Re: Think ahead to get ahead . . .

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All these years, I've loved cauliflower - until I ate some " mashed cauliflower "

my low-carbing friend served at Thanksgiving last year. Yuck! There IS a way

to make it icky! Give me my genuine mashed potatoes and nice steamed

cauliflower. I guess a lesson I have been learning on one food after another

lately is that fake substitutions just feel unsatisfying. Give me the real

thing! I'll eat far less and feel much more satisfied.

Jane

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> Subject: Re: Think ahead to get ahead . . .

> To: IntuitiveEating_Support

> Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011, 4:48 PM

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> It's funny, all that talk of substitutions... when I did a low carb diet,

there was an online support group where there was a lot of chatter about using

cauliflower to make mashed " potatoes " . I remember the highest compliment was,

" it's so good it doesn't even taste like cauliflower! "

> It just so happens that I ADORE cauliflower -- I could easily eat a whole head

of steamed or roasted cauliflower alone (if someone else prepared it) by myself.

So it's funny to me that it's a universally safe but loathed food for dieters.

> Potatoes, though, I could take or leave.

> I'm pleased to say that until this post I hadn't even considered how I will

eat on Thanksgiving Day!

> I'm happy to report, though, that after years of IE I have twice recently

ordered chocolate fondue in restaurants because I was still quite hungry, even

though my companion wasn't, and I ate all the fruit and chocolate, what I

wanted, and didn't touch the little cookies and weird gourmet marshmallows that

came with it. They are not forbidden... I just didn't want them. Mostly because

I don't like how they make me feel. But there was no internal struggle about it!

> Amazing. Finally.

> Best,

> Abby

> IE since 11/08

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[Guest guest]

All these years, I've loved cauliflower - until I ate some " mashed cauliflower "

my low-carbing friend served at Thanksgiving last year. Yuck! There IS a way

to make it icky! Give me my genuine mashed potatoes and nice steamed

cauliflower. I guess a lesson I have been learning on one food after another

lately is that fake substitutions just feel unsatisfying. Give me the real

thing! I'll eat far less and feel much more satisfied.

Jane

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> Subject: Re: Think ahead to get ahead . . .

> To: IntuitiveEating_Support

> Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011, 4:48 PM

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> It's funny, all that talk of substitutions... when I did a low carb diet,

there was an online support group where there was a lot of chatter about using

cauliflower to make mashed " potatoes " . I remember the highest compliment was,

" it's so good it doesn't even taste like cauliflower! "

> It just so happens that I ADORE cauliflower -- I could easily eat a whole head

of steamed or roasted cauliflower alone (if someone else prepared it) by myself.

So it's funny to me that it's a universally safe but loathed food for dieters.

> Potatoes, though, I could take or leave.

> I'm pleased to say that until this post I hadn't even considered how I will

eat on Thanksgiving Day!

> I'm happy to report, though, that after years of IE I have twice recently

ordered chocolate fondue in restaurants because I was still quite hungry, even

though my companion wasn't, and I ate all the fruit and chocolate, what I

wanted, and didn't touch the little cookies and weird gourmet marshmallows that

came with it. They are not forbidden... I just didn't want them. Mostly because

I don't like how they make me feel. But there was no internal struggle about it!

> Amazing. Finally.

> Best,

> Abby

> IE since 11/08

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[Guest guest]

BINGO!! I say this qualifies for that 'one thing' you gained from IE that was a

topic just a bit ago. Its soooo right and dang easy once you 'get' it.

Bravo and Congrats too :-) :-)

ehugs, Katcha

IEing since March 2007

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>I guess a lesson I have been learning on one food after another lately is that

fake substitutions just feel unsatisfying. Give me the real thing! I'll eat

far less and feel much more satisfied.

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> Jane

[Guest guest]

This is an interesting thing to think about, because I probably would have liked

that burger. But then I'm not really into hunks of beef all that much and

actually like veggie burgers. But this made me think of something that the

women who wrote Intuitive Eating were saying when they finally got to the health

section, and how, once you've done all the legalizing and recognizing when

you're hungry, and feeling your fullness, and savoring your meals, to consider

what's healthy, but that's always within the framework of your preferences. She

says that with cheese, she could take it or leave it, so she usually doesn't eat

it. It's healthier not to, and since she doesn't really care one way or the

other, it's an easy thing to do. I love bread, but don't usually put butter on

it, or syrup on pancakes, or sugar in my oatmeal, because I like them just fine

without them. But if I felt deprived, I would put those things on them. And

now, having made that list, I'm thinking gee, it looks like I really like

grains, which I do--the texture and flavor of them, all by themselves. So I'm

not leaving off the butter because I'm being virtuous, or counting calories, or

to lose weight, but because, for me, it doesn't add all that much, and unless I

get a distinct pleasure from it, I might as well just skip it.

I also eat neufchâtel cream cheese because I can't really tell the diffence

between it and full fat cream cheese, but I think fat free cream cheese is just

about the nastiest thing on earth.

But some of the " mock " things are quite good, in and of themselves. I guess it

is perhaps a shame that they're pretending to be something else. I like

baco-bits, and veggie burgers, and lentil-walnut loaf....mmmmmmmmm.

But no thanks on the mock mashed potatoes.....

Tilley

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[Guest guest]

yes, it will be online via teleconference so free and available to anyone

wherever they are. Wasn't sure if I should post information here or just let

people contact me.

Thanks Katcha.

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> > In a few weeks I'm going to be doing an training series (for free) on IE

through the holidays. If you're interested I'll let you know when it's

happening.

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> > The Pleasure Nutritionist

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[Guest guest]

yes, it will be online via teleconference so free and available to anyone

wherever they are. Wasn't sure if I should post information here or just let

people contact me.

Thanks Katcha.

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> > In a few weeks I'm going to be doing an training series (for free) on IE

through the holidays. If you're interested I'll let you know when it's

happening.

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> > The Pleasure Nutritionist

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[Guest guest]

yes, it will be online via teleconference so free and available to anyone

wherever they are. Wasn't sure if I should post information here or just let

people contact me.

Thanks Katcha.

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> > In a few weeks I'm going to be doing an training series (for free) on IE

through the holidays. If you're interested I'll let you know when it's

happening.

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> > The Pleasure Nutritionist

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