Re: Scared to give up the scale.... fruit...

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Hmmm, these posts just caused me to realize that fruit was formerly forbidden.

I've been buying all this delicious looking fruit lately and not eating it. I

thought I could live on fruit in the past, but probably because various diets

restricted it and therefore I just HAD to have it. Now, not so much. Sandarah

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> Subject: Re: Scared to give up the scale

> To: IntuitiveEating_Support

> Date: Monday, September 12, 2011, 11:39 AM

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> Sara,

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> This is in response to your question about whether people who eat intuitively

eat a lot of fruits and veggies.

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> I too, worry that I can't trust my body to let me know what it needs. My

default eating preference for many years has been anything cheesy or salty.

Fruits and veggies have been the LAST thing on my mind!!! One strange thing that

used to happen though, was that I had this weird sense that I wasn't ALLOWED to

have fruits and veggies. Like I would go to the fridge and have a brief flicker

of a thought like, " Gee, that apple looks good, " but then this thought was

almost instantaneously replaced with " You can't eat that. Eat some cheese " --

which I pretty much always did! Usually, I didn't usually eat more than one

veggie/fruit per day -- if that!

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> So the other day, I decided to eat completely intuitively, and made it a point

to give myself permission to choose veggies and fruits if (and only if) I wanted

them. I had gone to the store, and stocked up on lots of nutritious foods, so I

had a lot in my fridge.

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> When the end of the day came, I knew that I had eaten intuitively, and had

kept well within fullness/satiety, but I wanted to see how nutritious my choices

were, so I wrote a list of everything I had eaten that day. Not quantities, just

each item I had eaten. I was SHOCKED at how nutritious my choices were! Just so

you can see, I'm going to list everything I ate that day below, grouped by food

type. These are just the ingredients, many of these things were combined into

recipes.

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> blueberries (twice)

> red pepper

> spinach and arugula

> tomato

> kiwi

> vegetable juice

> grapefruit

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> tuna

> bacon

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> plain yogurt

> cheese

> cottage cheese

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> walnuts (twice)

> olives

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> rye bread (twice)

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> olive oil

> butter

> walnut oil

> balsamic vinegar

> pesto (twice)

> mayonnaise

> rice wine vinegar

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> dark chocolate

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> The strange thing is that I think I have to actually give myself permission to

like and choose fruits and veggies, and to realize that it's okay for me to eat

them. I have no idea why I would feel that way, except maybe to say that there

may be some part of me that just doesn't think I'm a person who wants fruits and

veggies, and therefore doesn't give myself permission to eat them. Weird, I

know, but there it is.

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> All this to say that I think learning to give yourself permission to like and

eat fruits and veggies is a process, but all in all I do think our bodies can be

trusted to tell us what we need -- if we will learn to listen and give ourselves

permission to change how we perceive ourselves (as a person who likes fruits and

veggies, as opposed to a person who doesn't).

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> Joanna

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