Re: Further contemplations--I wasn't done

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....but on this stupid iPad, I couldn't see a way to scroll down to the end of my

message to finish typing it.

I was GOING to say that reading everyone's posts here has been enormously

helpful, telling me that I'm not crazy and that it is possible to return to a

sane way of eating. My partner hardly ever thinks about food. He's

hypoglycemic, and needs to be sure that he has some high-quality protien with

every meal, and nothing with sugar or highly processed grains or potatoes in it

(or he really does pass out), but other than that, he spends very little time

with food. He'll forget to eat meals if he's busy, and " make do " with the most

minimal of nut, rolled oats and raisin snacks. He weighs exactly what he

weighed in college, and is way busy with lots of cool things. I can't imagine

totally being like that, but it seems pretty healthy to me.

Thanks for listening(reading), and for sharing all your thoughts.

Tilley

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> I hope no one minds me doing my " processing " here, but I can't think of anyone

in-person who'd really be interested, but I was thinking about when I lost 55

pounds a number of years ago, and I'm pretty sure that it wasn't from dieting.

I had been having an inner ear problem and was dizzy and had headaches a fair

amount of time, and finally got it diagnosed, and other than a very mild

diuretic, I was supposed to severely limit my salt intake, and that's what I

did. It was really hard a first, because is seemed like the world was one big

salt party. I would walk through the grocery store and feel like crying because

everything was loaded with salt. But then I started figuring our what I could

eat (or rather, more importantly, what I LIKED to eat) the didn't have much

salt, and over two and a half years dropped down to what I had been in college,

where I stayed for about five years, without really much effort. But then I

kind of abandoned the low-salt thing, and experienced a whole bunch of stress

with my kids finishing high school and entering college and my job, that my

weight started creeping up, and so I did Weight Watchers at Work, and though I

lost the weight that had crept on, I think it totally messed up my relationship

with food, because in the yer since I stopped I gained back everything I lost

plus 100% more (that's 100% of what I lost, not of my total weight), which was

alarming enough in and of itself, but also I just really hate thinking about my

weight and food all the time, which is what that year has been all about, and

that's really no fun at all.

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> I think I have actually been a fairly intuitive eater for most of my life.

Certainly as a child and young adult. The adult weight gain ( up until I was

diagnosed with the inner ear problem, which was not, I don't think, related to

weight) can all be rather readily explained, and I wasn't obsessing about food

or weight at all during those ten years. In fact, it was always somewhat of a

surprise to discover, usually at the doctor's, that I had gained weight.

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> So I really think I ought to be able to get back to that kind of eating. I've

been thinking about those two and a half years, and how enjoyable it was to

prepare myself food that I loved that was low-salt, and how much I relished

those meals, and how easy it was to choose not to have super-salty things. I

think I might be headed back in that direction.

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> In the month and a half since i've been aware of IE, I've been having things I

haven't had really much for years--like toast for a snack, and muffins from the

co-op, and other baked goods, and while it hasn't,t felt like over eating per

se, I'm really starting to crave the low-salt, high veggies that I used to so

enjoy, and my body is telling me that it wants steamed veggies with a balsamic

vinegar or lemon-based sauce instead of toast after school

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