wonderful smells and preserve food for the winter. Back when I was struggling so much with my eating and believed that food was the problem, I had resolved sadly to stop concerning myself with recipes, gardening, and anything else to do with food. I read in a magazine I should stop watching cooking shows, reading anything about food, and that I should make myself the same meals every day so that I was not tempted to eat too much. I was supposed to remove food from my life. This was sad to me, but I thought it was the only way. What a change IE has made. Last night I came home from work and baked a fresh loaf of bread. I feel free to experiment with my cooking and have that in my life again. I realize that when you are obsessed with restricting food, your world shrinks so much.....MimiSubject: Re: Kitchen bluesTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Thursday, October 13, 2011, 6:49 PM I imagine that even though the process seems a little mechanical at the moment, that on that winter day when you open that jar of plums, it's going to be DELICIOUS. Yes, food is just food, but there are so many pleasures to be had from it, and if it's a chore putting up all that fruit at the moment, then you treat it like any other chore--and enjoy the aromas and the sights, and the companionship is you're doing it with anyone else, and those gleaming jars.... I love eating good meals, but I also love cooking, and chopping vegetables, and growing a garden, and even digging. The world is full of pleasures.... Tilley -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 I realize that when you are obsessed with restricting food, your world shrinks so much.....I am also finding this to be true. Grocery shopping had become an absolute nightmare for me because almost everything in the store was off-limits one way or the other, and i have five kids and a husband so what to do what to do? That feeling of looking at something on the shelf and realizing why this food too was unacceptable to buy was a very constricting feeling.After I found this group this week and read all the articles and decided it made all kinds of sense, i had to go grocery shopping. No food in the store was now criminal to me. I could buy anything i wanted to. I still didn't buy foods with artificial sweeteners as I do not like the taste of those and there is absolutely no benefit to me to buy them. But I did try some new things that I have previously had to pass up because of my 9000 rules about food. I had my 5yo with me, which often can be stressful. He has Down syndrome and doesn't speak clearly and doesn't always mind me, so unless I have him trapped in a grocery cart, I find myself getting irritated and frustrated. However, this time, I let him walk through the entire store, and I think since I wasn't so obsessed with restricting myself, I could give him the attention he needed, and just experiment with grocery shopping with joy.I knew my world had been shrinking almost to nothing, but I didn't know what to do about it. Love this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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